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Computex 2005: Crossfire still months away?

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 1 June 2005, 00:00

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Crossfire still months away?

Crossfire still months away?




While most of the graphics talk at Computex centres on ATI's Crossfire, it could be months before the consumer can buy it. Talking to an ATI board partner revealed that while it's on show at Computex, it's on show using engineering sample silicon and a driver that's not quite ready, and they fully expect it'll be sometime in July before they have final product to push out and a driver to rely on. That pushes retail availability possibly into August. So while they've announced it and the usual suspects wrote it up, it'll probably be a month before those usual suspects have a review platform and proper sampling.

For a company like ATI, it'd be mad to have a quiet Computex, so we can see the rationale behind a media push for Crossfire this early, just be prepared to have a little longer than you'd like to save those pennies to buy the hardware.



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It probably does not have to hurry out the door before r520 anyhow because people will wait to see how the r520 and G70 do before plumping one way or another on which motherboard they will be buying in relation to what card and what permuations they can do.

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Andy