Competitor rules

lee_car · 10 Mar 2006 at 13:04

hi am i right in thinking sli is nvidia? if so what is the ATI equivalent? i am looking to buy the Asus A8R-MVP and see it has 2 pci-e slots, will i be able to run 2 ati cards?

thanks lee

chovi · 10 Mar 2006 at 13:07

Crossfire.

paradigm · 10 Mar 2006 at 13:08

You need a crossfire enabled board (will be obvious which are), to run ATI's crossfire system (SLI equiv).

lee_car · 10 Mar 2006 at 13:09

thanks guys

cheers lee

bbreezeuk · 10 Mar 2006 at 13:17

Nvidia sli X16 will be better than crossfire IMO as i have the asus A8N32 and with the 7900s coming out it wont take long for this baord to have a performance increase over standard sli

Zephyrus · 10 Mar 2006 at 14:16

bbreezeuk said:
Nvidia sli X16 will be better than crossfire IMO as i have the asus A8N32 and with the 7900s coming out it wont take long for this baord to have a performance increase over standard sli

I don't understand that :confused:

Of course with 7900's SLi'd it will be better than 7800's SLi'd. But i don't see how that on it's own makes SLi better than crossfire.

Goksly · 10 Mar 2006 at 14:19

Nvidia should have the lead over xfire, as they had a head start... but before we start counting chickens - check some reviews where crossfire is done on the RD580. Thats meant to give xfire a decent boost.