ATI's DX10 offerings

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kevineugenius

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Basically, I have an Intel D975xbx motherboard and I'm thinking of upgrading to Crossfire 1950xtxs. However, that seems kind of silly now that the DX10 stuff is out, and ATI will have DX10 stuff coming along sooner or later. Does anyone know if they will have Crossfire (I'm sure they will) and whether or not it will take a new chipset to support it? In short, will my d975 chipset support a DX10 crossfire setup?
 
Yeah new Crossfire cards should be compatible with old Crossfire motherboards. Anything else would be absolutely retarded.

On the green side, NVIDIA's 2-year-old nForce 4 SLI chipsets for socket 939 can still do SLI with the newer 8800 GTX cards. ATI would be really shooting themselves in the foot to require a motherboard upgrade with every video upgrade, and seeing how the PCI Express standard is implemented pretty much the same from board to board, there's no technical reason I can think of why they would need to.
 
Cool beans. I think I have my video card sold... Off topid: does anyone know where to get a decent vid card for cheap? Needs to drive 1920x1200 in decent config so I can still play games while waiting for them to come out. x1600 all-in-wonder would be best, 'cause then I can put it in my media PC after I'm done using it.
 
kevineugenius said:
Cool beans. I think I have my video card sold... Off topid: does anyone know where to get a decent vid card for cheap? Needs to drive 1920x1200 in decent config so I can still play games while waiting for them to come out. x1600 all-in-wonder would be best, 'cause then I can put it in my media PC after I'm done using it.
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I'm not actually sure how well an X1600 would perform at that high resolution. But here is an X1900 AIW for only $220.
 
A current crossfire board should work fine unless they start using HTX or something crazy. It's really just a matter of being able to transfer enough data back and forth. If it exceeds the 16x slots they will likely just use a bridge in which case the chipset won't matter as much.
 
snowysnowcones said:
I'm not actually sure how well an X1600 would perform at that high resolution. But here is an X1900 AIW for only $220.
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Sweetness. I've actually been looking for this card and having an awful time finding it. Thanks.
 
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