crossfire on sli mobo?

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jetpig

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i saw a thread about sli on a crossfire mobo... said it was impossible. but what about crossfire on an SLI mobo (ga-k8nxp-sli to be exact) I'm looking to get a couple x1950pros to hold me over to DX10 (i've got a 24 inch monitor so i need the power D=)

on the other hand... would a single x1950 be able to drive modern games at 1920x1200?
 
I have a 24" monitor also, and my card chokes a little bit at 1920x1200 (X1900XT 512mb version).
 
bah. i thought that crossfire just needed two pci-e x16 slots... i was hopeful! well off to the video card forums to ask for some assistance in a single card.
 
it's all down to the gfx driver support - there is no reason why you can't run Crossfire &/or SLI on any mobo with the necessary x16 slots other than company marketing/politics.
 
sli crossfire neither require a special chipsets to run pretty much all is needed is two 8x PCIe slots
 
the NEW ati crossfire version will work in any system with 2 pci-e slots that have 8x or more last i checked

and by new i mean the ones that have the bridges that look like nvidia's sli setup..
 
sweet. so i could get an SLi mobo and not be pigeon holed into nVidia video cards.

on the other hand i would be pigeon holed into an nvidia mobo...... now which hole do i want to be pigeoned into.....
 
jetpig said:
sweet. so i could get an SLi mobo and not be pigeon holed into nVidia video cards.

on the other hand i would be pigeon holed into an nvidia mobo...... now which hole do i want to be pigeoned into.....
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lmfao what you said makes no fucking sense you grossly misused the definition of pigeonholed. pigeonholed means to put something away and ignore it. best common example would be politicians pigeonholing a bill
 
I work at BB as a Geek Squad Agent and I know that you cant do that, however though...
Hacked drivers?
 
pcfan10110 said:
I work at BB as a Geek Squad Agent and I know that you cant do that, however though...
Hacked drivers?
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No offense pcfan10110, but most of the people at BB don't know jack about computers. You may know more than the average "Geek Squad" agent. Anyhow you should be able to run SLI/Crossfire on any board that has 2 PCI-E slots (at 8x). There are hacked drivers out there that allow you to do this. And I do believe ATI is more forgiving than nVidia. I've heard more success stories with Crossfire working on nForce chipsets and Intel chipsets. SLI on the other hand...
 
jchen012 said:
No offense pcfan10110, but most of the people at BB don't know jack about computers. You may know more than the average "Geek Squad" agent. Anyhow you should be able to run SLI/Crossfire on any board that has 2 PCI-E slots (at 8x). There are hacked drivers out there that allow you to do this. And I do believe ATI is more forgiving than nVidia. I've heard more success stories with Crossfire working on nForce chipsets and Intel chipsets. SLI on the other hand...
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Crossfire DOES run on Intel chipsets. It's right on the box for most of the 975X boards.
 
khuyakuya said:
lmfao what you said makes no fucking sense you grossly misused the definition of pigeonholed. pigeonholed means to put something away and ignore it. best common example would be politicians pigeonholing a bill
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You, sir, are incorrect.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pigeonhole

"To pigeonhole: to categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc."

Hence jetpig's example makes perfect "fucking" sense.
 
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