Is this motherboard capable on crossfire?

[James Convento]

Im currently looking at this http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3934#ov

It has x2 PCI-ex16 slot but I can't acknowledge if it's capable of crossfire.

Sorry im a noob.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

No. It has 1 slot at x16 and 1 slot at x4. Also any boards capable of Crossfire or Sli advertise the fact.

 

[CheesyHotDogPuff]

if I remember correctly crossfire needs at least x4 lanes of pcie3 to crossfire. Sli needs x8 lanes of pcie3 to sli.

 

[James Convento]

if I remember correctly crossfire needs at least x4 lanes of pcie3 to crossfire. Sli needs x8 lanes of pcie3 to sli.

So you're saying that it can crossfire?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

The board is advertised as having "AMD Dual Graphics technology support". That is not the same as traditional Crossfire. It basically means you can Crossfire a traditional GPU with the APU. Explained fully here:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/235064/gpu.html

If you want to run a Crossfire setup get a more powerful traditional CPU to push it. Also you are almost always better off with a single more powerful GPU than Crossfire or Sli. Not all games support a multi GPU setup and there is micro stuttering to deal with. With a multi monitor or very high resolution single monitor setup with 2 x high end cards being necessary you want a powerful CPU and not an APU that would bottleneck the cards.

Crossfire and Sli technologies are licensed from AMD and Nvidia. Meaning if the board supports it it will be advertised as such since the board manufacturer pays to include it.

 

[James Convento]

The board is advertised as having "AMD Dual Graphics technology support". That is not the same as traditional Crossfire. It basically means you can Crossfire a traditional GPU with the APU. Explained fully here:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/235064/gpu.html

If you want to run a Crossfire setup get a more powerful traditional CPU to push it. Also you are almost always better off with a single more powerful GPU than Crossfire or Sli. Not all games support a multi GPU setup and there is micro stuttering to deal with. With a multi monitor or very high resolution single monitor setup with 2 x high end cards being necessary you want a powerful CPU and not an APU that would bottleneck the cards.

Crossfire and Sli technologies are licensed from AMD and Nvidia. Meaning if the board supports it it will be advertised as such since the board manufacturer pays to include it.

Thanks for your answer

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Glad to help!