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AndoOKC1 said:sounds good to me...but can you tell me how much a 3200+ @ 2.4ghz bottlenecks these video cards.
flatliner said:I searched this thread and could not find a good answer to this question... perhaps I missed a post but it seems that part of the topic was brought up but not exactly as my questions would state.
In this review it is stated that:
"The problem with this is that although you paid for an X850 XT, your performance might be dumbed-down to match your current video card. You will not be getting everything out of the video card that you paid for. That just doesnt seem like a smart buy to me."
But in the tech preview that is linked off this review it is stated:
"What does not need to be the same are the clock speeds between both video cards. Unlike what you might think, the controller video card will not downclock itself to match a slower secondary video card. The clock speeds of both video cards can be different as long as the pixel-pipeline count and framebuffer size are the same. With the buffers in the compositing engine, it is able to buffer up data if one card is still drawing while the other is waiting for the data before blending and still maintain a performance advantage."
I am wondering which statement is the true statement. The one in this review would make the crossfire seem rather worthless to even attempt in the first place if you have a card lower than the 850xt or 800xl, and the statement in the tech preview would impress me in that the higher end card would pick up the a little more of the workload. As if dividing the workload in a 60/40 manner instead of 50/50 and "dumbing down" the first card.
I am not trying to point out fault or anything like that. I am just trying to help my decision on which way I might go looking at the future of upgrading equipment.
I have two machines (one for me and one for my wife) and I normally upgrade my machine and then my wife uses my old one. SLI or Crossfire have never seemed to make a lot of sense being that I upgrade an entire machine at a time. Our machines are not too outdated (amd64 3200 (@2337 275x8.5) w/x850 and amd-m2600 (@2500 200x12.5) w/6600GT) so I may upgrade my mobo and use Crossfire instead of buying a whole new machine this time. I could just buy a new video card but them I would need to update her mobo and processor (and perhaps some other stuff) in order to use my current card in her machine.
forcefed said:Oh man Kyle layed the smack down on ati on the front page, we aint yo bitch ati... talk to the hand mmmhmmm