ATI Radeon X850 XT CrossFire Review

It has been almost a four full months since ATI launched their ATI CrossFire technology. We wrote a preview of this technology way back on May 30 of 2005. This initial technology preview was very clearly a paper launch. Since that time, gamers and reviewers have been waiting with baited breath for a chance to get to use a CrossFire setup. That time has finally come nearly four months after we first heard about it.

To recap what CrossFire is all about, the idea is quite simple; take two video cards and connect them together in such a way that they can provide a performance boost for you in games. With this extra performance, you have the ability to raise the resolution, enable anti-aliasing (AA) and anisotropic filtering (AF), and turn on the highest level of in-game quality settings, or at least get closer to those goals. NVIDIA’s technology aims to do the same thing, but they call their technology SLI. Now it is ATI’s turn to show us what their dual video card solution can do.

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