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07-05-2005, 10:41 AM
STEvil

I see movement on the horizon.

:D
07-05-2005, 11:16 AM
LowRun

Quote:

Originally Posted by STEvil

I see movement on the horizon.

:D

Can't see anything from here.
07-05-2005, 11:34 PM
Afterburner

C'mon let it out.......... :slap:
07-07-2005, 12:27 AM
aise

still nothing :( wtf are they waiting, christmas :rolleyes:
07-08-2005, 08:55 AM
Afterburner

ABIT is workin on their Crossfire mobo and their target is September :fact: Any news from Sapphire............ :slap:
07-08-2005, 09:21 AM
tictac

Quote:

Originally Posted by Afterburner

ABIT is workin on their Crossfire mobo and their target is September :fact: Any news from Sapphire............ :slap:

Ya... actually they even have a poll asking for suggestion and feedback for their upcoming crossfire board....
http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread...threadid=87043
07-08-2005, 12:27 PM
Master_G

September :(
Cant someone manage to get one out before mid august, im fed up with my Gigabyte POS already but i only want to change boards once.
Argh.

G
07-08-2005, 01:10 PM
LowRun

Quote:

Originally Posted by Afterburner

ABIT is workin on their Crossfire mobo and their target is September :fact: Any news from Sapphire............ :slap:

I can't see how they would have their boards in the shops 6 weeks after taking the board's design decision :confused:
07-08-2005, 02:43 PM
Afterburner

Its either retail by September or design completion by then.......VIPs as well as ATI was surprised with DFI @ Computex coz they came up with a Crossfire solution in such a short period of time the chipset was released so I reckon its feasible......... :p:
07-08-2005, 09:56 PM
situman

Quote:

Originally Posted by LowRun

I can't see how they would have their boards in the shops 6 weeks after taking the board's design decision :confused:

well they can design a base board. Then once the poll ends, they can change the overclocking options on the bios level. Regarding high end crap, they can just change the southbridge.
07-09-2005, 06:30 AM
LowRun

Quote:

Originally Posted by situman

well they can design a base board. Then once the poll ends, they can change the overclocking options on the bios level. Regarding high end crap, they can just change the southbridge.

Well, this is not what the poll seems to be about and the options given would end in very different boards, it seems to me like it would require more than bios settings and a SB to get the different possible versions to work ok.
07-09-2005, 12:39 PM
tictac

Quote:

Originally Posted by Afterburner

Its either retail by September or design completion by then.......VIPs as well as ATI was surprised with DFI @ Computex coz they came up with a Crossfire solution in such a short period of time the chipset was released so I reckon its feasible......... :p:

Source : ABIT Indonesia :fact:
http://www.abit.or.id/modules.php?op...rder=0&thold=0
...Starting from September 2005, Abit will work with ATI to design motherboard base on ATI Crossfire Chipset ...

ABIT Indonesia
We(ABIT Indonesia) have confirmed this with ABIT Product Manager(ABIT HQ Taiwan) who didnt want his name to be publish....

ABIT HQ
"... in couple of month to come ABIT Engineer will work hard to finish the basic design first, before we start implementing ATI Crossfire Chipset..."

I think ABIT wont be able to complete their Crossfire board until end of this year (Q4 2005) or maybe early neaxt year (Q1 2006).... :slap: :slapass:

Anyway ... Sapphire, DFI , Asus already finish their basic design... they probably just waiting Green Light from ATI... :yepp:
07-09-2005, 02:09 PM
LowRun

Quote:

Originally Posted by tictac

I think ABIT wont be able to complete their Crossfire board until end of this year (Q4 2005) or maybe early neaxt year (Q1 2006).... :slap: :slapass:

Now this makes more sense.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tictac

Anyway ... Sapphire, DFI , Asus already finish their basic design... they probably just waiting Green Light from ATI... :yepp:

Yeah, was thinking the same and also that ATI should get their thumbs off their arse :fact:
07-09-2005, 02:21 PM
sysfailur

Mmmm this board is interesting. For a single card setup that is.
07-09-2005, 03:03 PM
LowRun

Quote:

Originally Posted by sysfailur

Mmmm this board is interesting. For a single card setup that is.

There should also be a XFire model.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...id=31829&stc=1
07-09-2005, 03:27 PM
fareastgq

man that black board is ugly, they better have the white board.
07-09-2005, 03:30 PM
LowRun

Quote:

Originally Posted by fareastgq

man that black board is ugly, they better have the white board.

:yepp:
07-09-2005, 04:08 PM
sysfailur

Now how backwards would this be.... run 2 x nvidia SLI cards on an ATI motherboard. LOL
07-09-2005, 06:07 PM
NicoOCZ

Quote:

Originally Posted by LowRun

:yepp:

full ack.

thanks for sharing all that infos with us, bigtoe :toast:
07-09-2005, 07:56 PM
Mr. Tinker

They're probably waiting for the crossfire vid cards to be out on shelves.
07-09-2005, 08:06 PM
Shroomalistic

thats what I was thinking
07-09-2005, 08:22 PM
Sephious

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Tinker

They're probably waiting for the crossfire vid cards to be out on shelves.

That's a good theory, but I sure hope the Sapphire board comes out before September or I'm probably going to give up hope and buy another board.
07-10-2005, 03:23 AM
Afterburner

But why da heck wait jus for the cards......mobos are the foundation and are needed ASAP and esp after annoucning the PURE series, Sapphire has plenty of world customers interested in the mobo........if the drag to long which they are doin now......ALOT will move on and get a DFI :slapass:
07-10-2005, 08:48 PM
Sephious

Quote:

Originally Posted by Afterburner

But why da heck wait jus for the cards......mobos are the foundation and are needed ASAP and esp after annoucning the PURE series, Sapphire has plenty of world customers interested in the mobo........if the drag to long which they are doin now......ALOT will move on and get a DFI :slapass:

I have to agree. It's a bad business tactic, I think, but it might be what they are doing. I don't want another DFI board, but if Sapphire's board isn't out when I want to buy my system, DFI is going to get my money.
07-11-2005, 03:50 AM
Tony

I have been pushing to get the boards released, sapphire are pretty quiet but on the grapevine I heard end of July mentioned.

We are all waiting, performance on Crossfire looks really impressive, i just hope they can release sooner rather than later.

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