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adamsleath
10-09-2007, 02:26 AM
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/07/sapphire-shows-triple-r600
http://images.vnu.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/07/sapphire-shows-triple-r600/sapphiretricard.jpg
Sparky
10-09-2007, 02:35 AM
Am I missing something, where are the crossfire bridges?
adamsleath
10-09-2007, 02:44 AM
pci 2 dont need them the article says :shrug:who knows?
The company is showing an engineering sample of its RD790 motherboard combined with three Sapphire Atlantis HD 2900XT cards.
informal
10-09-2007, 02:45 AM
Am I missing something, where are the crossfire bridges?
From the article:
As you can see for yourself, three cards are not connected via bridges.
What makes this setup interesting is that these three cards are not connected in TriFire, yet all three GPUs are working together. This is thanks to the bandwidth available with PCIe 2.0, since the 16 lanes are efficiently doubled up. Whether future cards will come with bridges or will they become thing of the past, it remains to be seen.
Sparky
10-09-2007, 02:46 AM
oh duh PCIe 2 :hitself:
BeardyMan
10-09-2007, 03:50 AM
so what is it? trifire or not? cause teh article title is trifire while they state in teh article it is not? can i say L-->O--->L?:D
informal
10-09-2007, 04:07 AM
Yep it is tri fire.But we don't know in what state are the drivers for this thing :)
knightwolf654
10-09-2007, 04:19 AM
i coulda sworn they were going back to one PCI-e connector since the new socket delivers 150 watts.
Sparky
10-09-2007, 04:37 AM
i coulda sworn they were going back to one PCI-e connector since the new socket delivers 150 watts.
Those are still HD2900XT cards so those dual connectors will still be there
Lightman
10-09-2007, 09:51 AM
Now I just need another 2 HD2900Pro, new mobo and of course second PSU...
Wait! I have second PSU in my drawer! :D