Cat 6.6 official is out!

**[XC]Atomicpineapple** · 06-26-2006, 11:09 AM

As titles, says Cat 6.6 official is up, get em while theyre hot!

**NightCrawler™** · 06-26-2006, 11:11 AM

LOL I just installed the betas today.... bastawards...!

**Tony** · 06-26-2006, 11:24 AM

So...anyone got Xfire working with no dongle? if so HOW???? LOL

**vapb400** · 06-26-2006, 11:34 AM

atomic any luck with the dongless X1900GT?

**ugp** · 06-26-2006, 11:35 AM

I am guessing with Dongleless you still need a CrossFire board or has someone found a way to use it on SLI boards?

**vapb400** · 06-26-2006, 11:38 AM

i think atomic tried on the 975x chipset, maybe it is looking for a 16x/16x lane ati chipset?

**Blacklash** · 06-26-2006, 11:38 AM

Damn I just put the beta 6.6s in last night too.

Anyone with two X1900 GTs about? I am curious how they stack up in Xfire.

It supposed to be X1900 GT and lower = no dongle. I suppose if you have two X1900 GTs just install the driver and see if the Crossfire option appears in the CCC. Or install one card, then the driver, then the other card.

**IvanAndreevich** · 06-26-2006, 11:41 AM

Far Cry performance improves 4-5%. Larger gains of up to 18.3% can be seen when using anisotropic filtering.
Fear performance improves as much as 8.5% on X1800 and X1900 Single card systems and as much as 14% on X1800 and X1900 Crossfire systems.
Splinter Cell (original) performance improves as much a 7% on X1300 and X1600 Crossfire systems.

No mention of improvements people were getting with the Betas. Someone needs to bench these against the Betas, they might be slower.

Download for the lazy - https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...questionID=640

**~~cronic~~** · 06-26-2006, 11:47 AM

Interesting the relese notes mention no improvements that the beta did, and an issues with bf2 exiting to the desktop is mentioned. hmm..............

I am awaiting results.

**Repoman** · 06-26-2006, 11:49 AM

Installing, we'll see if BF2 works (didn't with 6.5, fine with 6.3)

edit: bf2 still won't work, any suggestions? just closes on startup. The last ones that worked with bf2 are 6.3

I hate ATI!! should have stayed with nvidia..

**tvdang7** · 06-26-2006, 11:59 AM

yes dongless crossfire results would be cool.

**[XC]Atomicpineapple** · 06-26-2006, 12:00 PM

I cant get the drivers, I'm getting about 0.5kb/sec and stuff that, if any1's got them can they please host them somewhere?

And yes I want to see if they enable xfire with 2 X1900GTs on a Bad Axe, the betas didnt and I'll be p

d if the official 1s dont.

**rob2687** · 06-26-2006, 12:10 PM

http://www.sendspace.com/file/33e41y

**[XC]Atomicpineapple** · 06-26-2006, 12:24 PM

Just reinstalled the betas after using drivercleaner. Installed drivers with 1 card installed, rebooted, added 2nd card, rebooted, still no Xfire option. Thanks rob2687 for the link, dling the officials now, lets hope for better luck!

**tvdang7** · 06-26-2006, 12:32 PM

wait by dongle less we mean 1 master card with 1 regular card with out the dongle?

or 2 regular cards?

**[XC]Atomicpineapple** · 06-26-2006, 12:52 PM

According to this........http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5983 no mastercard, no dongle, nothing. However I've just installed the 6.6 officials with 2 X1900GTs on my bad axe mobo (975x chipset, so supports xfire) and it doesnt give me the option! Damn Hexus and ATI!

**Viss** · 06-26-2006, 01:56 PM

Tried them on me aircooled rig with crappy Venice tonight. Didnt gain me anything over 6.5. Could be me single core proc and/or win 2000 though, wil try XP soon.

Venice 10x230
Win 2000 SP4 DX 9.0c
X1800XT 700/800 atitool beta 14

2005

2006

**rob2687** · 06-26-2006, 02:08 PM

The 6.6 beta gave me a better score in 3dmark06

**IvanAndreevich** · 06-26-2006, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by rob2687

The 6.6 beta gave me a better score in 3dmark06

Anything more exact than that?

**Funky** · 06-26-2006, 02:20 PM

lol. In defense of both hexus and ATI they never claimed it will be in 6.6.
Soon is preety tricky word

**tvdang7** · 06-26-2006, 02:23 PM

hmm.... maybe if this enables something ill do 2 x1800 xt's

**rob2687** · 06-26-2006, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by IvanAndreevich

Anything more exact than that?

I ran them 3 times per driver. Each time was more or less exactly the same results.

6.6 Official

Code:

Main Test Results
3DMark Score	5705 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score	2305 Marks
SM 3.0 Score	2595 Marks
CPU Score	1644 Marks

Detailed Test Results

Graphics Tests
1 - Return to Proxycon	17.772 FPS
2 - Firefly Forest	20.643 FPS

CPU Tests
CPU1 - Red Valley	0.526 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley	0.821 FPS

HDR Tests
1 - Canyon Flight (SM 3.0)	25.152 FPS
2 - Deep Freeze (SM 3.0)	26.756 FPS

6.6 Beta

Code:

Main Test Results
3DMark Score	5997 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score	2464 Marks
SM 3.0 Score	2753 Marks
CPU Score	1648 Marks

Detailed Test Results

Graphics Tests
1 - Return to Proxycon	19.857 FPS
2 - Firefly Forest	21.205 FPS

CPU Tests
CPU1 - Red Valley	0.527 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley	0.825 FPS

HDR Tests
1 - Canyon Flight (SM 3.0)	26.757 FPS
2 - Deep Freeze (SM 3.0)	28.305 FPS

Pentium D 940
2x512mb DDR2
Asus P5WD2 E Premium
Powercolor Radeon x1900xtx
Everything a stock speeds.

**cantankerous** · 06-26-2006, 03:18 PM

so the beta really are faster. I am awaiting the omega based drivers as I prefer those. I hope he mods the faster betas if this really is the case but I doubt it.

**Tony** · 06-26-2006, 03:22 PM

I just spoke with David, main man at hexus and he confirmed 6.6 is "supposed to be" the one that unlocks dongle less Xfire but with an extra twist...RD580 is the chipset it works on.

So manta, cfx3200 etc users report in and give us the lowdown on if it works or not

I will try and have a play tomorrow if i can with my 1800XT's

**phi|os** · 06-26-2006, 03:37 PM

anyone want to hook it up with two 1900GT's? lol.

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