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ATi CrossFire endorsed by Intel

by Steve Kerrison on 18 July 2006, 09:25

Tags: ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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It seems that for the first time ever, a 3rd party technology, that's not actually part of an Intel mainboard, has been referred to by Intel on one of its own product pages...

The technology in question is ATI's CrossFire, which can be run on certain motherboards without an ATI chipset, for example Intel's D975XBX. This board features, as the name suggests, the i975X chipset. Head on over to the specs page for the board and Intel have dropped in a mention for CrossFire.


ATI CrossFire technology enables two ATI graphics cards to work together for ultimate 3D gaming performance and visual quality.

Of course, this isn't the first ever reference to ATI in a motherboard product page, ATI's Xpress 200 chipset was used on the D101GGC, for example. However, seeing as CrossFire is a technology that's part of discrete graphics cards, we think we can still pass this as a 'first ever'.

It remains to be seen how long it will be before a mention in the shade of green appears on an Intel motherboard page, but perhaps this might speed things along.