Like much of the world I am awaiting the Catalyst 9.1 drivers release. Not so much for the Crossfire support and the bug-fixes that come with that but the anticipated optimizations for quad core computers.
I myself have a Q6600 clocked at 3.01ghz, 4gigs of Mushkin 1066mhz ram, and an ATI HD4870 512mb card. So from those specs you can see why I am interested to see some optimizations in the new drivers that could help push an already powerful card to it’s absolute limits. With a modest overclock on the video card at 810/915 it pushes things pretty well now, but with the addictional performance gained from the optimizations it will really become a catalyst for things to come.
So I, like the rest of the ATI fanboy world, wait on bated breath for the imminent release of some new drivers that can add to the performance of an already good computer and push it into the even better category.
Hopefully ATI can provide and we will see some good things to come from ATI.
The drivers are finally released as of 1/29/2009 and they seem to be most of everything that was promised. The multi-core support really speeds things up even if the driver release was a little longer than we all would have liked. You can download the new driver over at the AMD/ATI driver page, Driver Downloads. With all the enhancements it is still hard to think that nVidia with the physX technology might be able to stomp on them in newer cards, nut for now ATI and the HD4870 aer cooking along nicely with fast, well priced video cards.
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