Tuesday, November 13th 2007

Working AMD Phenom/RD790 System with Quad Crossfire Radeon HD 3850 Pictured

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46 Comments on Working AMD Phenom/RD790 System with Quad Crossfire Radeon HD 3850 Pictured

#1
sam0t
One word: Sick!

And I was foolish enough to think that SLI/Crossfire was the peak of idiocrazy in 3D card world, but now this!
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#2
paul06660
They finally did!!!!!!:D
Prices are about right on AMD and ATI stuff too!!!!!:D
Somewhere in the world right now, there is an Nvidia Video card Getting upset and 86'ing itself like a true Samauri would after defeat in battle!!!!!:nutkick:
Now show us some benchmarks please!!!!!
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#3
DaJMasta
Four of everything......



Insane, and expensive, but neat that it works. I wonder if quad crossfire is anything close to even 3x the performance of one card, I think it counts as a win if they can hit 3x or above with good drivers and such.
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#4
tvdang7
man 4 cards for only 3x performance? sounds kinda dumb but its probably gonna be like that :(
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#5
ccleorina
Man..... Should i go Intel or AMD.... damm..... then i have to change to AMD and run quad x-fire...:banghead: But.... Damm..... Nice one from AMD and ATI....:rockout:

Insane, and expensive:banghead:
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#6
Nyte
You guys ever heard of Octa-fire?

4x 3870x2
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#7
JoJoe
The heatsink on the CPU looks interesting...
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#8
OnBoard
Surround image ?) 8 widescreen displays should be enough for that, no idea if there is a working software or game though :P

Looks cool, but silly too :)
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#9
Deleted member 3
tvdang7man 4 cards for only 3x performance? sounds kinda dumb but its probably gonna be like that :(
If they can get a 200% increase in performance it would be pretty good. ie an improvement of 66% per extra card. Few things scale that well.
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#10
DrunkenMafia
Are you going to be able to run quad xfire with an intel platform??? There are not to many amd boards out there that support crossfire funny enough. I wonder if amd are keeping the quad crossfire to their own chipsets???

Any one know????
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#11
wiak
DrunkenMafiaAre you going to be able to run quad xfire with an intel platform??? There are not to many amd boards out there that support crossfire funny enough. I wonder if amd are keeping the quad crossfire to their own chipsets???

Any one know????
amd ftw
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#12
Grings
DrunkenMafiaAre you going to be able to run quad xfire with an intel platform??? There are not to many amd boards out there that support crossfire funny enough. I wonder if amd are keeping the quad crossfire to their own chipsets???

Any one know????
i think msi's x38 has an extra pci-e controller chip for that exact purpose

note the second chip by southbridge
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#13
lemonadesoda
This is how I read this:

The AMD CPUs are not performing competitively enough against Intel. The Intel's are pwning them in the benchmarks. The ONLY SOLUTION FOR AMD is to stick 4 GPUs into the PC to win the benchmark crown. Aint going to help Super-pi though. :roll:
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#14
Xaser04
The only problem with that is horrific cpu limitation.
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#15
von kain
i really can use it they will ban me from the electric company :wtf:
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#16
[I.R.A]_FBi
ATi chipsets (and quadfire) is coming to intel next year.
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#17
PVTCaboose1337
Graphical Hacker
Wow that is really cool... I want one... I mean 4.
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#18
Tatty_Two
Gone Fishing
DrunkenMafiaAre you going to be able to run quad xfire with an intel platform??? There are not to many amd boards out there that support crossfire funny enough. I wonder if amd are keeping the quad crossfire to their own chipsets???

Any one know????
X38's next generation?
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#20
mdm-adph
Wow, that's a... that's a lot of video cards.

I wonder -- do you just hook them up with 3 regular Xfire connections, or do you need a special longer one (like it looks like they have in the picture)?
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#21
phanbuey
WOAH... i really want this, then i can use onboard sound(or AMD's crappy gfx card onboard sound) :wtf:. MAYBE with the 2xR670s this would be an awesome platform, but you wouldnt have that, since 2xR670s come with dual slot coolers. This is a nice idea for a folding machine or a workstation tho... :laugh: @ no spiders or ghouls on the box - awesome.
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#22
DaJMasta
lemonadesodaThis is how I read this:

The AMD CPUs are not performing competitively enough against Intel. The Intel's are pwning them in the benchmarks. The ONLY SOLUTION FOR AMD is to stick 4 GPUs into the PC to win the benchmark crown. Aint going to help Super-pi though. :roll:
But nVidia is doing the exact same thing (it's even a news item farther down the page....)
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#23
newbielives
And yet not a single benchmark to show for

Does that setup even beat a QX6850 with 2 x 8800Ultra SLI ?
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#24
Ser-J
man.........can't imagine popping my case and seeing freakin' 4 GPUs in there.....and they are all red in color too.
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#25
trt740
sam0tOne word: Sick!

And I was foolish enough to think that SLI/Crossfire was the peak of idiocrazy in 3D card world, but now this!
one word stupid thats flat out dumb. thats like driving a jumbo jet to work
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