Sapphire Radeon X800 XL 512MB and ATI Crossfire

[smasterross]

Hello,

I have recently been reading up on SLi and Crossfire and have decided that Crossfire is best for what I need. However I need to check if the Sapphire Radeon X800 XL 512MB is Crossfire compatible and if I buy two identical ones that it will work.

Here it is on eBuyer:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=90087

I hope someone can help me.

Thanks,
Steven Ross

[SoloCamo]

Welcome to TechIMO!

I beleive with crossfire you need a regular card (such as that x800xl) and then buy a seperate Crossfire able chipset videocard to run with it.

So no, two identical store bought cards won't work.

here you go, straight from ATI's website


How It Works
To build your own latest generation multi-GPU system, start with any existing Radeon® X800 or Radeon® X850 graphics card and a CrossFire Ready motherboard, such as those based on the ATI Radeon® Xpress 200 CrossFire chipset. Then add a Radeon CrossFire Edition co-processor board and plug in the external cable to unite multi-GPU power.

[EXreaction]

Yes, welcome!

If I was you, I would not get the 512mb version, it costs more, it runs slower, and worst of all...it costs more!

As far as I know, ATI has not released any of the crossfire cards yet, and to use crossfire, you need a ATI Xpress chipset on your mobo, that has 2x 16x pci-e slots, and I have not seen any of those yet either.

Man, ATI has been lagging behind recently or what?

[smasterross]

Thank you for your replys.

So do you think I would be better of getting a two SLi Nvidia cards?

Thanks,
Steven Ross

[EXreaction]

I think that your best bet if you want to get a card now, is to go for the 7800 GTX, that way if you want to, you could get SLI later on, and 1 7800 GTX is faster than 2x 6800 ultras(if the game is coded right), and it is cheaper than 2x 6800 Ultra's.

[SoloCamo]

Originally Posted by EXreaction

I think that your best bet if you want to get a card now, is to go for the 7800 GTX, that way if you want to, you could get SLI later on, and 1 7800 GTX is faster than 2x 6800 ultras(if the game is coded right), and it is cheaper than 2x 6800 Ultra's.

exactly.

I don't think SLI or Ati's crossfire is worth it right now.

I would just go with the best single card you can afford. I also second not going for the 512mb version, it is mearly just "bigger number bragging rights"

[erhan28]

Originally Posted by SoloCamo

exactly.

I don't think SLI or Ati's crossfire is worth it right now.

I would just go with the best single card you can afford. I also second not going for the 512mb version, it is mearly just "bigger number bragging rights"

exactly the memory interface is 256mb , now if that was 512 then oh yea...