[SOLVED] 2 GPU's on one system

[PanosK1981]

Hello world how are you i am having an issue here i am wearing asus sabertooth fx 990 R2.0 mothernboard which is supports crossfire system and a gpu Ati amd radeon R9 290 i have an extra pci slot on my motherboard for a second gpu i was wondering which one is compatible to my system: PLS note that the r9290 gpu does not allow a bridge connection there is no input to adapt a bridge connection with the second gpu which gpu have to buy in order to be compatible with my system? thx ppl for revieing this

 

[DSzymborski]

What is the purpose of wanting a second GPU? If the intention is Crossfire for gaming, multi-GPU solutions are dead in 2021; they've been awful for a very long time and now drivers and software are completely abandoning any kind of support. This is basically something that was briefly interesting around 2008 or so and then slowly dying since.

And -- again, assuming the purpose is gaming since you're talking about a bridge, which isn't a mining thing -- even in an imaginary world in which you would want to have R9 290s in Crossfire and they actually scaled perfectly instead of barely, any CPU compatible with an AM3+ motherboard would severely bottleneck it, and then be equally pointless.

Incidentally, the R9 200 series GPUs didn't need a Crossfire bridge in any case as they communicate directly through the PCI-Express slots. Not that there's any reason to want to do so.

 

[dorsai]

Unless you're mining Etherium there's no reason to run multiple GPUs today...a fast single GPU is always a better choice for gaming.

 

[logainofhades]

That would be a total waste of time/money. Dual GPU gaming is dead, and your CPU wouldn't be fast enough, even if it did work well. Being on an FX rig, you are already pretty much at the limit your cpu can properly feed.