RD580

[nitromullet]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131004

damn... that's not cheap at all... doubtful that it's that much better than the A8R-MVP, it sure is prettier though...

 

[deepinya]

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=OTMwLDMsLGhlbnRodXNpYXN0

Page 3 if it doesnt bring it up.

"When we put in the Radeon X1800 XT MasterCard and enabled CrossFire for Quake 4, we immediately had a major game problem........ Under the display settings in Catalyst Control Center, we have the refresh rate set to 75Hz when at 1600x1200, which our monitors fully support. We have never had a problem with 75Hz at 1600x1200 with any other cards in any other games. We set the refresh back down to an ugly 60Hz at 1600x1200 and then found Quake 4 to work normally in CrossFire mode. Therefore, it seems there is a bug with CrossFire enabled where you cannot force a higher refresh than 60Hz in Quake 4. Keep this in mind if you are a heavy Quake 4 player."

 

[deepinya]

Is it q4, rd480 or crossfire in general?

 

[fierydemise]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131004

damn... that's not cheap at all... doubtful that it's that much better than the A8R-MVP, it sure is prettier though...

The MVP started almost expensive but, it droped pretty quickly

 

[fierydemise]

Originally posted by: deepinya
Is it q4, rd480 or crossfire in general?

It looks like a tester errorNotice how AT tests at 1920x1400 and 2048x1536 without issue, or it might be a q4 error because thats the only place I've heard of this issue, it could also be a driver error because those tests were run with the 5.12s the 6.2s are now available.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: deepinya
Is it q4, rd480 or crossfire in general?

I can't test that for you. I have an LCD... Although, that does remind me that I do need to install Q4...

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Hard, got a pretty good boost; http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=OTY5LDEsLGhlbnRodXNpYXN0

Hard|POS could'nt review a mobo to save thier life.

WTF is up with putting different configs in there? Talk about "apples to oranges".. bunch of lazy curs over there

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Hard, got a pretty good boost; http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=OTY5LDEsLGhlbnRodXNpYXN0

Hard|POS could'nt review a mobo to save thier life.

WTF is up with putting different configs in there? Talk about "apples to oranges".. bunch of lazy curs over there

Exactly. It looks like they set it up to make the ATI board look faster.

The Nforce board has a 4000+ and a 4800+, both at 2.4 GHz with 1 MB L2 cache, none of the benchmarks utilize dual core. The RD580 board has an FX-60, 2.6 GHz with 1 MB L2 cache per core. Single core Vs single core, of course the 4000+ and 4800+ will have the same results while the FX-60 will be ahead.

 

[Zebo]

Differnt ram, different timings, different CPUs, differnt video cards only thing the same is harddrive and that has least impact.

Way you compare motherboads is leave everything static and just switch boards out.. This is like 5th grade science here folks which Hard|POS seems oblivious to.

Or just lazy like I said using benchmarks from over the years thrown in there and really only tested the ASUS this time.