- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
And I wasn't talking about Quad SLI either. You have a serious problem with not reading through posts and links. I just posted the X-Bit review that showed in its graphs two 7900GTX's losing to two X1900XTX's in nearly every game. Yes, the review focuses on Quad-SLI, but benches for normal SLI and Crossfire are in it too.
By: Sexy Legs Davis
...Finally, Gamespot is not using the most recent Forceware and Catalyst. While the others use FW 87.24 and Catalyst 6.4, Gamespot uses FW 84.17 and Catalyst 6.2. Gamespot's drivers are older.
Catalyst 6.2 offered early support for Crossfire. However, only until Catalyst 6.3 did ATi intoduce optimizations for the X1800 and X1900 series of cards. These allow better performance and eleminate previous bottlenecks. nVidia introduced optimizations for the 7900 series with ForceWare 84.17.
Thus, Gamespot's benchmarks are skewed. Not only did they not use the most recent drivers, but their nVidia drivers are optimized for the 7900 series and their Catalyst driver are not optimized for the X1900 series. Essentially, the review is not credible. To add insult to injury, 84.17 does not allow the 7900GTX to overclock properly. Hence why, in all of the reviews I've read, only this Gamespot review uses it. They are the only review site to use 84.17 in testing the 7900GTX. All other reviews I've seen use either the reviewer 84.11 drivers or the standard 87.24 drivers. Can anyone say credibility and reliability?
Of course, you'd have supposedly already read that since you said I was flaming you and making myself look 'dumber'.
[Edited on 5/2/2006]