here comes the grouper.

[rise]

ripped from the video section

at least its starting to show up a bit. price appears to be early ultra-d level- ~145 usd. i don't know why the crossfire is 30% less 😕

i want one of these with an x2 3800+.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Meh. I'll stick with nForce4.

 

[Diasper]

Originally posted by: rise4310
ripped from the video section

at least its starting to show up a bit. price appears to be early ultra-d level- ~145 usd. i don't know why the crossfire is 30% less 😕

i want one of these with an x2 3800+.

heh, yeah I noticed that as well - I think we can say they got the prices mixed up.

tekheads.co.uk have had the DFI Crossfire board on pre-order for a while already - and it's £157 so I think we can say they've got their prices mixed up.

Was thinking if you ordered it now at the current price would they have to honour it?

 

[rise]

could be, you're in England right? worth a shot.

i've vowed to try a different board other than the dfi, lol. i love 'em but i really want to try this grouper.

 

[Diasper]

Originally posted by: rise4310
could be, you're in England right? worth a shot.

i've vowed to try a different board other than the dfi, lol. i love 'em but i really want to try this grouper.

hehe though I suspect you can gte the best of both worlds ...since DFI are coming out with Crossfire, they'll probably be coming out with a Grouper too 😉

and yeah to being from the UK 🙂

 

[raildogg]

I was planning a DFI Lanparty, Epox or Asus A8N-e for my next system, which will be overclocked.

But it looks like I'll get the Sapphire Pure Innovation 🙂

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: raildogg
I was planning a DFI Lanparty, Epox or Asus A8N-e for my next system, which will be overclocked.

But it looks like I'll get the Sapphire Pure Innovation 🙂

I hate being the guinea pig though. But someone has to 😉. What I generally do is wait about a month for them to get the kinks worked out with BIOS releases.

 

[rise]

as author and keeper of the "ultimate mobo thread" i expect you to have board #2 (right after mine 😛 )

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy

Originally posted by: raildogg
I was planning a DFI Lanparty, Epox or Asus A8N-e for my next system, which will be overclocked.

But it looks like I'll get the Sapphire Pure Innovation 🙂

I hate being the guinea pig though. But someone has to 😉. What I generally do is wait about a month for them to get the kinks worked out with BIOS releases.

i will not be your guinea pig :evil:😀

i'll wait for more reviews to pop up. especially consumer reviews so that will tell me of the potential problems :thumbsup:

but i have a feeling this board is tops for the 939 socket. for features, for performance and for overclocking

 

[Diasper]

Just thinking,

DFI Karajan Module + Hi-def sound = great low-cpu utilisation goodness

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: rise4310
as author and keeper of the "ultimate mobo thread" i expect you to have board #2 (right after mine 😛 )

Oh ! the pressure. Feel the damn pressure 😉. However I'm a bit more careful with my money (although all of us at AnandTech forums know that nothing in our life is more important than hardware right 😉?).

Edit: And I love the title of the post. It sounds like there's a nuclear attack coming soon... "BEHOLD: TEH GROUPAR!"

-The Pentium Guy

 

[Diasper]

Having read up some more the SLi version hasn't got the same overclocking options as the Grouper - rather the Grouper will be exceptionally price gouged it seems.

We will probably in fact see a Grouper Crossfire later down the road.

Grouper isn't for what with it lacking enough PCI-E slots and primarily the future universal 4x PCI-E

Maybe future revision of the ATI chipset will have what I want.

 

[rise]

well, i'm not so much bothered by the lack of a 4x pci-e as i am by the price.

169? ah well, we shall see. always the ultra-d (again) maybe i'll try the epox.