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Originally Posted by Akuma

You could always wait until the G70/R520 are out. G70 is supposed to go into production in the next few weeks.


Crossfire has some major weaknesses (along with SLI). Who knows how much a Master X800XT (or a X850XT for that matter) will be. ATI isn't exactly great about delivering new products. It will probably be $50-$100 more MSRP - but over $200 more due to that fact that ATI can't get them out.

Plus an ATI motherboard is very oOo: They aren't exactly known for good chipsets.





For now I say go A64 with an NF4 SLI motherboard, throw in an X800XL and a gig of RAM and you're good to go. We'll see what's out when you are ready to buy.

I don't see a crossfire x800xt costing much more than a regular version, pci-e x800xt's as far as im aware are easier to come by simply for the fact that not a lot of people have a pci-e motherboard. The card ati had problems delivering was the platinum edition and not really the regular xt versions.

As for the ati motherboard, seeing as this is gonna be their main platform for dual cards theyre gonna have to make it good, i can see them having frequent driver updates for it. As for the memory, 2 gigs is definately needed these days especially for newer games coming out, i usually have just 670mb of free ram when im in windows mode and i try to run with minimum background apps.