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R520 cooler snapped in odd circumstances
WE HAVE LONG REPORTED that the G70 will be a single slot graphics card, and now word out of Computex is that the R520 will be as well. Here is a picture of the cooler for it, it is clearly a single slot thing. Forgive the quality, it was taken under curious circumstances, and then had to be blown way up. Don't ask. µ
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Master cards are ATI Crossfire edition cards
T'S TIME TO reveal one of the last facts before ATI introduces its Crossfire, MutiVPU, SLI competitor system. ATI will reveal this system very early on the 31st of May. This time it's all about its Master cards.
I've had a MasterCard for a while but I can pay my bills with mine while you won't be able to pay in restaurant with ATI card but you will sure be able to settle some scores in shutters with ATI's Crossfire master card. We learned that ATI will make all these cards itself and not even Sapphire will be able to make Crossfire edition master cards. ATI wants full control over this manufacturing process.
ATI will name these cards as X850XT Crossfire edition and XT non Platinum edition will cost $549, for which you will obviously need a valid MasterCard. This card will work with X850XT Platinum edition, X850XT and X850PRO slave cards.
The X800XL Crossfire edition card with 256MB will cost $299 while 128MB card will be priced at $249. This card will work with X800XT Platinum edition, X800XT, X800XL, X800PRO and X800 vanilla slave cards.
All Crossfire Edition cards have High Density DMS+DVI dongle which supports DVI+DVI with cable and supports CRT with adaptor. It should be ready for your display.
Here is a picture of X850 master card. Notice that it looks like most of X850 cards, but just has two DVI outs.
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ATI Crossfire pictured
WE TOLD you many times before about ATI's way of doing SLI commercially known as Crossfire and now we have a picture of His Majesty the famous dongle and the board itself.
Even though Nvidia US thinks of me as ATI biased, the Canadian firm never showed me this system up and running while every other NDA journalist has seen it at least once, while most grovelly and bum sucking have seen it three times now.
Crossfire will be based on two chipsets - one Pentium 775 read powered with RD400 Northbridge and ATI's SB450 Southbridge. In Crossfire ATI cards works as dual 8X PCIe cards. This board is codenamed Stingray.
The second board is based on Athlon 64 / FX socket for AMD CPUs and using RD480 Northbridge and SB450 Southbridge with dual 8X PCIe cards.
Monsieur Le Dongle will connect to two DVI outs and should provide you with lossless quality, although your wallet will be lighter by a lossful quantity after you've lashed out the money for the stuff. Below, you can see the board, cards and dongle itself.
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WE HAVE LONG REPORTED that the G70 will be a single slot graphics card, and now word out of Computex is that the R520 will be as well. Here is a picture of the cooler for it, it is clearly a single slot thing. Forgive the quality, it was taken under curious circumstances, and then had to be blown way up. Don't ask. µ
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Master cards are ATI Crossfire edition cards
T'S TIME TO reveal one of the last facts before ATI introduces its Crossfire, MutiVPU, SLI competitor system. ATI will reveal this system very early on the 31st of May. This time it's all about its Master cards.
I've had a MasterCard for a while but I can pay my bills with mine while you won't be able to pay in restaurant with ATI card but you will sure be able to settle some scores in shutters with ATI's Crossfire master card. We learned that ATI will make all these cards itself and not even Sapphire will be able to make Crossfire edition master cards. ATI wants full control over this manufacturing process.
ATI will name these cards as X850XT Crossfire edition and XT non Platinum edition will cost $549, for which you will obviously need a valid MasterCard. This card will work with X850XT Platinum edition, X850XT and X850PRO slave cards.
The X800XL Crossfire edition card with 256MB will cost $299 while 128MB card will be priced at $249. This card will work with X800XT Platinum edition, X800XT, X800XL, X800PRO and X800 vanilla slave cards.
All Crossfire Edition cards have High Density DMS+DVI dongle which supports DVI+DVI with cable and supports CRT with adaptor. It should be ready for your display.
Here is a picture of X850 master card. Notice that it looks like most of X850 cards, but just has two DVI outs.
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ATI Crossfire pictured
WE TOLD you many times before about ATI's way of doing SLI commercially known as Crossfire and now we have a picture of His Majesty the famous dongle and the board itself.
Even though Nvidia US thinks of me as ATI biased, the Canadian firm never showed me this system up and running while every other NDA journalist has seen it at least once, while most grovelly and bum sucking have seen it three times now.
Crossfire will be based on two chipsets - one Pentium 775 read powered with RD400 Northbridge and ATI's SB450 Southbridge. In Crossfire ATI cards works as dual 8X PCIe cards. This board is codenamed Stingray.
The second board is based on Athlon 64 / FX socket for AMD CPUs and using RD480 Northbridge and SB450 Southbridge with dual 8X PCIe cards.
Monsieur Le Dongle will connect to two DVI outs and should provide you with lossless quality, although your wallet will be lighter by a lossful quantity after you've lashed out the money for the stuff. Below, you can see the board, cards and dongle itself.
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