X1900XTX and Crossfire

[cgreentx]

I am confused a bit by the CrossFire technology and wanted to find out the correct answer. If I have an X1900XTX and I want to do crossfire, do I purchase another XTX unit, or do I purchase an X1900XTX to act as my second card? I find conflicting answers all over the place and I'm hoping that someone here can help out.

Chris Green

 

[cgreentx]

Also, can you run Crossfire on the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe.

Chris

 

[cgreentx]

I called ATI and was told that you need a Crossfire Edition card for the master. Based on that I will probably just buy an XT. Now I still need to know about the motherboard though.. Anyone?

Chris

 

[Vokofpolisiekar]

For Crossfire, you need a Crossfire Master Card, which currently is spec'ed at XT levels. Then you will require a normal XT or XTX (apparantly you can get a bit better performance using Master XT and normal XTX in crossfire). There were rumours once that no master card is required, but I think it only applies to mid range cards (X1600). And obviously you need a Crossfire mobo and a biggish PSU...

 

[cgreentx]

And obviously you need a Crossfire mobo and a biggish PSU...

I'm taking from this that you do, in fact, require an ATI chipset motherboard for this to work?

Chris Green

 

[FITCamaro]

Yes you either need an ATI Xpress Crossfire edition motherboard or one based on their new 3200 chip. Can't run Crossfire with an SLI motherboard.

 

[cgreentx]

I'm suffering from my own ego here.. Knowing the 3200 is out I can't bring myself to buy the 200 series.. however the 3200 seems to only be available right now on the ASUS A8R-MVP which nobody has in stock. Thanks for the help guys.. now I have to decide if I give in and get a 200 series chip, or just wait a month. 😉

Chris Green

 

[RichPLS]

They are available now.
I found one available Friday.
A8R32-MVP $249

I will be getting one in the coming few weeks myself.

 

[Heyyou27]

However you can run Crossfire on the Intel 975X.

 

[cgreentx]

They are available now.
I found one available Friday.
A8R32-MVP $249

I will be getting one in the coming few weeks myself.

That's the only site that I foudn "in stock" on and that makes me nervous. I also know nothing about them. Ingram and Tech Data are both on back-order. Leaning a bit toward NVidia now. 🙁

Chris Green

 

[cgreentx]

However you can run Crossfire on the Intel 975X.

Not with an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 😉

Chris Green

 

[Heyyou27]

You didn't mention that. 😛