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Thanks, tecmo34, It's pretty clear that ATI does not consider this chipset capable of "bridgeless" CrossFire.

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Thanks, Shadow187. Sorry it took me so long to figure out what you were trying to say. It's pretty clear that ATI doesn't consider the 4850 chipset capable of "software" or "bridgeless" CrossFire.

Still hoping the community can answer this for me.... So, ASRock technical support tells me that my 870 Extreme3 motherboard does not support "bridgeless" CrossFire. I wrote both ATI and Powercolor technical support and requested a list of recommended or tested motherboards that do support...

Still hoping the community can answer this for me.... So, ASRock technical support tells me that my 870 Extreme3 motherboard does not support "bridgeless" CrossFire. I wrote both ATI and Powercolor technical support and requested a list of recommended or tested motherboards that do support...

Thank you rolli59, I built this system from scratch, therefore there were never any previous ATI drivers to uninstall. Both cards were in when I booted the machine up for the first time and when I first installed the ATI drivers and CCC. Later, when I tried installing a different version of...

tecmo34, I'm no expert, but I don't think modern day Crossfire uses this type of master/slave arrangement. Note that the article you reference was written in 2005. If you find out any different, please let me know.

Thank you rolli59, I have verified that I am running the most current BIOS (version P1.60). I have scrutized every field, but I didn't find a single setting that was directly related to CrossFire. I also searched the manual and the word "CrossFire" does not appear in the chapter on BIOS...

Thank you again, Shadow187, I could not find anything from ATI stating that my cards chipsets don't support software crossfire. That would make Powercolor's claims dubious at best, and fraudelent at worst. Do you remember where you found that information? Can you send me a link? I would...

Thank you tecmo34 and Cpujunkie, I am running the lastest ATI Catalyst drivers and Catalyst Control Center. I cannot enable Crossfire in CCC because the configuration options are greyed out. In the "Graphics Adapter List" only one card shows up. On the diagnostics tab the following message...

Thank you rolli59. Do I have to do something to enable it? I've already checked the BIOS and there are no settings there even distantly related to crossfire. I have the most recent BIOS and drivers and CCC. The cards aren't crossfiring by themselves, so there must be some configuring required.

I built myself what I thought would be a nice little gaming system over the break. Only problem is my pair of video cards does not Crossfire. I called Powercolor and they told me that my cards don't do hardware Crossfire (with the bridge cables) only software crossfire with compatible...

Shadow187, Thank you again, but Powercolor has already told me that my cards support software crossfire only. There is no place to plug interconnect cables. Follow the link below for a good image of the card, where you can clearly see the lack of connectors...

Shadow187, Thank you very much for the quick response. I know that my motherboard supports Crossfire at 8x/8x, what I need to know is two things. 1) Does my motherboard support SOFTWARE Crossfire and, 2) If so, how do I enable it on the motherboard? Here's a little more data to...

I built myself what I thought would be a nice system over the break. Only problem is my pair of video cards does not Crossfire. I called Powercolor and they told me that my cards don't do hardware Crossfire (with the bridge cables) only software crossfire using the motherboards PCI bus. How...