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Radeon X1600 Pro Single & Crossfire Video Card Review
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Posted by Donster on: 2006-07-05 15:48:33 768
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By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D
Today my friends, we will have a look at the a low-end performance Crossfire solution. ATI has been working really hard to to stray away from the criticism on Crossfire when they first launched it, and with success. For the X800 series we where some severe limitation in resolution which now are gone, but the most dreadful item of Crossfire all boiled down to a silly y-cable that interconnects the two cards. With a new mainboard generation (RD580) of ATI chipset based solutions, ATI had a trump in their hands, the mainboard can transport huge amounts of data in-between the PCI-Express (PCIe) graphics slots...and they figured... instead of using that cable...why not transfer the compositing data over the PCIe bus and utilize that available bandwidth so we can leave out that Y-cable. So for their low and mid range line of products, you can now easily do Crossfire without that dreaded cable and even better, without a need to buy an expensive "master" card.
Read on...
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