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Sneak Peek at ATi's CrossFire Graphics System
Kez writes "While at Computex in Taipei HEXUS.net grabbed some benchmarks of an ATi CrossFire powered system. They have since had the chance to reconstruct a similar system and perform the same benchmarks with other cards and configurations to give us an idea of how CrossFire will perform. Obviously, CrossFire's performance will almost certainly change before release time, but in the very least the article provides an idea of what to expect. Interestingly, from these tests it looks like Nvidia's SLI may remain top-dog for graphics performance."
It would be interesting to compare diagrams of the architectures that SLI/Crossfire use to see why one would be better than the other.
Honesty may be the best policy, but by process of elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.
my luck with ATI has been pretty bad, i have installed 3 cards, all of them different models, always having driver problems, and crashes, with nvidia i had 4 with no problems on any of them, but maybe thats just me..
That's what people bitched out when 3dMark03 came out and gave advantages to ATI's cards. Guess what? Those 9700 Pros really did blow away the 5800 Ultras in next-gen games. 3DMark is much maligned, but I think they've done an excellent job of trying to predict the future 2 years in advance and figure out what games will be using then. Can it be perfect? No. Will the performance deltas differ between 3dmark and current-gen games? Absolutely. But when Unreal Engine 3 comes out, go back and look at those 3dmark05 scores and say, "Hmm. They were pretty much spot on."
I've seen this problem before and it turned out a bad stick of ram was causing the random videocard lockups. Took me forever and a couple different cards to figure this out. Try running a memory test or pulling out and swapping DIMs to see if this improves the problem.
Bad RAM seems to cause lots of computer problems in various other components.