X1600 XT Crossfire users.

[Mabrito]

How well do they perform in a Crossfire setup? What are some of your FPS's in BF2, HL2 and etc? Im thinking of getting 2 of these sometime soon, and I know they are pretty good by thereselfs.

 

[HisSvt76]

BF2 1280X1024 4xaa 16xaf average 50+fps ,
quake 4 1024x768 4xaa 8xaf high quality 45 to 65fps
HL2 1280x1024 4xaa 16xaf average 48fps on my rig.
UT2004 1280x1024 maxxed out 14xaa 16xHQaf 85fps average
Halo 1280x1024 maxxed out and 16x HQAF 75fps average
COD 2 1024x768 4xaa 8xaf high quality 40 to 50 fps average
and my 3dmark scores are

06 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=69521
05 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1750923
03 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4581880

 

[HisSvt76]

and fear at 1024x768 auto game setting cpu max and graphics high

and 1280 same settings

 

[Rollo]

I wish you X1600 Crossfire users better luck than I had using 6600GT SLI - everyone and their brother seemed to want to flame me for not using top end SLI, and explain to me how one upper level card a "better choice".

To the X1600 Crossfire rebels, I salute you! Multi card is just fun to play with.

 

[Mabrito]

BF2 1280X1024 4xaa 16xaf average 50+fps ,
quake 4 1024x768 4xaa 8xaf high quality 45 to 65fps
HL2 1280x1024 4xaa 16xaf average 48fps on my rig.
UT2004 1280x1024 maxxed out 14xaa 16xHQaf 85fps average
Halo 1280x1024 maxxed out and 16x HQAF 75fps average
COD 2 1024x768 4xaa 8xaf high quality 40 to 50 fps average
and my 3dmark scores are

06 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=69521
05 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1750923
03 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4581880

Wow that is pretty damn good. Thanks alot, those are the games I play, great settings and FPS. I also play at a 1024x768 res and even if I do upgrade my monitor it will probably only do a 1280x 1024 res the most. I really want a 2005FPW, I just dont think I am willing enough to waste that kind of money on it, when I can get a 17in or 19in for 250 or so and still have a great gaming experience. It also seems like you pulled 4x AA for every game. Call me crazy but to me, 2x AA is good enough, so im sure running it at 2x AA instead of 4x AA like you are, is going to increase those FPS by a good amount.

 

[HisSvt76]

Wow that is pretty damn good. Thanks alot, those are the games I play, great settings and FPS. I also play at a 1024x768 res and even if I do upgrade my monitor it will probably only do a 1280x 1024 res the most. I really want a 2005FPW, I just dont think I am willing enough to waste that kind of money on it, when I can get a 17in or 19in for 250 or so and still have a great gaming experience. It also seems like you pulled 4x AA for every game. Call me crazy but to me, 2x AA is good enough, so im sure running it at 2x AA instead of 4x AA like you are, is going to increase those FPS by a good amount.

I do alot at 1024 also because my second display is a 27inch lcdtv that is 16:9 and only does 1024 vga looks great though

 

[HisSvt76]

I wish you X1600 Crossfire users better luck than I had using 6600GT SLI - everyone and their brother seemed to want to flame me for not using top end SLI, and explain to me how one upper level card a "better choice".

To the X1600 Crossfire rebels, I salute you! Multi card is just fun to play with.

i look at it this way i get x1800xl performance , i got the board and the 2 cards for 440 so you cant beat that

 

[Rollo]

i look at it this way i get x1800xl performance , i got the board and the 2 cards for 440 so you cant beat that

Hey you don't have to explain yourself to me- I bought SLI 6600GTs and 6800NUs before the higher end stuff.

Multicard is just fun to play with, and those 6600GTs smoked without AA at high res.

We are brothers.

 

[HisSvt76]

Hey you don't have to explain yourself to me- I bought SLI 6600GTs and 6800NUs before the higher end stuff.

Multicard is just fun to play with, and those 6600GTs smoked without AA at high res.

We are brothers.

exactly and when i step up i have 2 nice cards for my other 2 machines that need better cards

 

[thespymaster]

Where did you guys buy your X1600 Crossfire master cards at? I haven't seen any for sale....

 

[Flight]

You dont need a master card to run x1600 crossfire.

 

[thespymaster]

You dont need a master card to run x1600 crossfire.

Well, thats what I thought but, the box my Saphire came in says I did...I dunno...

 

[HisSvt76]

Well, thats what I thought but, the box my Saphire came in says I did...I dunno...

the boxes have a same generic label but i bought 2 sapphire X1600XT's and a board and bam it all works awsome and didnt bust my wallet i only play sertain games on pc since i also have a xbox 360

Its nice the x1600's have no cables to use for crossfire or internal connectors its all handled by the pcie bus

 

[thespymaster]

I Guess I'll give it a try then.....

 

[Geronimo]

Will these x1600's in crossfire beat my x1800 xl in everything?? including using 2xAA and 8x anistropic at 1920x1200?????!!!!?????

 

[Jbirney]

Wow not bad numbers and congrads on the set up!!!

/me looks at his aging x800xl

 

[HisSvt76]

Will these x1600's in crossfire beat my x1800 xl in everything?? including using 2xAA and 8x anistropic at 1920x1200?????!!!!?????

thats hard to say i have no way to test that res , id say maybe ,maybe not as the crossfire cat ai improves so will the performance in games its still young . it would be nice if ATI would tell us what games run in what mode. like when i rename the fear.exe i get a pretty large boost in frames it changes rendering modes in crossfire , no drop in IQ just boost in FPS

 

[PWMK2]

thats hard to say i have no way to test that res , id say maybe ,maybe not as the crossfire cat ai improves so will the performance in games its still young . it would be nice if ATI would tell us what games run in what mode. like when i rename the fear.exe i get a pretty large boost in frames it changes rendering modes in crossfire , no drop in IQ just boost in FPS

That stopped happening to me when I updated to cat 5.9!