CROSSFIRE

[vawayne]

1 3870x2 + 1 3870 useing a
Crossfire Abit AW9D MB at 8 x 8 what do you think the
peformace would be ?

Also E6600 @ 3.0

 

[Zinn]

Twelve

 

[Deton]

1 3870x2 + 1 3870 useing a
Crossfire Abit AW9D MB at 8 x 8 what do you think the
peformace would be ?

Also E6600 @ 3.0

there're few threads down for the Xfire setup like the way you wanted.
READ!

 

[vawayne]

Can't find any .........give me a link

 

[Zinn]

i don't normally do this, but this is a special case!

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3232

 

[vawayne]

@ Zinn
Thanks for your time and effort.......
Well This answers my Question you can only run 3 GPUs
on a crossfireX board. Only 1 3870x2 crossfireboard......

 

[jebo_4jc]

Twelve

I LOL

 

[Zinn]

@ Zinn
Thanks for your time and effort.......
Well This answers my Question you can only run 3 GPUs
on a crossfireX board. Only 1 3870x2 crossfireboard......

you can use four GPUs, it just doesn't scale as well.

You could have 2 3870x2s, or 1 3870x2s and 2 regular 3870s.

 

[jebo_4jc]

Judging by the initial results, seems like 3 GPUs is the sweet spot in terms of scaling.