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Danas su se pojavili prvi Crossfire testovi i kako kazu po raznim review sajtovima, nije nista posebno...
AnandTech
Despite exceptional performance at its target resolutions, we have to strongly recommend against the purchase of an X800/X850 series CrossFire card. We have a hard time recommending all but the absolute top end NVIDIA 7800 GTX SLI as a viable solution.
Beyond3D
It's fairly clear that when ATI introduced their PCI Express Radeon lines they didn't consider at that point on using them for multiple graphics board rendering and as such they have ended up with a few compromises...
Digit-Life
One thing is clear: this technology (CrossFire) appeared too late; it will be very hard to compete with NVIDIA SLI, considering what foothold SLI has already gained on the market...
DriverHeaven
At this time though it (CrossFire) is no match for a 7800 SLI system in terms of outright performance and feature set (SM3) and because of this it’s hard to recommend when weighed again Nvidia's SLI...
ExtremeTech
But ATI's new dual-graphics technology is not without drawbacks. The DVI dongle seems a bit clunky compared with a nice little internal card-link like the one used for SLI, and the need to buy a special "CrossFire Edition" card instead of just any additional matched graphics card is kind of a bummer.
FiringSquad
That’s right, the rumors you’ve been hearing about CrossFire being limited to 1600x1200 max resolution at a headache-inducing 60Hz are unfortunately true. How ATI’s engineers could have overlooked this limitation when developing CrossFire - a product which doesn’t really shine until you crank up the screen resolutions - is pretty baffling.
HardOCP
We want to make some comparisons between CrossFire and SLI. We will start with installation. Simply put, CrossFire is more complex and harder to set up than SLI.
Hexus
The current downsides massively outweight the good points that do their best to shine through. Too late by far, this level of Crossfire would have been relevant a few months ago before the launch of NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT and GTX...
PC Perspective
That being said, you can probably guess that I don’t think much of the Radeon XPress 200 CrossFire Edition chipset as it stands now; the nForce4 chipset just has a lot more to offer and didn’t cut any of the corners that ATI has done...
t-break
With that said, we now come to the question of who will buy CrossFire. Frankly speaking, we don’t know anyone who would want to. Not because of the issues mentioned above but because ATI is a bit too late with it.
The Tech Report
Other CrossFire shortcomings will likely be addressed with the release of new ATI graphics hardware, including the resolution/refresh rate ceiling of 1600x1200 at 60Hz. However, some CrossFire idiosyncracies probably won't be going away any time soon, including the need for a separate CrossFire Edition master card, those pesky external cables, and the relatively pokey PCI and USB performance of the Radeon Xpress 200 south bridge.
TrustedReviews
So, going back to my original question, was CrossFire worth the wait? Well in its current guise probably not. In my opinion ATI should have waited for the R520 to appear before launching CrossFire...
