Ati, Ati and Ati!!!

[balilu]

WE HAVE LONG REPORTED that the G70 will be a single slot graphics card, and now word out of Computex is that the R520 will be as well. Here is a picture of the cooler for it, it is clearly a single slot thing

Source: The Inquirer

This is great because sometimes it hurts when you lose a pci slot because of the vga. altough you still won't use the next pci/pci-x slot beacuse it would stop the air to cool the vga

ATI claims that its Crossfire will be compatible with all games. All games should get performance increase while this should not be the case with Nvidia SLI platform. Compared with two 6800 Ultra in SLI, ATI's Crossfire should end up about 10 per cent faster in 3Dmark05 benchmark, about 30 percent in Splinter cell C.T game and more than 60 percent in Need For Speed Underground 2 game. ATI is talking about results gathered from testing SLI and Crossfire platforms on 1600x1200 resolution, with 4X FSAA and 8X aniso, Athlon 64, 1GB DDR 400 memory, RD480 motherboard with 8.151 driver. ATI used two X850 XT Crossfire cards versus Asus SLI Deluxe board, 71.89 drivers, and two 6800 Ultra cards in SLI. Compared with single X850 XT PE card, Crossfire cards performs 10 percent faster in 3Dmark03, more than 60 percent faster in old Return to Castle Wolfenstein and almost 100 percent faster in Splinter cell game. Interesting choice of games, I wonder are those the games that show the biggest difference. We don’t even doubt that.

Source: The Inquirer

for you guys who don't know Crossfire is an Ati's alternate to Nvidia's SLI. it's rumored that it could support up to how many vgas you want. and it works on all games not like SLI.

Crossfire will be based on two chipsets - one Pentium 775 read powered with RD400 Northbridge and ATI's SB450 Southbridge. In Crossfire ATI cards works as dual 8X PCIe cards. This board is codenamed Stingray. The second board is based on Athlon 64 / FX socket for AMD CPUs and using RD480 Northbridge and SB450 Southbridge with dual 8X PCIe cards. Monsieur Le Dongle will connect to two DVI outs and should provide you with lossless quality, although your wallet will be lighter by a lossful quantity after you've lashed out the money for the stuff. Below, you can see the board, cards and dongle itself.

Source: The Inquirer

i liked the idea about the "lossless quality" but still i don't think it will make any difference.

glad to have shared this news from The Inquirer

EDIT: this may be moved to the ATI Section for got to create it there. Thanks to any mod who decides to move it

 

[FarFarAway]

Don't think I'll move this to the news section as its from the Inquirer and I would prefer a better source. BUT nice post Balilu

 

[ionicle_old]

interisting! to say the least! lol

 

[FarFarAway]

Here is the Inquirer's piccy of the thing....don't think I like the crappy dongle on it??

Still, it is the Inquirer...once I see a more reputable source, then I'll post in the Tech News area!!

 

[balilu]

Still, it is the Inquirer...once I see a more reputable source, then I'll post in the Tech News area!!

yeah i think you shouldn't post it. the inquirer says alot of things which were, are and will be rumors for ever. lol