Read more.Shows plans for COMPUTEX 2010.
Read more.Shows plans for COMPUTEX 2010.
Sometimes, just sometimes, less is more.
I keep telling myself that every i time pull my trousers down. This funnily enough is what will happen if you shell out £1000+ on gfx card.
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lol, two things to drag out of the nonsensical PR speak, a fan that is rated at say 100cfm, will be rated as such in the open with nothing on either side, I doubt it could push 1/3 of that when right up against the heatsink behind it(very very shallow under the fan) so the pressure will be immensely higher than a "open air" test and it will be far louder aswell.
Likewise the Lucid chip, so far the MSI managed to gain basically zero performance from a 2nd card, the couple games it manages a few percent increase over one card, the minimums divebomb to be significantly worse. Its got ZERO chance right now of offering higher performance than xfire or sli can offer, and for a cost thats, insane, its quite literally a joke.
You wonder how much could be saved, and how much cheaper better products would be, if they stopped wasting money on these products.
While its a difficult scale to balance, investing on new techs that DO increase performance while giving a chance to others, cutting off spending on utterly stupid things has to be done. When MSI showed numbers that are frankly embarassing, massively increased cost, for significantly worse performance and most often a net decrease in performance when adding a second card, when standard sli/xfire add's a good 50% in the majority of games, and up to 90% in others, with most somewhere in the middle, Lucid should clearly have been dropped quite some time ago.
Actually, drunkenmaster, the Lucid on the Crosshair IV Extreme has been developed as a co-project between ASUS and Lucid...and it doesn't suffer from the same problems as the other board you mentioned.
The driver ASUS are using is much more refined and the performance with the Lucid chip is better than with SLI or Crossfire in 95% of scenarios![]()
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