...cheap and cool. now, if they can just get linux graphics drivers on any distro other than Suse or Redhat, they can have the cash for my next machine.
If hybrid crossfire is effective in using integrated graphics for the windows desktop, etc, and only enabling the graphics card for gaming - that'd be significant power savings and justify the usage of hybrid crossfire in a way your article did not cover.
sideband memory on the motherboard and overclocking the igp get much more result (j&w say the managed 2975 in 3d)
also forget the be series, the athlon 4850 at 45w or phenom 9150e at 65w will give a big boost (don't forget phenom comes with ht 3.0 which doubles the speed)
I think that's the angle nVidia are taking with their incarnation of Hybrid Crossfire, imaginatively named Hybrid SLI. Specifically the bit called HybridPower.
That and the Vista-only requirement make me think it is simply a feature of DX10.1 that both houses are trying to market as original.
A cheap multimonitor machine, right? With both inboard and dedicated graphics you can run up to 4 monitors with no multiplexers. We could use this for some workstations on our company.
Intel Core i7 I7-920 Quad Core Processor (2.66GHz, 4x256kB, 4.8GT/s QPI, LGA 1336 Socket B)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor (3.4GHz, 6MB L3 Cache, 4x512KB L2 Cache, 2000 MHz Bus, Socket AM3)
Asus P7P55D Motherboard (Intel Socket H LGA1156, P55 Express, ATX, 16GB DDR3)
Intel Core i5 750 Qaud Core Processor (2.66GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 2.5 GT/s Bus, Socket H LGA1156)
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 785G/SB710 Socket AM3 ATX Motherboard
AMD 780G integrated DirectX10.1 chipset
andy rock
looks nice... #
Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 20:37 GMT
...cheap and cool. now, if they can just get linux graphics drivers on any distro other than Suse or Redhat, they can have the cash for my next machine.
unhuman
Hybrid Crossfire #
Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 20:37 GMT
If hybrid crossfire is effective in using integrated graphics for the windows desktop, etc, and only enabling the graphics card for gaming - that'd be significant power savings and justify the usage of hybrid crossfire in a way your article did not cover.
ton
forget hybrid #
Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 22:45 GMT
sideband memory on the motherboard and overclocking the igp get much more result (j&w say the managed 2975 in 3d)
also forget the be series, the athlon 4850 at 45w or phenom 9150e at 65w will give a big boost (don't forget phenom comes with ht 3.0 which doubles the speed)
Ryan
@ unhuman #
Posted Tuesday 18th March 2008 22:54 GMT
I think that's the angle nVidia are taking with their incarnation of Hybrid Crossfire, imaginatively named Hybrid SLI. Specifically the bit called HybridPower.
That and the Vista-only requirement make me think it is simply a feature of DX10.1 that both houses are trying to market as original.
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André Marques
Another use for Hybrid would be... #
Posted Wednesday 19th March 2008 10:41 GMT
A cheap multimonitor machine, right? With both inboard and dedicated graphics you can run up to 4 monitors with no multiplexers. We could use this for some workstations on our company.
david gomm
so if I'm a gamer then... #
Posted Wednesday 19th March 2008 10:41 GMT
its still the 8800GT all the way ?