[i dont know about you grape but my 9600p is getting a little slow at running bf2 and cs:s
]
YEah, unfortunately I don't notice it because no time for gaming (too busy drinking at the Stampede
). I unfortunately don't game enough at this time (still haven't opened my copy of FartCry, Riddick, KillSwitch and BF:Vietnam (let alone BF2). I haven't bothered because in about 2 weeks (when work winds down a bit) I'm wiping the harddrive again, maybe do some benchmark runs, replace the R9600P with the AIW PCI and turn the rig into a media PC, or give it away (I have 2 DVD recorders now so depending on frustration level maybe no Media PC). At that point is when the motivation to build is going to take hold.
Along those lines I'm thinking X800XL or even plain X800. Crossfiring these might be nice, but that's as a future consideration, and what will truely motivate me then is the R530/RV530 properties. I still want cool, quiet and efficient, but I like having at least some power, so we'll see, and 2 crossfired X800s or X800XLs means no power cords still. The advanatage of the X800 over the X800XL is as a transition card, and so selling it to friends may take Crossfire also out of the question. I have a feeling this card will last alot less than the R9600P.
I think the thing about the delay of Crossfire is that it's so late in the game now, that they aren't worried about nV, they want to get it out there in time for people mulling over their options with their X800XT/XL/X850XT/etc cards when they launch the R520, etc. At this point there's little to force their hand, and while it would be nice to have Crossfire in retail and reviewed more wiedely, there's not a killer need for it. You can say for the minority of people who would go with it (maybe 5-10% of the ATi population) this is definitely late in coming and they missed the opportunity of releasing it before the GF7800GTX, but it's such a small consideration that I think it will arrive just when people need it most, when they are deciding what to upgrade to. The top performance nuts weren't ever going to make them serious money, and since they never got the MoBos out fast enough, there's not that crossover licensing benifit like SLi enjoyed. The biggest influence if anything will be the downward pressure on nV SLi pricing on the MoBo side of things.
I think they could've had sufficient yield for a hard launch before but pricing would've be alot higher (you can always do a hard launch with small volumes, just price the R520 like an FX57, and voila, hard launch but shipping 1/4 of the cards of a $599-699 priced launch.
oh btw great clip grape
Glad someone got a chuckle out of it.
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