Finding Crossfire cards and Crossfire capable motherboards is turning out to
be an impossible task. Even though numerous reports that Crossfire cards
were supposed to be available in June and Crossfire Motherboards in July --
I have yet to see any in the retail channels.

I think it will happen, but I think I'll hold off on the first revision of
the motherboards and cards until I can see some concrete reviews. I'm
guessing it'll be more like Sept/Oct before this hardware starts to trickle
out to the real world.

"jkb" <nospam> wrote in message
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>> Maximum PC had an article on the ATI Crossfire tech -- it looks very
>> promising and a lot more compatible than nVidia's implementation.
>
> It is newer than SLI. If you get - please tell me and post results - I'd
> *love* to see how well it works!
>
>

> Finding Crossfire cards and Crossfire capable motherboards is turning out
to
> be an impossible task. Even though numerous reports that Crossfire cards
> were supposed to be available in June and Crossfire Motherboards in
July --
> I have yet to see any in the retail channels.

It's a pity, probably they are scarce because it's so new.

> I think it will happen, but I think I'll hold off on the first revision of
> the motherboards and cards until I can see some concrete reviews. I'm
> guessing it'll be more like Sept/Oct before this hardware starts to
trickle
> out to the real world.

Hopefully it'll be sooner.

No rush, so long as it happens this year. Besides I dropped in 2GB of
PC3200 400Mhz Corsair extreme performance CL2 and it works better than my
1GB PC4000 500Mhz Corsair extreme performance CL3 -- go figure! FS9.1 is
running very well right now, 45 fps avg even at 1600 x 1200 4X AA and 8XAF
with detail turned up high and lots of AI traffic with third party
scenery/terrain mesh and aircraft and ActiveSkyV. Think I've finally found
the magic compromises needed to make this setup work well.

Just wish 3rd party AC were more compatible with my GoFlight controls.

Rob.

"jkb" <nospam> wrote in message
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>> Finding Crossfire cards and Crossfire capable motherboards is turning out
> to
>> be an impossible task. Even though numerous reports that Crossfire cards
>> were supposed to be available in June and Crossfire Motherboards in
> July --
>> I have yet to see any in the retail channels.
>
> It's a pity, probably they are scarce because it's so new.
>
>> I think it will happen, but I think I'll hold off on the first revision
>> of
>> the motherboards and cards until I can see some concrete reviews. I'm
>> guessing it'll be more like Sept/Oct before this hardware starts to
> trickle
>> out to the real world.
>
> Hopefully it'll be sooner.
>
>

> No rush, so long as it happens this year. Besides I dropped in 2GB of
> PC3200 400Mhz Corsair extreme performance CL2 and it works better than my
> 1GB PC4000 500Mhz Corsair extreme performance CL3 -- go figure! FS9.1 is
> running very well right now, 45 fps avg even at 1600 x 1200 4X AA and 8XAF
> with detail turned up high and lots of AI traffic with third party
> scenery/terrain mesh and aircraft and ActiveSkyV. Think I've finally
found
> the magic compromises needed to make this setup work well.

Good! If double RAM size has such a impact on performace(even though it's
slower) - then maybe double VRAM size(the 512MB XL) would give a even bigger
impact(even though it's slower) - it's possible.

>Just wish 3rd party AC were more compatible with my GoFlight controls

Rob,

Goflight just release a new version of their control software, adding
support for the LD767 among other things:
http://www.goflightinc.com/support.shtml

===
Katy P.
MS_MVP for Flight Simulator

Visit Project Magenta!
http://www.promagenta.com

Katy,

Thanks, I have 1.50, but I'll get 1.53 ASAP -- looks like it solve many of
my issues with mapping to other 3rd party AC.

I love my GoFlight gear and their support.

"Katy Pluta (MS_MVP)" <katypluta@hotmail.invalid> wrote in message
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> >Just wish 3rd party AC were more compatible with my GoFlight controls
>
> Rob,
>
> Goflight just release a new version of their control software, adding
> support for the LD767 among other things:
> http://www.goflightinc.com/support.shtml
>
> ===
> Katy P.
> MS_MVP for Flight Simulator
>
> Visit Project Magenta!
> http://www.promagenta.com