DFI - ATI CrossFire Mobo?

[Shadow of chaos]

Will there be a mobo from DFI to allow Dual ATI cards to run in crossfire mode...?

 

if anyone knows, let me know.. unless its too early to say that is.

 

Looks like ATI's dual vid card setup is gonna crush nvidias

[tristancarton]

http://www.firingsquad.com/features/comput...y_one/page3.asp

[oliveryochest]

use the search. there is already a thread

[Shadow of chaos]

http://www.firingsquad.com/features/comput...y_one/page3.asp

 

w00t.. cheers, guess i didnt look hard enough

 

These boards exactly the same as the current DFI ones except just the Crossfire feature added?

[Demo24]

w00t.. cheers, guess i didnt look hard enough

 

These boards exactly the same as the current DFI ones except just the Crossfire feature added?

 

 

no. Its a ATI chipset and the layout is different

[Booster]

Hmmm seeing this is the "popular" DFI Crossfire mobo topic, did anyone notice I know HardOCP did that there are two regular X850XT and not a Crossfire card? Funny to see it running perfectly fine and I can't wait for the DFI Crossfire.

[Rogueblowtorch]

use the search. there is already a thread

 

I searched for "crossfire"... you get seven results... 2 of which have nothing to do with it, and the others are mostly AG and others saying "use the search" wtf is the "official" thread on it called!?!?

[leokor]

Hmmm seeing this is the "popular" DFI Crossfire mobo topic, did anyone notice I know HardOCP did that there are two regular X850XT and not a Crossfire card? Funny to see it running perfectly fine and I can't wait for the DFI Crossfire.

 

It doesn't run perfectly. Check out a HardOCP comment on this (the emphasis is mine):

 

Don't be confused into thinking that ATI's "CrossFire" dual video card configuration can be achieved with two "slave" cards as some might have you think.

 

DFI has been showing two slave cards running in a dual configuration at Computex as seen above, and they have in fact been showing 3DMark 2005 scores that increase by nearly 80% when they turn on "CrossFire" in the driver. Well to make a long story short, the two slave cards are sharing the workload and nearly doubling the 3D Mark2005 score, but you are only seeing every other frame supplied by one of the cards. So keep in mind that rendering double the frames is pretty "easy," but putting them back together again is not just going to happen by accident.

 

Just a half-functional demo slapped together for the lack of actual hardware.

 

An interesting question, however, is whether Crossfire would work on an nForce4 SLI mobo. Some sites speculate that it may. Indeed, it would make business sense as well. And technologically, it should be simple.

 

Leo

[Booster]

I know that it doesn't run perfectly, thats why I had mentioned about HardOCP, but I'm just saying I'm suprised that it even ran when reading previews about it, it made sense that if you didn't have a CrossFire card it wouldn't work.

[soundx98]

just to confuse the issue an lil more I thought a chinese website was in order

 

http://www.hardspell.com/news/showcont.asp?news_id=13983

[uwackme]

This is the kind of stuff that pisses the hell out of me.

 

the manufacturers ultimately sticking it to the customers in thier competitive fight.

 

There is NO REASON what so ever that NV SLI wont work on a ATI "xfire" board or that ATI xfire wont work on an NVidia SLI board.... other than THEM writing the drivers to enforce this restriction.

 

Both are 2x "x8" PCIe implementations, the DRIVER software does ALL the rest.

 

Anything either camps say other wise is total BS. I PREFER the NF4 as a motherboard, but I want to use 2x X850XT's. I dont mind the bridge or DVI dongle thing, Ill get a "master" xfire board later when I want to use 2 video cards, thats fine. Though the ENTIRE job of re-constituting the image could be done OUTSIDE the system with 2 normal DVI outputs feeding a black box with a USB interface to get software commands from the driver.

 

The spiffy "special" connector on the ATI xfire master is just a DVI INPU and OUTPUT connector, rather than the standard OUTPUT only conect we are used to.

 

Its all just ATI/NVidia being asswipes and screw the customers best interests. Even the "gotta be thesame" video card constraints are BS, just adjust your algorithm to load balance/off-load the imaging task based on capabilities. no different than doing Folding@Home on 2 PC's... they dont HAVE to be the same, it just gets more even WORK done on each if they are. Yes 2 X850's will be faster than a X850 and a X300, but "technically" it is IRRELEVENT what the cards are beyond needing to be PCIe cards.

 

I like the layout of the NF4 better than the layout in the picture of the RS482.

 

All moot, as they havent even shipped the Sapphire single x16 slot RS480 board yet...sheesh. ATI is really dragging thier feet. But as ATI customer with 2 $500 video cards Im VERY pissed off they are pulling this BS over the motherboard requirement....especially when _I_ _KNOW_ its total BS.

[soundx98]

uwackme - I absolutely and positively love that post. You are dead nuts on.

 

As the on-going oil crisis continues to decimate world economies these GPU folks need to wake up. I've really had it with the out-dated $500 video card every 6 months. This last BS is the final straw.