CrossFire in hands

[IRQ Conflict]

7 days 20hours and counting...

I'd keep counting

Well you get Crossfire support by default just by having a GPU from R300 onwards, PCI Express interconnect and a DVI port. Those are the only requirements for a slave board to say "Crossfire support" on the box.

Master boards are the different kettle of fish and caboosemoose is right, there'll be no R5-series Crossfire at launch.

-Rys

linky

[Tanktanium]

I'd still like to have fun with X850XT crossfire for the time being. Availablility of R520 crossfire boards is going to be extremely limited, and I won't be able to afford them for a while anyway...

[G H Z]

Thanks for the preview Sampsa, you lucky guy

[Vincentvega18]

yeah, looking good........so r520 is gonna be limited to 60hz in crossfire???

[jrw]

yeah, looking good........so r520 is gonna be limited to 60hz in crossfire???

HEHE.

[metro.cl]

yeah, looking good........so r520 is gonna be limited to 60hz in crossfire???

maybe not look at this:

If you want more than 60hz you'll have to buy 2 new cards, because the old ones can work only at 60hz, how convinient from ati (instead of buying just the cf edition now you have to buy 2 new cards from new gen)
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews...27_121059.html

[caater]

3dmark2001se run would be great!

[-47-!]

ATi can never get things released like ever it takes them so long

[Supertim0r]

3dmark2001se run would be great!

yup ! should be great...maybe 40k stock ?

[n00b 0f l337]

Here I'll give you a taste so I dont have to put up some smileys....

HWA NoL: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...8&page=1&pp=25
afIr3wIthIn: Oo
afIr3wIthIn: stock xfire=high clocked 7800 rig
afIr3wIthIn: nice
HWA NoL: that right there
HWA NoL: is better
HWA NoL: MUCH Better
HWA NoL: than sex
HWA NoL: in any form
afIr3wIthIn: LOL

[perkam]

The R520, in either single or dual mode, isn't limited by the 60hz barrier...

Perkam

[nachthymnen]

Great!!!A good ATI answer to nVidia's SLI (sorry for my english)

[biohead]

sounds great!

[Comp-Freak]

Damn, why didn't they send those toys to me

Have fun with it Sampsa. Can't wait to see some r520 results in X-Fire.

[Sampsa]

I was busy today but still managed to run few quick tests.

High performance from drivers, FX-57 running @ 3,3 GHz and graphics cards running GPU: 585 MHz and Memory: 595 MHz scored 12500 in 3DMark05. I'll do few more test runs tomorrow and try to hit 13k.

Then I'm off to Ibiza!

[perkam]

Then I'm off to Ibiza!

Ibiza --> R520 launch. Have fun there. Though do drop by after for a summary of events from someone who's been there first hand

* Is macci going ? *

Perkam

[n00b 0f l337]

I wonder if they'd allow u in with a small video camera to get some info/video for us all.

[Mr_Slinky]

I wonder if they'd allow u in with a small video camera to get some info/video for us all.

that is probably part of the confidentiality agreement for them(or i would be guessing it would be and security would be tight)
you might be able to sneek a cellphone out and pretend like your calling someone and seek a quick pix and send to someone but that is just an idea

[Onepagebook]

what happened to the FX57 deault speed 2.8g @ 1.776v..

Very nice stuff.

[JuanFlaiter]

Sampsa, before you go partying to Ibiza, have you had any problems with the vCore reading? Our motherboard, as metro.cl told you, will always tell you are at 1.75vCore, although we haven't set it up that high, and it's definitely not at that voltage (just by touching the heatsink I can know it).

If not, would you mind telling me where is the point of measurement for CPU voltage?

Thanks again. You helped me before with the G70 at time of launch.

Good luck in Ibiza, wonderful women over there We weren't invited, hope they make a party in Brasil for the Latin America press , and my R520 hasn't left Canada. Things get so late here, we where at R360 launch yesterday

[Sampsa]

Hi, looks like at least CPU-Z is reading Vcore 1,776 no matter what.

[\Karting_freak]

Sampsa
Give us some more tests!

I heard master cards have chips that overclock better... is your doing better?

[jrw]

I like the frames on your pics

[Tibu]

Doom3 runs fine @ 1600x1200 (4x AA / 16 x ANI) but Battlefield 2 is requires resoltion dropped to 1024x768 (4x / 16x ANI). High performance quality settings gives 11200 in 3DMark05 at default clocks.

Unfortunately the bottom line is that CrossFire is ~6 months too late and it has some problems like 60 hz limit. Also performance / price can't compete with single GeForce 7800 GTX.

^ QFT

[Magnj]

dude he is right, get over it.