drscouse Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 just got an Opty 146, and am researchin for a new rig setup... at present lookin at MSI Diamond Plus, DFI Expert of ASUS A8N32... but you can see my problem all SLI boards... sending me down the Nvidia road...!!!Ive always had ATI cards.. and only recently sold my AGP x850xt (after 2 weeks!!!), cos I discovered the unleashable power of the Opty, and did not want to miss out on such a cracker!!!Theres not much choice for CrossFire boards, and there are to be expected teething problems, while SLI is now established and running great by all accounts....Would anyone really buy an SLI board, and choose an ATI video card... is this not just computer suicide, as you would be killing off any possibility of adding a second graphics card...My dilema then boils down to the 7800GT or the x1800XL... both of which have their pros and cons, in games such as FEAR and HL2... but with an SLI board seemingly the only sensible option, does this rule out ATI all together... Im not a hardcore gamer, but want the best from what I do play.. and certainly dont want to rule out the possibility of dual vga, by adding a second card at a later date...A month has gone by since I got my Cpty.. and I dont know how much longer I can hold out!!!
ripken204 Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 lots of ppl do this, they want a great board like the dfi expert so that they can oveclock vry well. it wont decrease the performance of the ati card. i have an evga 7800gt i can run pretty much all games on all extrea high settings. when i say pretty much, that means that FEAR gets kinda laggy on 4xAF and 16xAA, so im running it at 4xAF and 8xAA.
drscouse Posted December 31, 2005 Author Posted December 31, 2005 (edited) Im not asking if it will decrease ATI performance, simply that is it not a bit of a waste getting a board capable of SLI, and then buying an ATI card, which ultimately would prevent you from running dual vga... Surely this must play a large part on card/board selection, and as there are not many good CrossFire capable boards, you have no choice but to go SLI, and then Nvidia, otherwise you will lose the added functionality an SLI board provides...I suppose this is the trade off you make... Edited December 31, 2005 by drscouse
ripken204 Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 (edited) well you could just get the dfi nf4 ultra-d if u wanted to, or just get an nvidia cardand there is also this mobohttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813136165 Edited December 31, 2005 by ripken204
Vitalix Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 I have heard that they released the crossfire to early. Lots of problems; they rushed it to market a little too soon. As of right now, the nVidia cards rock ATI in most games. Some may say b/c the ATI drivers have not caught up yet.It comes down to upgrade path for you. If you game a lot, then the only upgrade you may need a year from now would be just a second SLI nVidia card. If you go ATI, you will have to sell off your video card and get 2 new nvidia SLI cards. Both have merits. One is less sticky.If you go nVidia now, you just buy a second one later, but will have to shop for one with the same stepping (preferable) or at least the same type of GPU. The upside of the ATI approach is that when you do upgrade to nVidia pairs down the road, the video cards will likely be cheaper at that point in time (e.g. the 7800GT which is $320 now might be $220 then).
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