Now for.....Quad Crossfire

jrodga2k5 · 5 Jun 2007 at 14:31

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1279&Itemid=1

So 4x2600XT's in a quad crossfire setup.....wonder how it will all work out, hopefully not like the debacle that was the Quad SLi thing.

Lanz · 5 Jun 2007 at 14:35

Having this on a AMD system seems like a total waist of time, as if anyone is stupid enough to fork out for 4 cards, I'm sure they'd also want the fastest CPU to go with them.

Mark47 · 5 Jun 2007 at 14:40

It is an AM2+ board, I think that means it will work with the new AMD chips.

Boogle · 5 Jun 2007 at 14:41

The board supports 4 PCI-E 16x cards - but CrossFire doesn't. They had the cards running individually, not in CF.

Plus if you look at the board, two spaced out slots are a different colour, clearly they're designed for real CrossFire

waso_dude · 5 Jun 2007 at 15:03

why just why?

SLi has been proved not to be cost effective.

Mad_Jay · 5 Jun 2007 at 15:39

That looks like a failure to begin with tbh..

mysticsniper · 5 Jun 2007 at 15:42

jrodga2k5 said:
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1279&Itemid=1

So 4x2600XT's in a quad crossfire setup.....wonder how it will all work out, hopefully not like the debacle that was the Quad SLi thing.

ATi must be getting desperate, but you never know that might be able to keep up with one Nvidia 8800 640Mb GTS card

SS-89 · 5 Jun 2007 at 15:45

mysticsniper said:
ATi must be getting desperate, but you never know that might be able to keep up with one Nvidia 8800 640Mb GTS card

lol quad crossfire with 2600xt's makes no sense surely wouldn't be a good bang for buck purchase.

mysticsniper · 5 Jun 2007 at 15:57

SS-89 said:
lol quad crossfire with 2600xt's makes no sense surely wouldn't be a good bang for buck purchase.

Its more a willy waving statement than anything else

Boogle · 5 Jun 2007 at 15:57

It is made by Gigabyte NOT AMD.

CrossFire does not support 4 cards. Additionally if you look at the slots the two slots for CrossFire are coloured differently.

It just happens to have 4 PCI-E 16x slots physically. Much like the 4x PCI-E 16x slots that Gigabyte had for one of their other boards.

IceShock · 5 Jun 2007 at 16:06

will be nice if they made the board for core2duo and it performs well, id like to have a crossfire 16x motherboard instead of x8 x8 or 16x x4 etc

lay-z-boy · 5 Jun 2007 at 16:14

Just think of the number of high res screens you could run

Schnippzle · 5 Jun 2007 at 16:55

I think the main point of this little experiment was to see if they could integrate one of the cards as a physics card. And Im sure that what they have put on show isnt final specs

Im hoping to see 4 x 2900 XT's soon.

truebluecfc · 5 Jun 2007 at 18:22

How silly... like anyone with a bit of brains would buy 4 gfx cards, pointless.

SS-89 · 5 Jun 2007 at 18:25

Schnippzle said:
I think the main point of this little experiment was to see if they could integrate one of the cards as a physics card. And Im sure that what they have put on show isnt final specs Im hoping to see 4 x 2900 XT's soon.

Lmao with the dual slot cooling that would be one large motherboard to accomodate them.

P373 · 5 Jun 2007 at 19:45

i think 2 of those slots are pcie 2 compatible, i think ive read it somewhere. Could be wrong though...

jrodga2k5 · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:33

Schnippzle said:
I think the main point of this little experiment was to see if they could integrate one of the cards as a physics card. And Im sure that what they have put on show isnt final specs Im hoping to see 4 x 2900 XT's soon.

well they would all need to be watercooled instead of their dual slot cooling

means a few rads and pumps lol

Cyber-Mav · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:47

mysticsniper said:
Its more a willy waving statement than anything else

problem is they just waving 4 small willys to begin with.

single 8800gts is the way.

dante6491 · 6 Jun 2007 at 11:26

could you get octo-crossfire, with 4 dual core boards? and if that got coded nad manufactured :eek: