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@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
My single X1900XT card is faster than 2 x 6800GT’s in Sli mode.. so ner! and and.. umm.. its not hard to find Master cards either.. you really should think and maybe look before opening ya gob 🙂
My left testicle is faster than 2x 6800GT’s in SLI 😛 That’s why I got 7800 GT -_- You can’t really compare 1 or a hundred 6800GT’s to an X1900 unless you’re scared though – the 6800 is 2 generations behind an X1900, the Nvidia equivalent = wtfpwns 😛
The whole mastercard with ATI is bullshit… why is it needed really… Nvidia you can use any 2 cards from the same series – none are masters or slaves, they’re all hermaphrodites 😛 Even better you don’t have to buy from identical manufacturers so long as the cards are from the same series and you don’t even have to mix identical models from the same series… If you look at the spec of those masters they’re not even the same spec as the slaves and with ATI the slaves are fussy, or atleast a hell of a lot fussier (and shitter) than Nvidia 😛 yes you found masters, but then where are the slaves to match? infact… they all say pre-order.. crossfire has been out for years and so have the problems of getting it to work. i’m betting you only have 1 card because you couldn’t get a master 😛
@=XDC=FluffyBunny wrote:
Cheers for the offer Pharty but that new ati card might have my name on it (i’m an ati gheyboy 🙂 )
Fixed 😈
@stellas wrote:
.. went to overclockers on friday and picked up some bits and bobs (pain in the arse to find tho, its a small unit tucked away in the middle of a tunnel!.. if you go you’l see what i mean!!) Very helpful people there.
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Dont tell me you live nearby to that Hellhole called Stoke?
@=XDC= Erratic-Space wrote:
Cheers Doc for the http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ link.
ditto, gd sht there
“Modem: NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND”
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Dont tell me you live nearby to that Hellhole called Stoke?
fraid so 😥 bout 20 odd miles, did 35 miles to get to OcUK, kept getting lost! Damn you Stoke pikeys and your poxy traffic system 👿
Legit.. you dream of having Testicles that you can compare to GFX cards.. you dont need the same spec master, it just has to be a master card.. also if you get the Motherboard Chipset named “CrossFire Xpress 3200” you dont need a master at all.. 2 of the same card will work.. I believe with Nvidia, you HAD to have Identical cards, even had to check the numbers to match in the beginning. I dont know if this is the case now but its the same principle
And the 6800 was the card at the time when X1900XT was on the scene so they were compared with each other by everyone, apart from you because you know best about everything alegedly :/
As I said.. know what your talking about before you open your mouth, maybe then you wont need the title under your forum name 🙂
Oh and I dont have a crossfire “Master” card because as above, you really dont need one.. and the X1900XT on its own owned on its own at the time.. plus I dont rush stuff just because its “New” I like to wait and get the best thats available.. when I got me card, Crossfire had just become available
In the beginning SLI did even need identical manufacturers, but it’s been ATLEAST 18 months since you can mix and match cards in the driver updates, which is quite a long time tbh…
The 6800 was not the card competing with the X1900… the 6800 was circa Q2 2004, the X1900 XT circa Q2 2006… yes.. fair trial comparing the card against a card that is 2 years and 2 generations older… 😛 IIRC The GeForce 7950 GT was knocking around when the X1900 XT came on the scene so really it’s no wonder they wanted to compare it with an old Nvidia card – to make the ATI ‘look’ better than it actually was and to make SLI ‘look’ like it sucked 😛
If you really don’t need a master card, why do they make them if they’re making a compatible motherboard too? Because you need them, but can’t find them… but I wouldn’t be surprised if they updated the chipset on the motherboard recently because no one could find a mastercard lol…. Yes it does have to be same spec mastercard btw.. atleast it used to be anyways, literally had to be identical, except a master -_- Then the catch was you couldn’t get a master, because they didn’t really exist and when they did it was for a model different to your own. Crossfire was also out a year before you got your card btw…
Know what you’re talking about before you open your mouth, maybe you need a title under your forum name 😛
Crossfire was NOT out when I got my card at all.. It was only announced in 2005 .. It came out a lil after my card was released or around the same time as there was a 1900XT master card released, It was around the same time I convinced Mcqueen to change from Nvidia to Ati.. he’s never looked back since! and he rated Sli as if he worked for Nvidia and got comission
They compared teh 6800GT x 2 in SLI againt the X1900XT because thats all Nvidia had out, and apparently they thought it was fast as fook.. but the one single card showed them it wasnt.. then I think the 7800 came out, which couldnt compete with the 1900xt either.. unless you put that in Sli mode.. but at twice the price!
