Good idea, but I'd still just get the XT's and see where I can take those.

Maximum PC had an article on the ATI Crossfire tech -- it looks very
promising and a lot more compatible than nVidia's implementation.

"jkb" <nospam> wrote in message
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>> However, ATI's Crossfire does look very promising with three different
> modes
>> of support, 2 of which are completely DX9 compatible. So it looks like
> I'll
>> be doing ATI Crossfire in my near future (as soon as the cards are out
>> and
>> motherboard is available). It'll be interesting to see if Crossfire does
>> work with FS9 -- if it doesn't then one can be assured the FS9 dev team
> are
>> using more of those "undocumented" features in DX9 or the OS to make
>> their
>> products work faster/better than anyone elses ;)
>
> I believe Sapphire has Crossfire mobo's. What do you think about my idea
> of
> Crossfiring 2 512MB X800's and overclocking the VRAM to the XT's speed?
>
>