Do all of the crossfire cards HAVE to work in a crossfire mode on a crossfire motherboard? Suppose i want to have 2 graphic cards on a PCI-E 8x without crossfire mode.
2006-06-26 02:28:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Yes, it works perfectlly well, just like it's been possible to use 2 or more graphic cards in one PC for years now (1 AGP + 1 or more PCI, for example). The drivers and Windows/Linux will handle that without any problem.
The real difficulty about SLI/Crossfire was in fact just to have two GC work together on the same screen, and since it's not what you want, then it's fine.
Very convenient for Multi-Monitoring on 4 Monitors. If it's just for Two monitors and you don't need full 3D acceleration on both, i would rather go for just one powerful card, though.
Hope this helps.
2006-07-06 02:01:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you do that you will only have one graphics card being used. unless you were to hook up multiple monitors.(like 4) so no, they don't have to work in crossfire mode but its a waste of a graphics card if you don't. (by the way: I'm not sure about the multiple monitors thing, that's just speculation and theories, although you can hook 2 monitors normally up to the majority of newer ATI cards, so having 2 cards should mean that you have up to 4 monitors available.
(btw: crossfire is not crap, and the crossfire edition cards come with adapters in the box. crossfire actually on the high end models is more powerful than SLI)
2006-06-26 02:36:26 · answer #2 · answered by giblets 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The r520 cores are going to support AMR mode on non ATI chipsets as well with no bridge. This means for all those with DFI nf4-Ultras they should be able to run AMR mode without having to modify their boards like nvidia SLI requires.
2006-06-26 12:49:09 · answer #3 · answered by Taffy Comp Geek 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check to see if your computer is sli compatible and do it that way.... which it sounds like it will be but you need 2 sli compatible graphics cards... cross fire is crap even if you have the cards and the mother board you still need an adapter.. both cards have to be cross fire compatible but only if you want to have cross fire and of the same type sli is the way for you to go
2006-06-26 02:33:18 · answer #4 · answered by ptdemon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes if 1 male and 1 female otherwise no
2006-06-27 06:28:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes if one is male and the other female
2006-06-26 02:39:01 · answer #6 · answered by joker e 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