SLI & Crossfire question

vanmol · 11-09-2007, 03:40 PM

Looking to put together a new barebones system. See a lot of the SLI and Crossfire graphic cards offered. The question is can I run just one Radeon x1650 XT Crossfire card with the ASus M2r32 MVP or do you have to hook up two cards if you have a Crossfire supported MB? If you can run just one card will that negatively affect the MB performance in any way?

SpeedDMN · 11-09-2007, 04:01 PM

Used to be you had to have one regular card and one that only works only for Xfire. They have changed this to be working with 2 of the same cards that can also both be used individualy. As far as the mainboard goes it makes no difference to it whether you use 2 or 1 especially with a 32 lane board (like that one) one or both will use a full 16x. personally I haven't seen any real time difference with 2 cards sharing 16 lanes. In other words yes, no, and no.

11-09-2007, 03:40 PM	#1
vanmol Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 246	SLI & Crossfire question Looking to put together a new barebones system. See a lot of the SLI and Crossfire graphic cards offered. The question is can I run just one Radeon x1650 XT Crossfire card with the ASus M2r32 MVP or do you have to hook up two cards if you have a Crossfire supported MB? If you can run just one card will that negatively affect the MB performance in any way?
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11-09-2007, 04:01 PM	#2
SpeedDMN Silicon Avatar Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hyde Park, NY Posts: 2,927	Re: SLI & Crossfire question Used to be you had to have one regular card and one that only works only for Xfire. They have changed this to be working with 2 of the same cards that can also both be used individualy. As far as the mainboard goes it makes no difference to it whether you use 2 or 1 especially with a 32 lane board (like that one) one or both will use a full 16x. personally I haven't seen any real time difference with 2 cards sharing 16 lanes. In other words yes, no, and no. __________________
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