X1600 and X1300 don't need Master Cards

[KristopherKubicki]

Not many details, but there isn't much to say. Article text here:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2594

Kristopher

 

[CalamitySymphony]

Heh? Why sorry to Rollo?

Seems kinda pointless anyway... those cards make me sick

 

[Powermoloch]

"Take that mister president!"

 

[Soccerman06]

Originally posted by: CalamitySymphony
Heh? Why sorry to Rollo?

Seems kinda pointless anyway... those cards make me sick

Because Rollo is an Nvidia fanboy, anything good for ATI is bad for Rollo IMO.

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: CalamitySymphony
Heh? Why sorry to Rollo?

Seems kinda pointless anyway... those cards make me sick

Because Rollo is an Nvidia fanboy, anything good for ATI is bad for Rollo IMO.

lol yeah

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: Powermoloch

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: CalamitySymphony
Heh? Why sorry to Rollo?

Seems kinda pointless anyway... those cards make me sick

Because Rollo is an Nvidia fanboy, anything good for ATI is bad for Rollo IMO.

lol yeah

Rollo also sounds like an nvidia PR
Edit... just kidding.. some of you take me seriously :! rollo is cool

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: Powermoloch

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: CalamitySymphony
Heh? Why sorry to Rollo?

Seems kinda pointless anyway... those cards make me sick

Because Rollo is an Nvidia fanboy, anything good for ATI is bad for Rollo IMO.

lol yeah

Rollo also sounds like an nvidia PR

Please, if Rollo is NV PR, we have at least two from ATI on this forum.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Matt2

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: Powermoloch

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: CalamitySymphony
Heh? Why sorry to Rollo?

Seems kinda pointless anyway... those cards make me sick

Because Rollo is an Nvidia fanboy, anything good for ATI is bad for Rollo IMO.

lol yeah

Rollo also sounds like an nvidia PR

Please, if Rollo is NV PR, we have at least two from ATI on this forum.

lol, we dont even have to name names

 

[KristopherKubicki]

Hahah OK - stop talking about Rollo or I'm going to request a lock.

Kristopher

 

[Killrose]

So what kind of performance do you get with two X1300's?, X800GTO like performance maybe? And don't worry, Rollo will find something wrong with this news I'm sure.

 

[rise]

doesn't the 6600 outperform the 1300?

 

[Ronin]

Folks, back on topic.

This is ATi's response, imo, to a bridgeless SLi environment. I'm glad to see them actually taking some other cues from nVidia about what works and what doesn't (also goes to show that they had the right idea to begin with).

I guess the other plus is it's one less thing to be backordered on.

 

[Gstanfor]

I'm guessing R580 will not require master cards either (RB530 is based more on R580 than R520, not sure about the RV515).

It would be interesting to know if a crossfire motherboard is still required or if you can use nForce4.

This is yet another reason not to invest in R520 IMHO. If you must have ATi wait for R580. R520 is just poor design no matter which way you look at it.

 

[swatX]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor
I'm guessing R580 will not require master cards either (RB530 is based more on R580 than R520, not sure about the RV515).

It would be interesting to know if a crossfire motherboard is still required or if you can use nForce4.

This is yet another reason not to invest in R520 IMHO. If you must have ATi wait for R580. R520 is just poor design no matter which way you look at it.

R580 still needs a crossfire card.

 

[CPlusPlusGeek]

6600 GT rolls an x1300

6800 Rolls the x1600

sad really

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Matt2
Please, if Rollo is NV PR, we have at least two from ATI on this forum.

QFT, and duly noted that there are far more than 2 ATI talking heads on this forum

 

[jasonja]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: Matt2
Please, if Rollo is NV PR, we have at least two from ATI on this forum.

QFT, and duly noted that there are far more than 2 ATI talking heads on this forum

Rollo isn't exactly a lone member of the green team here either!

 

[jiffylube1024]

Truth be told, the X1600 looks like a bit of a sucky card anyways - it can't even equal an over a year old 6800GT. Still, I'd love to see some crossfire benchies of dual X1600's. They could be a little value surprise!

As for the X1300 - are they even allowing Crossfire for the card? If so, my only question is why???

 

[crazydingo]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Truth be told, the X1600 looks like a bit of a sucky card anyways - it can't even equal an over a year old 6800GT. Still, I'd love to see some crossfire benchies of dual X1600's. They could be a little value surprise!

As for the X1300 - are they even allowing Crossfire for the card? If so, my only question is why???

X1600 reminds me of the X600, decent performance but nothing spectacular about it.

 

[Topweasel]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Truth be told, the X1600 looks like a bit of a sucky card anyways - it can't even equal an over a year old 6800GT. Still, I'd love to see some crossfire benchies of dual X1600's. They could be a little value surprise!

As for the X1300 - are they even allowing Crossfire for the card? If so, my only question is why???

If the 6200 support SLI then the same should be suggested of ATi and their absolute bottom end. Also you use multi-monitor development and speed doesn't matter wouldn't you want to once and awhile SLI it and have at least some chance of playing games.

 

[ZobarStyl]

Great job by ATi to get Crossfire away from the Master Card fiasco, but what's the reasoning behind adding it to these cards? Most people firmly agree that multicard is the realm of the ultra high end, not two mid end cards, much less two bargain basement cards like the x1300. Good idea overall, but bad call implementing in these useless cards.

 

[Munky]

Originally posted by: ZobarStyl
Great job by ATi to get Crossfire away from the Master Card fiasco, but what's the reasoning behind adding it to these cards? Most people firmly agree that multicard is the realm of the ultra high end, not two mid end cards, much less two bargain basement cards like the x1300. Good idea overall, but bad call implementing in these useless cards.

But the important thing is that x-fire can work without master cards, so if it works on the x1600 and x1300 then hopefully we can see it work on the r580 without master cards.

 

[Ronin]

Originally posted by: ZobarStyl
Great job by ATi to get Crossfire away from the Master Card fiasco, but what's the reasoning behind adding it to these cards? Most people firmly agree that multicard is the realm of the ultra high end, not two mid end cards, much less two bargain basement cards like the x1300. Good idea overall, but bad call implementing in these useless cards.

Because the low/midrange is exactly where they make most of their money.

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: Topweasel

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Truth be told, the X1600 looks like a bit of a sucky card anyways - it can't even equal an over a year old 6800GT. Still, I'd love to see some crossfire benchies of dual X1600's. They could be a little value surprise!

As for the X1300 - are they even allowing Crossfire for the card? If so, my only question is why???

If the 6200 support SLI then the same should be suggested of ATi and their absolute bottom end. Also you use multi-monitor development and speed doesn't matter wouldn't you want to once and awhile SLI it and have at least some chance of playing games.

But Nvidia does not support SLI on the 6200, hence why they created the 6600LE part.
But I'll be sure to get around that in a week when I get my second 6200

 

[Capt Caveman]

Dumb question, it's good news that they can go without the mastercard on the x1300 and x1600 but why can't they with the x1800?