5800 series and Intel core together?
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Father Xmas,
Posted on: 2009-10-16 19:30 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
It anything it's foolish thinking that they won't play well together. Yes ATI is part of AMD. However it was Intel's motherboard chipsets that were the 2nd source of Crossfire support ever since Intel's 955X chipset in 2005.
Check the test platforms in the reviews of the ATI 58xx video cards. I would bet most are using overclocked i7-920 or i7-975 as the CPU (because the standard way to test video cards is to use the fastest CPU you can get your hands on so the CPU isn't the bottleneck).
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Okay... been reading through some of those. And you're absolutely correct about that setup. I had seen in a couple places stuff about certain GPGPU features were expected to work "better" with an AMD card--I think the OpenCL stuff. But it may have been the blind leading the blind there. As always, thanks for the good word Father Xmas.
For the tech heads around here: Curious about mixing and matching an i7 core and the new dx11 5800 cards. Any opinions or experiences regarding this move? Can an AMD GPU play nice with an intel core? Or is this foolish thinking.
I had been planning to build a new machine august/september but a few larger more important bills got in the way...and now that it's a few months later I'm starting fresh looking at possible builds for November. Still looking at roughly a $2k budget.