SLI vs. Crossfire in HL2

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster

Originally posted by: Ackmed

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Geforce 7800 series = 12113

ATi X1800 = 872

This sort of tells you something about why the newly released 7900 series is already showing signs of being out of stock.

Guess the 6600GT is still king of mid range cards. (Many mustve jumped from 9600 series as the above poster mentioned)

The 7800 series was out well before the X1800 series was, and was a pretty big upgrade over the 68xx cards. Obviously its going to have a lot more cards sold. Same goes for SLI, its been out a lot longer (about a year) than Crossfire. Again, obviously its going to have more users.

One thing the steam survey does convey, is that they should be selling games on DVD only, no more of this 4-cd crap, and charging $10 more for the DVD. When its cheaper to make in the first place.

Well, the X1800 series been out for 4~5 months. But the difference is WAY too big. I guess its the 7800GT thats given NV the edge in the high end market.

I think most of this is simply because nvidia just plain got the cards to the market earlier. The 6600GT being a prime example. People wanted a reasonably priced card with a solid boost of horsepower over the last generation for midrange. Nvidia provided it first and people flocked to it.

Another thing that I think stung ati here was their "to many different parts" problem. People have been saying the 6600GT was good since the day it came out and its been out there, available, good and with the same name ever sense. I think ati's million different product types, many of which seem to overlap is hurting them. People have been burned by SEs and nvidia is dirtying up XT now...so they probably smell a trap from all the different products even if one isn't there.

Also...ati's equivilent parts are quite often more expensive. I like ati well enough, but if their part has the same performance as an nvidia part and costs more...who do you think I'm going to go with?

Ati makes some good parts, but I have to question some of their business decisions.

However, if those cards had sold well I probably wouldn't have been able to snag this great deal on a x850xt!

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Zebo

2000 SP4 1.53 %

LOL, I thought that too. Its not quite as bad though...there's seperate catagories for SP3 and SP2...but I think the combined force is still only like 2-3%.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Finally more Geforce 6800s than Radeon 9800s.

And Creative gets owned in terms of marketshare.

 

[Yreka]

Originally posted by: DeathReborn
ATI have a mountain to climb to reach equal market share for MultiGPU setups it seems.

Well I can only speak for myself, but I would never consider Xfire, or even a stand alone ATI mobo until they do some major work in the driver department.

Its too bad too, I really like the X1900 series hardware. I would not be opposed to owning two of them.
Its just too bad they didnt work with XG Forceware drivers and NF4 Mobos.

Come on guys, cant we take this whole "Unified Driver" thing just a step further

 

[Drayvn]

I would have thought about half those computers are pre built with nVidia cards inside already. So maybe that might be why theres a large amount of nVidias in them???

 

[Powermoloch]

5200 !

 

[sodcha0s]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Windows "updates" with Firefox

That has to be the single greatest and most helpful link I have ever seen in a sig!


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