X1800GTO dongleless Crossfire review

[thilanliyan]

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There is a slight performance hit without the dongle. I wanna see how dongleless crossfire on X1900GT/XT/XTX performs.

 

[thilanliyan]

 

[redbox]

Looks nice but I want a card or cards that competes with the 1800xt but still provides the ATI IQ and speed the 1800xt does. That is when I might go with ATI's dual gpu solution. I also don't like the mastercard thing. 1800xt's 512mb are about $300 but the master cards for them are still about $500.

 

[Shadowmage]

They can already do it, iirc.

 

[cmrmrc]

Originally posted by: redbox
Looks nice but I want a card or cards that competes with the 1800xt but still provides the ATI IQ and speed the 1800xt does. That is when I might go with ATI's dual gpu solution. I also don't like the mastercard thing. 1800xt's 512mb are about $300 but the master cards for them are still about $500.

ATI have the x1800 crossfire reFurb version for 350$us

 

[BlacKJesuS]

hehe.....you said "dongleless"

 

[CaiNaM]

Originally posted by: Shadowmage
They can already do it, iirc.

i've never seen it stated anywhere they can. everything i've seen specifically states x1800gto and lower. not sure why....

 

[hmorphone]

From what I saw ATI claimed they didn't have enough bandwith on the PCIE bus to handle the higher amount of data passed back and forth from the better cards. At least that's the way I understood it...

 

[Ackmed]

Thats how I understood it too, and its one of the reasons why Super AA is much faster than SLI AA. Its a highend card only issue for now though, as I understand it. Im all for dongleless. It doesnt bother me, some people dont seem to like it. Ive messed with my dongle once, when I installed it the first time several months ago.

 

[thilanliyan]

I believe it was ZStream from this forum that had 2 X1800XLs in Crossfire with a beta catalyst driver.

 

[redbox]

Originally posted by: cmrmrc

Originally posted by: redbox
Looks nice but I want a card or cards that competes with the 1800xt but still provides the ATI IQ and speed the 1800xt does. That is when I might go with ATI's dual gpu solution. I also don't like the mastercard thing. 1800xt's 512mb are about $300 but the master cards for them are still about $500.

ATI have the x1800 crossfire reFurb version for 350$us

Really?! Do you have a link I could look at?