Can you Crossfire two ati radeon 4850hd's with zalman vf1000s,?

[fatboy187]

Hello,

I recently decided to add an aftermarket cooler to my radeon 4850s, i didnt even know they existed at first but now i know i need one, temps are running high playing simple sports games, nba2k10 and mlb2k10, my question is how much distance from card to top/bottem of the cooler is there? i have a maximus extreme motherboard with two pcix's and a i thnik its called a cnr slot between them, which is where the first cooler should sit..the second cards cooler has alot of space below, but its the space inbetween that concerns me,please help

 

[purple stain]

What is the exact model of your mobo?

Usually adding a aftermarket cooler to a dual slot card will add another slot so it turns it into a 3 slot card.But I think the Zalman is small so it won't add another slot.It should be the same distance between the cards as it is now.

 

[purple stain]

Yah it looks like it's the same size as the reference cooler.In fact it looks smaller.