Can I use a ATI Crossfire motherboard with a nvidia 7900 gt?

Question

I am having problems with my pc and think its my motherboard but i dont want to waist lots of cash of a expensive one and have found a cheap socket 939 crossfire motherboard. its only £30 and if it fixes my pc then good i dont want to use sli or crossfire. I just want to know are crossfire boards ok to use with nvidia 7900gt. If it fixes the problem ill invest in an expensive board but if it doesnt then ive only lost £30 not £££.

Thanks

Mark

Answer 1

To the second answerer, did you even come close to answering the question, and to the third, not the same thing with different trademarks, two different technologies that achieve the same basic goal.

To answer the question, it should work, its not recommended, but it should work. I really don't like ATI chipsets, they are not nearly as good as nVidia or Intel, but if it is cheap, go ahead and try it, like I said, no real reason it shouldn't work.

Answer 2

As the old saying goes, two heads are better than one. In the world of video game graphics, in most cases, two video cards are indeed faster than one. NVIDIA's Scalable Link Interface (SLI) proved to be quite popular despite the early growing pains of the GPU and chipsets. Long story short, it was up to game profiles, either built into the drivers, or put together by the user themselves to enable SLI for video games. For the most part, we don't have any major issues with NVIDIA's solution, and praised their Intel nForce 4 SLI upon release as being the best "gaming solution" available for Intel.

We've covered SLI plenty here at VL already, so I won't go much more into it specifically. During this time, ATI has been relatively quiet on the multi-graphics front. Hints and slips were common, but until actual hardware materialized, most of the hardware community took a wait and see approach for the day multi-graphics shows up from ATI.

That day is today as ATI officially unveils their Crossfire technology. What is Crossfire? Here's a snip from their press release:

When gamers add a CrossFire Edition graphics card, which includes the CrossFire compositing engine, to their Radeon Xpress powered system they are doubling their graphics rendering potential. With a variety of settings, they can use the rendering horsepower to get up to twice the performance of a single graphics card, or they can choose to put the horsepower to work increasing the image quality of their games, making them look better than ever before.

Much like NVIDIA, there are prerequisites as you can't run out and buy two X850XT cards and drop them into your existing motherboard.

Answer 3

I would check the ATI website, but if the graphics card is SLI or PCI or AGP and you have it in the required slot then it should work, however there might be issues being that the mboard is ATI and the graphics card you are trying to use is Nvidia, since ATI is a competitor for Nvidia they may have it where their motherboards will not be compatible with the Nvidia graphics card. I would suggest buying a ASUS motherboard, lifetime warranty.

Answer 4

You can get play CrossFire for free from this link: http://j.mp/Y2Rl2Q

it's a perfectly working link, no scam !
Crossfire is 100% online, with zero gameplay against artificial intelligence. It has been released around the world, and is available in dozens of countries.
It's amazing.

Answer 5

you shouldn,t have any problems, crossfire and sli are the same thing, just different trademarks!