CrossFire in hands

[Sampsa]

Hi guys,

I have a CrossFire system here with two Radeon X850 XTs and Halibut motherboard.





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With FX-57 and High Quality settings the system scores around 10880. Everything running at default clocks.

I'll do some overclocking tomorrow with Vapochill LS cooled FX-57. Unfortunately I don't have time to play with an extreme cooling on graphics cards because of an upcoming product launch. Anyway, I'll post some overclocked numbers tomorrow if I can find a tool to overclock graphics cards in CrossFire mode..

[Vapor]

Doubly extreme....you have CrossFire and you don't have time to play with it because of X1800XT

How's Halibut treatin' ya?

[AfterClock]

because of an upcoming product launch

Heh...we know what

ATi Tray Tools would be fine for OCing the cards.

[Doumz]

Waw not too bad for default clock

can't wait to see what it have under the hood ;p

[Tanktanium]

Do a run in high performance mode

[b0bd0le]

hmm does this mean you guys are working on overclocking the XTs?

[metro.cl]

sampsa do you have any problems with the bios not reading correctly the vcore, we have one here (think is the same as you) but the bios seems buggy, do you have a new one?? or better one?

[eva2000]

nice setup.. now torture the cards

[5-Clicks]

i echo what everybody else here is saying

[jrw]

Try gaming in 1600x1200 @ 100Hz ^^

[Tanktanium]

You can't even do that with a non crossfire setup...I can't think of any monitor ever made that could do 1600x1200@100hz. The only rez i know for sure that can do that is 1024x768..

[zightx]

[Supertim0r]

when could we see dual X1800XT and highly overclocked FX-57 ?

[C3]

Unfortunately I don't have time to play with an extreme cooling on graphics cards because of an upcoming product launch.

Have phun @Ibiza

Btw. nice system, but imo X-Fire with the X1800 is the real thing

[AfterClock]

Btw. nice system, but imo X-Fire with the X1800 is the real thing

Double that

[althes]

Let the fun begin

[metro.cl]

when could we see dual X1800XT and highly overclocked FX-57 ?

7 days 20hours and counting...

[LivingL@rGe81]

I can't think of any monitor ever made that could do 1600x1200@100hz. The only rez i know for sure that can do that is 1024x768..

You wanna get a decent monitor like mine, Eizo F930 21" CRT, I use it 1600 x 1200 104Hz, the best monitor I have ever had....


Come on Sampsa stop teasing us!!!

[cupra]

wow, that is the first cf that see in the "real" world

that board looks so cool, the rad and black work super together, can you give more details ?

[Vapor]

Stil isn't quite real world...this is a review sample.

[Sampsa]

sampsa do you have any problems with the bios not reading correctly the vcore, we have one here (think is the same as you) but the bios seems buggy, do you have a new one?? or better one?

I'll check that, I haven't done any overclocking with the system yet. Just the basic benchmarks. Tomorrow I'll be doing some overclocking.

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.

R520 XT CrossFire is what I'm really waiting for

[Sampsa]

The motherboard has amazing voltage adjustments, propably just like Grouper. Vmem up to 4,0 etc. I hope we'll see this reference design from DFI! (BT?)

PS. Southbridge SB450 has some serious problems with Seagate Barracuda SATA V which has a native SATA support. For some reason southbridge forces it to PIO-mode and doesn't work in UltraDMA-6 mode. I'm using Silicon Images SATA controller instead.

[k|ngp|n]

Nice to see these out in the flesh, and in a great overclockers hands Sampsa... Cant wait to see what these can do. They look sweet. I am sure macci will be coming hard soon .

[LardArse]

Wow everyone seems to be gettin their X-fires already....
Waiting to see the R520s in X-fire Sampsa... pls share all that you see/touch...

[AfterClock]

hm...the "surely" working OC way is flashing the cards ( BIOS )