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captain204mike

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i am gettting a new mobo( hopefully tomorrow)
it is a DFI Lanparty UT CFX3200-DR Socket 939 ATI CrossFire Radeon Xpress 3200
i have right now a X1950XTX 512mb DDR4 Radeon
question is what card do i need to be able to run to graphics and how to do it
ive never seen this technology and do not know anything about it
does the next card i get have to be a crossfire edition of the same card?
do i have to use those jumper connectors on the card, and how to tell mobo to run both
i have no idea
plus will ATI only run 2 graphics cards in Crossfire boards, or will ATI work in the SLI mobo too,
hope i didnt confuse anyone, i think i did myself
 
Follow this link. You'll need one of these to do CF. That DFI board will run CF, but you'll need a master card to do it. The master card will come with a dongle that you use to enable Crossfire. Keep in mind, in CF mode, only 1 monitor is usable. Turning on CF mode is an option in the CCC. CF only works in a board like DFI you're getting, or an Intel chipset. SLi boards will run a single card, but not CF.
 
I hate that only one monitor is useable with it enabled :mad: ATI needs to get there S*$% together.
 
infin@ said:
I hate that only one monitor is useable with it enabled :mad: ATI needs to get there S*$% together.
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The same goes for SLI. Nvidia needs to get there shit together :rolleyes:
 
The X1950 series doesn't need the dongle and has a bending CF connecter in the same position as a it's SLI conterpart.

Can you really not run Dual Displays with SLI? That really makes me miffed!!
 
Hawk said:
The X1950 series doesn't need the dongle and has a bending CF connecter in the same position as a it's SLI conterpart.

Can you really not run Dual Displays with SLI? That really makes me miffed!!
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Actually only the X1950 Pro is the first ATI card without the dongle. The X1950XTX still uses the dongle. Only way you can run SLI enabled and dual displays is thru Linux. In a Windows environment, when SLI and Crossfire is enabled you can only have one monitor in use. I dont think there is any way around this actually in a Windows environment, and thats why it hasnt been implemented yet.

But now it really isnt a big deal. Before when you enabled and disabled SLI you had to restart. They fixed that and now you can enable and disable SLI whenever you want and not have to do a restart. As with ATI, I always think Crossfire was able to be enabled and disabled without having to restart.

I found it interesting when Crossfire first came out. It came out with all the cons Nvidia's SLI had, and had didnt have any of the pro's SLI had. Right now, there both really good. Anyone who claims Crossfire is still shit, is wrong, they either using one of the first boards or isnt doing it right.
 
Ok, thanks for clearing that up. Also, I just thought that since I knew the Pro had the new connecter that the better card in the same series would have it too. Shows I shouldn't assume :)
 
I have dual Sapphire x1950pros in Crossfire right now, only a few weeks old. The x1950pro is the first ATI card to make use of the internal bridge connections (there's two), kind of like the SLi bridge from Nv. The 1950pro is also the first 80nm part from ATi, and is also the first to encorporate the Crossfire compositing bridge on the card. When you buy two 1950pros. you get 1 bridge connector per card, and each card has it's own compositing engine. No more dongles! However, at stock speeds, the x1950pro is the second slowest of the x1950 series. The XT, and of course, the XTX are both quicker (XTX having more pipes, and the DDR4 at 1000MHz..sheesh). The GT is about on par, or runs a bit slower than the pro.

There is an interesting tidbit of information in all of this though, just for you! The new catalyst 6.11 support software CF mode for all x1950 series cards that run in a master/slave configuration. That means in your case, if you just abhore the dongle, you can ditch it, and still run CF. The x1950pro can't do this, but doesn't need the use of a dongle, so on my model, it would be pointless anyways.

Hope all of this helped!
 
I've had my crossfire set up for awhile now and I love it. I'm even using the "crap" X850 setup that everyone says sucks.

Games look fantastic and run smooth with high fps. I run all my games w/ AFR (alternate frame rendering) enabled, AF @ 16x and AA @ 14x on a 19" widescreen lcd with a native resolution of 1440x900.

If my old school tech looks this good I can only imagine how much better the x1800 and x1900 crossfire setups look and run.

Later!!!

SB
 
I have recently bought another x1900xt crossfire and the whole system runs without any problems. The use of Crossfire depends on the games you intend to play. I do like Gothic3, but with this game crossfire is completely useless. On the other hand, I won`t miss crossfire when playing GTR2 with full graphic settings at 1920x1200
 
Hawk said:
The X1950 series doesn't need the dongle and has a bending CF connecter in the same position as a it's SLI conterpart.

Can you really not run Dual Displays with SLI? That really makes me miffed!!
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You can run SLI with dual displays provided you're using Quadros :D

Waiting for my X1950 Crossfire edition, got my X1950XTX today but for some reason they shipped out seperately. They'll be replacing my FX 4500s, got a love a workstation that runs both SLI and Crossfire...
 
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