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Dual GPU graphics solution from ATi?

Posted by Hemos on from the imagine-a-beo-nevermind dept.

Graphics Guru writes "Last week TweakTown posted an exclusive picture of the ATi Radeon 8500 MAXX with believable accompanying information also regarding the highly anticipated ATi R300. 3DChipset is today reporting that they have confirmation that the 8500 MAXX is indeed real and is due to be shipped fairly soon. Here's what someone from ATi told them: "The ATI Radeon 8500 Maxx is for real and the card is already in full production and about to be shipped soon. ATi has finally nailed certain issues with the dual chip. Final testings have been done and you should here noise from ATi regarding this offering." You decide if it is real or not, a solid dual GPU solution would surely rock the industry to massive proportions!"

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  1. Really now... by levik · · Score: 2, Troll
    ... Do we need to have a Beowulf cluster of chips and memory on a video card? This is yet another example of the trend in cumputing that has strived to make things better by making them bigger and giving us more of them.

    "Optimization, shmoptimization! Just cram a second GPU in there and we'll be fine."

    I really wish people would just stop coming out with new hardware for a couple of years, so that we can all save a few upgrade bucks, and the software industry can get their act together, and start writing clean, well optimized, stable programs, instead of trying to always catch up to the bleeding edge that nobody really asked the hardware companies to push.

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  2. Re:Stop Slamming ATI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "I think people need to put a little perspective on things."

    People have every right to complain abou ATI. Their drivers have always sucked ass and people have had tons of problems with games working right with them. Its all good and well for YOU that you just happen to buy a 8500 now when the drivers have FINALLY stablized, but the rest of us got a underperforming buggy graphics card for our hard earned money last fall. There are of course several recent games which still take ATI specific patches to fix. Sorry but your in the minority and most of the people I know who bought a 8500 when it came out won't be buying another ATI product.

    So take your ATI fanboy lecture and cram it where the sun don't shine.