BooGiTyBoY said:A master x800 128 card is over $249? You can get 2 6600gt 256 for around $200 each, which will pretty much outperform a stock low-end x800 128 which is around the same price. More card for your money. The crossfire seems more expensive for what you are actually getting...
X850 crossfire master card: $549, x850 pro $349
Twin 6800 gt's: $360 each. Once more... a lot less expensive than the crossfire solution with the same performance.
Renegade Retard said:THAT is kickass!
Having to have identical cards is the one drawback of SLI.
I'd imagine, though, that having two cards that were not the same "strength" would cripple the faster card, making it to run only as fast as the lesser card. Is this correct? or does Crossfire use the full resources of both cards? (I haven't been able to look further into this yet)
If the stronger of the two different cards was handicapped to the level of the weaker card, then there's really no advantage other than convenience.
Sir_Brizz said:The problem with that is that chances are two "X800s" won't outperform a single card of the next gen stuff.
The_Head said:To a certain extent anyway.
You can't use cards with Different sized frame buffers or number of pixel piplines. Other than that you can use anything