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Card Flexibility
Radeon™ X1900
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Radeon™ X1800
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CrossFire
Xpress 3200 Reviews
CrossFire
Xpress 3200 Awards
CrossFire
Xpress 1600 Reviews
Card Flexibility
Francesco Ferrari – PC Magazine -Italia
"ATI’s CrossFire
system, on paper, seems to solve the main issues related
to the use of two graphics cards for gaming, especially
for the relative flexibility when choosing the second
graphics card."
Andreas Schilling, Hardwareluxx, Germany
"ATI can guarantee that
whoever the manufacturer of the Radeon CrossFire Edition
graphics card is, it will work together with any
other graphics card in the X850 or X800 series."
Manfred Bertuch, Heise.de, Germany
"A X850-CrossFire-Card can
be combined with every card of the X850 family (XT-PE,
XT, Pro or Standard). The two cards can have different
clock speeds and pipeline amounts. Even the BIOS versions,
the graphics card memories and the manufacturer can
be different."
Julien Jay, Clubic.com
"ATI does not use any internal bridge
to connect the two graphics boards, which enables
it to be more flexible on the level of the supported
models. Thus CrossFire technology is compatible with
all current Radeon X800 and X850 PCIE cards (X800,
X800 Pro, X800 XT, X800 XT EP, X800
XL, X850 Pro, X850 XT, X850 XT EP) and this irrespective
of manufacturer or BIOS version."
HardOCP.com
"Right now, everyone who owns an X800 or X850
series graphics card, or who goes out and buys one off
the shelf, already supports ATI’s CrossFire multiple
graphics card configuration. This is a great plus for
gamers because those of you that already own an X800
or X850 series graphics card are only two steps away
from being able to set up a multiple video card system
with it."
AnandTech.com
"
NVIDIA's SLI solution is restricted
to running on not only the same model of card, but
cards with the same video BIOS.
Timing is crucial when hooking the two GPUs together
for SLI. In
fact, an out-of-spec SLI bridge
can even cause problems."
GamingNexus.com
"
So there you have ATI’s CrossFire
technology. I do like the aspect
that if I already own a powerful ATI card, the card won’t
be obsolete when upgrading to a
multi-GPU solution. I also don’t have to worry
about matching brands or speeds with the master
card."
