CrossFire, Which Platform?

[Circaflex]

Well guys this summer I plan on rebuilding my system, I am sticking with ATI but no bias towards Intel or AMD. Any benchmarks comparing CrossFire on Intel vs AMD?

[n00b 0f l337]

Can't really bencharmk comparisons... Depends on cpu, mobo, ram and such. Currently i'd say amd still has the lead in benching until intels conroe comes around. Then we may see a turn in the tables.

[rozzyroz]

I know that aopen is releasing a board for the yonah based off of the 975 chipset. this is supposed to run Xfire quite well.

however, the board isnt released until march sometime. i would have to think that this will be an awsome setup.

[perkam]

If you are comfortable with Intel, then its going to be cheaper too...Conroe will debu under $300 and the intel chipset supporting it should be cf compatible.

Might I suggest you wait it out for the actual crossfire...seeing as drivers havent matured yet. I would get a good XTX along with a Conroe config and wait for drivers to mature for cf before jumping in.

Heck, if you can get a good watercooling system instead of going cf, then you get a 14k 05 24/7 system on a single card cos of the power of one XTX.

As a testament to its power, a max clocked single XTX scores the same in GT1 3dmark05 as two fully maxxed GTX512MBs in SLI.

Perkam