enthusiast.hardocp.com — Radeon HD 2900 XT CrossFire is most certainly not a good gaming solution. It just does not deliver the kind of performance advantages ATI needs to compete with what NVIDIA already has in the marketplace. - "To summarize the value of two HD 2900 XT cards in CrossFire, it just isn?t worth it."
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daphatgrantJul 9, 2007
"That website doesn't know how to evaluate hardware."
an0nym0usJul 10, 2007
you do know that 2 x 2900xt is still waaay much cheaper than 2 x 8800GTS OC SLI?
gamer_013Jul 10, 2007
The HD2900XT in crossfire does beat one 8800 Ultra - <a class="user" href="http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1131/1/page_1_introduction/index.html">http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1131/1/page_1_introduction/index.html</a>As more driver updates come out the 2900 will perform better. But the 2900 is not a waste of money
captcanukJul 10, 2007
How come they reviewed a generic 2900XT versus and Overclocked 8800 GTS OC2 ($50 more)? When you pump the clocks on cards, there really is no comparison when the numbers are already close when its not clocked up. The funny thing is, they sorta mention overclocking but never share any details on how the 2900XT does overclocked.I used to heavily respect [H] for their hardware reviews but now I'm second guessing what their methodology is - it just seems a bit odd.
frgmstrJul 11, 2007Submitter
We used an OCed NVIDIA card because they are overclocked out of the box and readily available in North America and matched closer in price to the 2900, yet the NV card is still cheaper. As for OCing, we covered it in our evaluation, <a class="user" href="http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTM1OSw4LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==">http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTM1OSw4LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==</a>
ivybatJul 12, 2007
All PCI-ex cards currently only use x8 anyway. You don't need the full x16 yet