Did you ever try to setup a stable 880 when they first came out? The forceware was just as bad as catalyst 7.7 for the HD2x00 series. Early drivers are never capable of releasing the cards potential, give it a months for Catalust 7.11 and we'll have something far better to work with.

The idea of a crossfire set card could go both ways. 2 GPU's with a single memory buss will be staggeringly powerful if you can add a second card in 'normal' crossfire mode.

Besides, ATi do all the best work. They make the technology which is then used in the industry. Imagine if ATi had not released PCI-E as a standard, but instead kept the x16 speed bus for themselves leaving nVidia to use x8 AGP? Granted, the courts would ignore Microsoft for a while and start a monopoly case against ATi, but nVidia would be left stranded in the performance scene. 

Regardless of what we finally see from this chip, i'd rather see GDDR4 memory and a sensible warning on the box about PSU requirement...

"imagine if ATi had not released PCI-E as a standard, but instead kept the x16 speed bus for themselves leaving nVidia to use x8 AGP?"

Intel was the primary benefactor behind PCI express, not ATI.

Here I was hoping they would have went MCM for R680. Or at least Dual socket with both sharing the Ring Memory bus. But just a crossfire linked dual card... Sigh. Not too impressed. Come on ATI/AMD show some of that innovative stuff Athlons were made of!

You lost me somehwere between RV670s, 3870 X2, FireStream 9170 X2 and G92_300, 8850GX2, 8950GX2, 7900GX2, 7950GX2, BR04, HD 3850, 3870, 8800GT, G92-based GTS, HD 3870 X2, 8xx0GX2.


It seems to me ATI's recent track record has been cards that sound fantastic on paper but underperform when actually delivered (and delivered late as well)! Hopefully ATI won't be doing that again with this card.

I probably won't be waiting anyway, as I want to play GoW and Crysis now and the 8800GT looks like the best option (if I can find one in stock)!

It's got to be a Crossfire driver... otherwise, why would AMD have put so much time and effort into it?

Hey, AMD/ATI drivers really need to be looked at because there are always alot of bugs. Why don't they look at the OMEGA Driver Guy and HIRE HIM!!! Hello!! We have these buggy drivers and this guy spends his day fixing them and adding feature and functionalities. Like hire the goddamn guy. If AMD/ATI wants to take over the Graphics Card Industry we need some good drivers. Maybe they need to look at releasing a driver every 3-6 months insuring that its stable and that there are no bugs before being released.