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  • Radeon 8500 Maxx - Dual GPU

    here's some info about ATI's upcoming
    Radeon Maxx.
    TweakTown
    A dual GPU card with dual monitor support, apparently they have put in work in improving their 2D quality.
    Now if they can come through with dirvers, Look out Matrox.
    btw going by what's said on that forum the pic is fake, but ATI already have drivers for this card in their unified drivers.
    Last edited by IllogickMind; 9 July 2002, 17:24.

  • #2
    The question is how stable their MAXX resolution will be. The old Rage Fury MAXX had some problems, also it should be sure that this card won't be a real gaming card, as Rage3d stated, it targets the professional market.
    And I am not sure about the price, but two chips and at least 128MB RAM won't be that cheap......
    I would even say that this card will be bashed like the P. when the first benchmarks will be out, many people think 2xR200=double Radeon 8500 performance, but I doubt that it will do around 450fps in Quake III or over 16.000 points in 3dMark 2001, otherwise I might be again completely wrong
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    MSI 745 Ultra :: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ :: 1024 MB PC-266 DDR-RAM :: HIS Radeon 9700 (Catalyst 3.1) :: Creative Soundblaster Live! 1024 :: Pioneer DVD-106S :: Western Digital WD800BB :: IBM IC35L040AVVN07

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    • #3
      i dont know but these features seem geared towards gamers ;

      Truformâ„¢
      Smartshaderâ„¢
      AFRâ„¢
      DirectX 8.1® support
      OpenGL® 1.3
      Smoothvisionâ„¢ Anti-aliasing
      Hyper Zâ„¢ III
      Charisma Engineâ„¢ II
      Pixel Tapestryâ„¢ II
      Video Immersionâ„¢ II
      High Performance Memory Support
      Dual Display Support
      Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
      Triple Cache Architecture
      SuperScalar Rendering
      Single-Pass Multi-texturing
      True Color Rendering
      Triangle Setup Engine
      Texture Cache
      Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
      Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
      Full-Screen Anti-aliasing
      Texture Compositing
      Texture Decompression
      Specular Highlights
      Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
      Mip-Mapping
      Z-Buffering and Double-buffering
      Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping
      Spherical, Dual Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
      Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows,
      spotlights, LOD biasing and texture morphing
      Dual 400Mhz RAMDACS

      I don't know what the market for this card will be but didn't ATI just release a professional type OpenGL card?

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      • #4
        Its a fake....
        Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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        • #5
          The last MAXX card from them got recalled due to them NEVER PRODUCING DRIVERS for it. Not a single set. And you want another one why?

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          • #6
            Hehe that pic of that Dual GPU ATI G-card was a pretty decent photochop indeed but it has been said to be entirely a hoax.
            Hardcore PC gamer with a sweet tooth for EXTREME eye candy!

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            • #7
              Looks like half a 8500 and half a 7500.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Gurm
                The last MAXX card from them got recalled due to them NEVER PRODUCING DRIVERS for it. Not a single set. And you want another one why?

                - Gurm
                I never said i wanted it, i was just passing on what i read. If u had bothered to read my post u would see that they have already made preparations in their drivers sets.

                Those pics are definitely fake but the card itself is not.

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                • #9

                  Of course it is. Why would someone take the time to make up a fake pic for a fake card? It only makes sense that they would make up a fake pic for a real card.
                  Core2 Duo E7500 2.93, Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, 4gig 1066 DDR2, 1gig Asus ENGTS250, SB X-Fi Gamer ,WD Caviar Black 1tb, Plextor PX-880SA, Dual Samsung 2494s

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Kruzin
                    ... Why would someone take the time to make up a fake pic for a fake card? ...
                    You mean like that one of a couple years ago that included a graphics chip from everyone under the Sun? ... (waiting for the pic to get posted ) ...
                    <TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by xortam
                      You mean like that one of a couple years ago that included a graphics chip from everyone under the Sun? ... (waiting for the pic to get posted ) ...
                      I bet you mean this one, right?


                      I am wondering how good it would perform today
                      Specs:
                      MSI 745 Ultra :: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ :: 1024 MB PC-266 DDR-RAM :: HIS Radeon 9700 (Catalyst 3.1) :: Creative Soundblaster Live! 1024 :: Pioneer DVD-106S :: Western Digital WD800BB :: IBM IC35L040AVVN07

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                      • #12
                        what do you mean? it gets 425 bungholiomarks, NOTHING can beat that, they even used it for quake XIII, AND it got a "2000" in its name, I tell you it is better than sliced bread.
                        Last edited by TdB; 10 July 2002, 08:00.
                        This sig is a shameless atempt to make my post look bigger.

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                        • #13
                          Jon Phillips is a great man....
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                          • #14
                            <font size="+1">OH GOODY!!! AFR!</font>

                            <b>SHITE.</b>
                            Meet Jasmine.
                            flickr.com/photos/pace3000

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                            • #15
                              That's a cool ad!
                              Titanium is the new bling!
                              (you heard from me first!)

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