All of us ATI fans will soon be laughing our asses off! 8)

...at leats if we have lots of CA$H...heheheh! ;D

ATI Crossfire preview... ;)

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Previews/aticrossfiretech/

OMFG! :o

Also, they remind me of my nice V2 SLI setup of bygone days (before I moved to a V5500 PCI)...aah the memories! ;D

Cool!! Dig that crazy Medusa cable 8)

Make me want to upgrade again ;D

wrote on 10.06.05 at 00:53:06:

All of us ATI fans

Argh!

>:(

:P

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Argh! >:( :P

Whatcha' mean "ARGH!"... ???

...if you check the forum, you'll find that a LOT of 3Dfx fans are also people who like ATI stuff... :D

...and don't particularly lean towards nVidia! >:(

That's okay, everybody does what everybody wants!

But, as far as I can, I always try not to have anything from NVidia and ATI in my PCs... that's all!

;D

Actually, I never had anything from them... just an integrated chip that I don't use.

I also choose for the once ever underdog ATi, thier cards just have way better image quallity, had a 6800 once, FS 2004 had lot's of terrible artifacts on the buildings, and when I used my old Hercules 9700 Pro, they were gone, even OpenGL looks nicer on an ATi, okay they maybe slower than NV cards in OpenGL it's just because that the image quallity is alot better , therefore heavier to render.

So I rather go for a card that gives better Image quallity with 70 frame than a card with worse quallity at 140 frames., I have leaned alot from ATi.

ATi Crossfire X850XT with an ATi X850XT PE rocks, they even can beat the 7800 SLI set in some cases.
Just look how sweet, and yeah it sure looks alot like 3dfx did with the Voodoo2 Scane Line Interleave idea.

Click to enlarge :)
http://img.neoseeker.com/v_thumb.php?articleid=1803&image=15

This stuff will pump up your electricity bill a lot!

:P

BTW, are there some web pages to get an idea of how much a PC needs to run? To make some calculations on how much it makes people spend?

Okay this was off topic

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I rather go for a card that gives better Image quallity with 70 frame than a card with worse quallity at 140 frames.

I also prefer IQ over speed, to a point that is.

You could probably get the same speed from the ATI rig if you dumb down the IQ to look like the NV. But you can't always get the NV to look as good as the ATI.

I totally Agree!, Ati PWNzzz :)

still got the Rage Fury MAXX :) ATi's first ever Multi chip Video card, it used MAXX technology which ran on a AFR [Alternate Frame Rendering] basis

here's my nice ATi Rage Fury MAXX card, sorry about the Voodoo3's above it hehe:

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/albums/album88/DSC00538.thumb.jpg

a very nice piece also, it's from week 52 , 1999 :)  a Rev.E 9952 :)

NV stole 3dfx away, which still irritates me seeing them doing thier thing, with a much lower Image Quallity, it's thier name you normally pay for.

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sorry about the Voodoo3's above it

They should be above the Fury Maxx as they perform better  ;D

I have recently done lots of game testing using older ati cards. Running the Maxx on my 1ghz pentium 3 & Win 98 system with various popular games like: Quake 3, Soldier of Fortune, Serious Sam, Porsche Unleashed, Unreal Tournament and many more, all exhibited the same type of behaviour of not feeling fluid during gameplay. Even when setting a game's options up so that fraps showed what should have been excellent gaming fps, games just felt laggy and unresponsive.

The same games running on the same system with a voodoo 3 were much more enjoyable to play, although to be fair they looked a bit better on the Maxx in 32 bit colour, but the Voodoo 3 was far superiour for pure gaming enjoyment  ;)

As for comparing the Maxx to the similar dual gpu 64mb Voodoo 5500, no contest whatsoever, 3dfx by far had the the much better SLI technology and better looking 32 bit colour output as well.

Only until the release of the Radeon 7500 did ati have a card that could somewhat compete with a Voodoo 5500  ;)

Ati's new approach will have to much better than the AFR technique used in the Maxx or it will be received about as well as the Maxx was  :P

yeaps, I bought my ATi rage Fury MAXX Rev.E 9902 for 35 Euro's from a Marktplaats.nl a dutch type of ebay, I couldn't leave it, here a nicer pic of it :)

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/albums/album92/DSC00582.thumb.jpg

Such a nice looking thing though.

ATi That's the way It's meant to be Played for futrestuff that is hehe

I got two brand new ones (boxed and shrink wrapped) for $25 Canadian at a local shop about 6 months ago.

Probably a must have card (if you collect ati cards like me that is).

Is there a technical limitation/reason that would'nt allow a dual gpu card to run on pci express, I would think it would be far more cost effective than to have to purchase two individual cards at  $500 +  ???

I guess the Power consumption would far exceed all PCIe limitations, so would cooling (unless one accepts one of those ultra-massive and noisy cooling designs).

IMHO, at the current power levels, the times of Dual GPU Boards on a single PCB are over.

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the times of Dual GPU Boards on a single PCB are over.

2 Voodoo2 cards connected via a floppy cable was way ahead of it's time ;D

@FalconFly,

You could'nt get the required power above and beyond the rated specs of pci express from plugging the card into the power supply via a molex connector ?

Sure, but it would still leave one with the insane Cooling Problems (and the noise level accordingly).

I still have the jet noise from my XGI Volari V8 Duo Ultra in mind, absolutely inacceptable :P

make me remind of the nVidia eForceFX 5800 ULTRA :|, TM30 you've gopt one of those right? what are your experiences with it?