GPU-Z reports 3rd crossfire card is disabled?

[chief barker]

Just a quickie chaps,

I've just installed GPU-Z and it says that my 5870 is disabled, in the drop down boxes for the cards both the 5970's say that crossfire is enabled (3 GPUs) but when I select the 5870 it says it's disabled.



Is this normal?

 

[RedGooner]

Was OS are you using. The latest GPU-Z says my SLI is disabled under Win XP 32bit, but under Win 7 64bit is enabled. And i know and seen it working under SLI in both.

I say its more a GPU-Z issue more than anything...

 

[uv]

both the 5970's

So you have 2x5970s and 1x5870? This would be a total of five GPUs, and iirc Vista only allows a max of four GPUs (XP allows a max of two GPUs) - I'm not certain on the limitation for Windows 7, but I'd expect it to be four also, being that Win7 was built upon Vista.

 

[magicroundabout]

remember the 5970 is 2xgpu. so having two of them takes you upto your quota of 4 GPU's.

and why would you require 2 x 5970 + 5870??!!

 

[Scougar]

I'm sure he mean's that in GPU-Z the two options for the 5970 are showing ok, and that the third option for the 5870 is not. (rather than having 2 5970's that you guys are thinking).

 

[chief barker]

I'm sure he mean's that in GPU-Z the two options for the 5970 are showing ok, and that the third option for the 5870 is not. (rather than having 2 5970's that you guys are thinking).

That is correct mate thanks

Sorry for the misunderstanding to all the others.........I don't do mornings at all.

Thinking about it, it must be GPU-Z reporting it wrong as I am getting activity on all three when playing games.

 

[stulid]

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