Gap in between my Toxic 6950's?

[apav]

Hi guys! I ordered 2 of these bad boys for my crossfire configuration:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102951

My only question is will there be some sort of gap between the cards on my board?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131729

I hope they won't be right ontop of each other like this:

*note* not my motherboard and not my cards.

If the cards need to be inserted into the dark blue/grey PCI-E slots then we might have some trouble.. these are big cards. Anyone know if this is or will be a problem? Thanks

 

[hunuok]

Unfortunately this is the correct configuration for crossfire.

If you install the second card in the bottom (ie black) PCIe slot, it will run at x4 speed. This will decrease performance.

Also, if you install the second card in the bottom, I don't think the crossfire bridge will reach that far. You can get extended bridges, but as I mentioned, performance will decrease.

 

[apav]

Do you think my case will be able to properly ventilate it?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119194

I heard these cards run much cooler than reference.

 

[axlrose]

I have two of these also. They are in a box with a 128gb M4 ssd, and a wd 500gb passport as backup. I'm hoping to install it all tonight and get BF3 up and running before I go to bed.

I have this board and have never run crossfire or sli before. Are my cards going to be hugging too?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188025

Thanks.

 

[axlrose]

Are the orange things the crossfire bridges?

 

[apav]

Are the orange things the crossfire bridges?

Yes they are. Tell me how it looks! Good luck!

 

[jyjjy]

Hi guys! I ordered 2 of these bad boys for my crossfire configuration:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102951

My only question is will there be some sort of gap between the cards on my board?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131729

I hope they won't be right ontop of each other like this:
http://img.inpai.com.cn/article/2011/2/12/a53e131f-2cb7-42b5-b7c3-a5a043c07d92.JPG
*note* not my motherboard and not my cards.

If the cards need to be inserted into the dark blue/grey PCI-E slots then we might have some trouble.. these are big cards. Anyone know if this is or will be a problem? Thanks

Your motherboard has 2 slots between the upper 2 PCI-E x16 slots so no, it will not be like in the picture you posted. There will be a slots worth of room for the upper card to get some air.

 

[axlrose]

Yeah, I have a slot between them for air. The board supports tri configurations, so where the third board would be in a tri setup, I have empty for airflow. I can't get crossfire setup though. I can't find anything in ccc where I can enable it. GPU-Z sees both cards and is monitoring the temps for me, but says crossfire in disabled. I don't know how to enable it...

 

[iam2thecrowe]

uninstall the drivers with driversweeper in safe mode so it removes all the registry entries and everything.then reboot and install the latest drivers again and you should be able to enable crossfire.

 

[axlrose]

I'll look into this, but I'm unfamiliar with using safe mode. I know I've been there a few times, but it's usually for a bad reason. Let me work up the courage to try the new software in safe mode and see what happens. Do I have a way to enter safe mode when the BIOS loads up?

Thanks.

 

[jyjjy]

The F8 key during startup should give you a menu that will let you load Windows in safe mode.

 

[axlrose]

In a holding pattern. Got the two toxics and unlocked the shaders on both. But I can't get crossfire to work. Latest tech support is saying crossfire can't be done on my board. That means three people that said it can and now one person that said it can't so it's apparently going to higher authority as I now own two of them...