Crossfire question

[NightmareXX]

If you get a master card for a crossfire series GFX card, is the performance 2x greater? Or 4x? Or maybe not that noticable?

Or is the improvement only noticeable at higher resolutions?

 

[Wakinglimb]

More noticable it higher resolutions, but never close to 2x the performance. It's far better to go for the best single card solution you can afford, then add anotehr card later, than it is to buy two cheaper cards and crossfire or SLI them.

 

[NightmareXX]

Yea thats what I was thinking. Get an X1800XT 512MB possibly on a crossfire mobo to start with, then if i wanted to, upgrade to the master card edition and watch it eat its way through any GFX application.

 

[Wakinglimb]

That's the way to do it!

 

[Antx777]

Won't that "AMD XP 2000+" you have be less than powerfull for the job??

 

[Mr Gimp]

Won't that "AMD XP 2000+" you have be less than powerfull for the job??

Err...No....as he obviously isn't going to be using a socket A processor with a PCI Express based motherboard

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Err...No....as he obviously isn't going to be using a socket A processor with a PCI Express based motherboard

Thats only because he can't.

 

[iamgud]

You wll need to get a 1900xt, as it will be hard to get a 1800 master a few months down the line.

 

[NightmareXX]

Lol I'm hoping to get an opty 165 and OC it

An X1900 you say eh?

 

[ACESHIGH]

you could get the X1800XT mastercard 1st - if you will go crossfire.
because the standard X1800XT's can be found all over.

 

[FrankJH]

Didnt Gibbo say recently that X1800's are soon to be phased out?

Might be recalling it wrongly of course

 

[LoadsaMoney]

x1800's have already been phased out, they were stopped when the x1900's came out, the x1800's that are still available are just the last stocks, once they are gone thats it.