Crossfire

[yarricc]

Ok I am in the process of building a new system, and I need to know which cards I can run in crossfire mode without having to buy one of those god awful expencive mastercards. I have heard that you can run 2 x1600xt in crossfire mode is this true?????? Do they make an x1600xt master card??? I am on a limited budget but I want to be able to do some light gaming and perform well.

They will be going into a Asus P5WD2-E (975x) motherboards with a P4 930 presler dual core CPU, 2gig of memory and the OS will be installed on a pair of Raptor 36.4gig hd's in raid 0. I have been piecing it together since I got my tax returns.[/b]

 

[angry_ducky]

If I'm not mistaken, you don't need a master card to run X1800GTO's in Crossfire. Those GTO's can be overclocked to XL speeds, and unlocked to 16 pipes.

 

[GherkinPekul]

You are right, x1600 and x1300 don't need master cards.
I am designing my new machine, and was thinking of doing the same thing.
I have since decided to skip crossfire for now, and get 1 x1800xt for about the same price as 2 x1600s. Performance should be better with a better card than 2 mediocre ones. I figure I can always wait until the master cards get cheaper and then go crossfire.

 

[S7A88Y]

REALY!? *grin streaches around face three times* I knew about the OC and unlocking, but can you just pop in another GTO do some setup then have crossfire *looks at crossfire board* so thats why I boutght you!

 

[baddog1]

Run crossfire without the master? I'm pretty sure you can't. You need that weird cable and one end will only plug into a proprietary jack on the master. I could be wrong (after all, I was wrong once before), but I don't think so.

 

[RichPLS]

No CF cards for the X1600's, two regular X1600's will run CF tho.

 

[toe49]

well instead of spending $500+ on two 1800xt cards, you CAN run 2 x1800gto's in crossfire, and right now on newegg you can get a HIS Hightech x1800gto for $198 (!) after a mail-in rebate. here's the link:


HIS Hightech X1800GTO