ATI RD580 - ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe

ATI has actually renamed Radeon Xpress 200 to CrossFire Xpress 1600, AFAIK.

 

Oh FFS

Just call it 580 and be done with it.

What the hell is Xpress anyway?? You know it's a bad naming convention when ONLY the parent company uses it when referring to products.

 

i guess i will have to keep an eye out. because i am a big ati fan. so no nvidia **** will do for me lol (sorry but thats the way i am)

 

The internal connection between the two PCI-Express x16 lanes is called 'Xpress Route'

 

That doesnt change the fact its a crappy name

 

It implies fast.

 

The Xpress 200 gave 20 PCIe lanes, right? Therefore, they should call this one (that has 40 lanes, if I remember correctly) Xpress 400, not 3200.

 

So both the A8R32 and A8N32 have 4pin 12v connectors. How do i get my Enermax Liberty to work with either of them. I think it has the 8pin 12v

529th

 

It'll probably be splittable you should be able to take half of it off. If that's not the case, then you could probably connect it with the extra 4 pins overhanging the connector.

 

But it means nothing. The fact that "RD580" means more to people than "Xpress 3200" (of course, it's GOT to be with an X) is a failing on the part of ATI. I mean, I know a fair bit but until you told me about "Xpress Routes" even I was non the wiser, so wtf is joe public gonna know!?

 

man that 8pin connector really looked like it was one piece, whew!

Liberty Enermax 620 has seperate 12v CPU/MB rails (2x4pin)

 

They're working on the whole 32 lanes of graphics marketing scheme.

 

i have a question for the person who tested this:

if you`ve still got it can you try something for me?

there is a rumour on teh internet that this board can use crossfire without the need for a master card - when using x1000 series cards.


so could it be tested with 2 X1800XL`s or XT`s - normal vanilla cards and not a master one?


if it does work with 2 X1800XL`s then that combo will be very good value for money AND very fast

 

That is true, but only for the x1300 and x1600, and it's not just true for this board, it's simply the way ATI designed them. The higher level cards must have a master card, along with a regular card.

 

That won't work because you need a master card with X1800 and above at the moment. You can use X1600 and X1300 without the need for a master card, but then it's a bit of a waste spending so much on a motherboard when you're spending less than the price of the motherboard on each graphics card. That's why we didn't test connector-less CrossFire in this board.

 

could you give it a try? try 2 different x1800`s in crossfire but not the master card? itt was supposed to be a feature of the board you see - that all x1000 series cards can work without a master

 

Trust me, it doesn't work... That's based on what I've been told by ATI.

 

The X1600 and below are not powerful enough to saturate the x16/x8 buses so dont need the dongle, and hence, master card. But everything above wouldnt have enough manwidth I assume.

 

well , i`ve seen 2 asus X1900XT cards , both are the non crossfire version (white fan not the black fan on the crossfire version) running in crossfire mode. review on another website.


bigz - please try it -i think that it WILL work , and ati hust don`t want people knowing it will work and will buy the *expensive* master cards.

 

we all wanna know, do as harle says!

ATI really need to clarify this!

P.s. Looks promising!