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Xrak
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Posted - 2008.06.28 08:32:00 -
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Edited by: Xrak on 28/06/2008 08:32:09
 Originally by: Grimpak
also, 4850 in CF mode (400$ solution) beats the 280GTX wich is a single card solution of arround 500/600$.
problem with this is that CF is not that reliable yet.
Agreed, when CF works, my god it works bloody well, unfortunately when it doesn't work you only see the performance of 1 card. Hopefully they can work out more of these issues since atm it seems like CF only works with about 70% of games, which if you are spending that much money is not an acceptable figure.
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Xrak
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Posted - 2008.06.28 09:03:00 -
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Originally by: Lord MuffloN
While I'm a NVIDIA fanboy (It's the only thing I've ever been a fanboy too, and it's because of their lovely drivers) I got to say congratulations as this will make prices fall!
Erm you mean those drivers where if there is a performance boost they hold them back till ATI has something new? Sounds good to me, right?
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Xrak
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Posted - 2008.06.28 10:41:00 -
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Bah, laptop users! 
With regards the ATI Linux drivers, I don't use Linux, so I don't really know but I think they went open source with them or something so might be worth checking out.
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Xrak
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Posted - 2008.06.28 18:02:00 -
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Originally by: Kappas.
Originally by: Shinnen
Bot true tbh, maybe for the new ones, but I have an x1600 mobility in my laptop that runs COD4 at 720p low settings at like 70FPS, and Crysis low res and settings are like 20FPS (good enough for campaign mode).
Not exactly the best defense for a graphics card I've ever seen
For a midrange laptop card I'd say that was pretty ******* good.
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Xrak
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Posted - 2008.06.28 19:22:00 -
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Originally by: laotse
i use cf and it work,s great, so people telling that its full of problems dont no wat the saying 
This image kinda proves the point that XF is not perfect and still has some major issue.
But it mostly working well and has seen massive improvements in the last 6 months, so a few more months and hopefully ATI will be there.
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Xrak
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Posted - 2008.06.28 22:31:00 -
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Originally by: Verone
lol, crossfire.
Yea 2 x ú125 cards giving the same performance as one ú430 card. That is kinda lol right?
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Xrak
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Posted - 2008.06.29 11:10:00 -
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Originally by: Bom Bast
Edited by: Bom Bast on 29/06/2008 03:16:11
However... this wont last long. NVidia still has the street rep that one good card wont buy for ATI... AMD/ATI is leaking money like a screen door on a submarine, while NVidia not only has a nice treasure trove, it has a BIG treasure trove which is now allowing them to compete in more and more fields.
Basically... AMD/ATI needs to survive and beat NVidia for at least 3 card cycles before this means anything. Otherwise... ATI made a nice card, and is selling it cheaply enough to go bankrupt. Whoop-de-do.
Wrong, ATI has been making AMD money, slightly offsetting the losses being taken by the CPU unit of the company. Also ATI will be making a nice profit on the 48x0 series and can lower the prices a fair way before they start losing out. Nvidia on the other hand are being squeezed pretty tight by ATI this time. They have had to lower prices to match ATI and going much futher isnt really an option for them until they do a die shrink.
Also Nivdia may have bought out Aegia for their PhyX, but Intel bought Havok and ATI will be using using that. And I think that most games apart from games built on the Unreal 3 Engine use Havok. So it will be interesting to see how that turns out. There are already rurmors of people gettin PhyX stuff to work on ATI cards.
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Xrak
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Posted - 2008.06.29 11:46:00 -
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Yes you just confirmed everything I said.
Ati division is not making losses, it's making money. Thus they will have made back their cost of buying it whenever you said.
AMD is massively in debt as I said.
People are very quick to forget how much of a failseries the 5 series was for nvidia, and ATI were ruling with the 9x00 cards, 9800 pro anyone? They were both doing fine again, until the 2x00 series for ATI which was just utter fail. It ate up 2-3 power stations worth of electricity was very hot and had massive trouble with AA. So ATI has only really had big trouble for about a year and a half between the launch of the Nvidia 8 series and the launch of the ATI 38x0 series.
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