I’ve shown you a link I just popped in google, where the fuck do you get this shit from that you cant get the master cards? I could go crossfire tomorrow if I had the coin.. its simple to find the cards :/
Anyhoos I just remembered who I was discussing things with and what part of your body you talk with. Its pointless having a discusion with you, you ALWAYS know best so I’ll leave it there
I’ll go with what someone who once said Nvidia was the best thing since sliced bread, but after experiencing both, has decided that Crossfire is the better of the two
Noob!
I had my 7800 GT a year before the X1900 XT came out…
I had a 5900 Ultra in 2003 … a 7800 GT in 2005 and guess what came out in between, in 2004? The 6800 GT…
When I got my 7800 GT my friend bought an X1800 – the X1800 came out a year before the X1900 and it came out a year AFTER the 6800… so I really can’t see how Nvidia could only have had a 6800 vs a X1900… considering the 7800’s and 7900’s followed it!! After he had problems with his ATI (mostly by not being able to get crossfire setup) he took it back and got a 7800 GT too… we ran them in SLI for a while whilst going through F.E.A.R. 🙄 Soo… they could have just as easily ran 2x 7950’s in SLI vs an X1900 XT… but then that also wouldn’t be a fair test because 1 on 1 they’re pretty similar anyway and 2 of them would just wtfpwn the solo X1900 XT…
Go crossfire tomorrow, I dare you 😛 Better still, try going back in time and go Crossfire in Q4 2005, it was nigh on impossible, though it may be a bit easier by now…
Read through your PC stats there Fluffy and I don’t think I’m alone when I noticed there was one glaringly HUGE omission. No PC these days is komplete (see what I did there) without one of these:
Hard as fucking rock PC add-on
If you don’t buy this as well we’ll all think you’re a gheyer.
I dont think he smokes 🙂
And his CD Drive would cover as a beverage holder
Save your money and get a mirror for your monitor.. you can see who’s coming up behind you then.. every PC should have one
@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
I dont think he smokes 🙂
He could always use the lighter socket to charge his phone!
@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
I dont think he smokes 🙂
And his CD Drive would cover as a beverage holder
Save your money and get a mirror for your monitor.. you can see who’s coming up behind you then.. every PC should have one
Oh yeah, that’s right Insane, only think of the ‘now’ and not even begin to think about the future. Maybe Fluffy is thinking about taking up smoking, and perhaps in a few years he’ll be a raging alcoholic, and glad to have an extra holder for his can of Special Brew.
Look at the bigger picture Insane.
Look at the bigger picture…
@LeGIt wrote:
#1 Forget about Crossfire. It’s hard enough as it is to find a Mastercard… it’s as nice as Nvidia’s SLi but it’s much harder to track down compatible cards to make it work whereas Nvidia are much easier and much more forgiving to mix and match.
#2 Forget about multiple cores. Nice yes, but most games don’t support them; you will get better gaming performance for the majority of games on a damned good single core for the price, maybe even cheaper.
#3 Forget about Vista. On it’s own it is nice enough and it works, but not much else works for it. By the time Vista will be of any use to you, you will be due for a new PC again anyway… also it’s not really worth going for anything less than Ultimate and if you want to make use of all 4gb of that RAM + your VRAM you’re going to need a x64-bit version.
Jesus christ monkey balls……..
I thought all of the things you said in the “you will live longer going 200mph” thread was BS but this has got to be the worst/least thought about statment i have read this year…..
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