the x2 achieve only abit to ultra mah...

if 9600GT gives u silky smooth gameplay, there's no point in upgrading to a 8800GT

actually those cards even though have dual cores and dual PCBs are not considered crossfire and SLI if they are on their own i.e. 1 unit....

they may have dual cores etc but they are still a single card.

u can only consider it as crossfire or SLI when it takes up 2 or more PCIe slots.

must well wait 4 the 9800GX2 then liddat more umph ma the most worth it extra 1.5k evah 4 sure

more money spend on GC more UMPH you get

just got myself 9600gt, is it that nvidia capped the core clock to 740mhz? Beyond 740 the comp will just blackout, and i saw something like nvidia made a chip to limit it beyond that. But just now when i am using the newer driver i can oc to 740 and run atitools artifact scanner for somewhile. But i found some funny prob with TF2, i clear everything and install the older driver which came with the card itself and the prob was gone. But now when i oc to 740, i open atitools, it gave me a blackout.

I heard from cstkl1 said his 3870X2 ROG version can run dual monitor, but, it should b considered as a single card solution at the moment. Better let cstkl1 explains.

But if anyone take the reference 3870X2, its confirmed to be operating in CF mode once everything is installed. I was with the distro yesterday when they tested it, the card is absolute magnificent. Just the heat and the noise factor to be considered. Now waiting for the ROG version to be available and tested.

heard somewhere that the new drivers got limit, that is they capp the limit---higher than that will freeze...happened to my 7600 when use latest drivers.. the driver with gc can oc higher but fps with old driver not so fsat as new driver...so old driver oc more but no oc fps lower....newer driver less oc but fps higher think fps higher is better--no? newer driver better optimised..

seriously bro i only understand half off ur post

It's the bios limit cap la.
I totally don't understand the 2nd part of your post.

me too.

i read twice...dont get what hes trying to say...
he means new driver<old driver eee...

This seems out of place to be discussing ATI...but in reply to your message, with Catalyst 8.3, there is no need to disable Crossfire to enable multi-monitor under Windows Vista. At least that's what's been promised. Go: http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/ATI_Ca...FireX_and_More/


This post has been edited by clayclws: Mar 2 2008, 04:10 PM

the current 9 series which is 9600 still lose to 8800gt in terms of itz specs, basically the 9600gt is high-end budget graphic card, but i would still prefer to go for 8800gt lo..but in the future we never noe rite?

and ATi SUCKS WEN AMD BOUGHT OVER THEM! sad~ ati used to dominate nvidia~ o well..NVIDIA ROCKS <3

Since when 9600GT is meant for high-end budget graphic card? This 9600GT is meant to replace 8600GTS, which can only be considered as the highest performance model in mid-low range graphic

9600GT high end?

& woah woah woah please prove your bold sentence with facts or STFU!

This post has been edited by skylinegtr34rule4life: Mar 2 2008, 10:08 PM

8800GT also beat 9600GT in terms of its price too, bro. <3

he must have had too much sugar in the morning......just blurting things out

lol..well itz meant to be high end BUDGET..according to nvidia tat is~

and proofs? sorry i dun reli have..but if ur a hardcore gamer in the past ..u would notice tat ati beats nvidia before amd bought over them though is hell of a long time ago~

If you are referring to R600. that's not AMD fault. The project started even before the acquisition by AMD.

ati fanboy lol
b4 amd buy oso nvidia pawn ati la
ati merge with amd during the 26/29 series...
if not mistaken... while nvidia pawn ati during the 7series...
no offense but rite now ati kinda sucks
only the 3870x2 on par...