Ati - Crossfire question

[ssjninjamonkey]

I'm going to get an PowerColor ATI Radeon X1950 XT Extreme for a few months until I upgrade to Crossfire and my question is thus

If I get a motherboard that is able to implement Crossfire for example MSI K9A Platinum Crossfire and I use the PowerColor ATI Radeon X1950 XT Extreme that does not have Crossfire capability will it still work ? obviously it won't work with crossfire but will it still work as a single until I get my 2 new cards ?

 

[Jono8]

I think all you will need to do is buy an additional crossfire edition card and link them up. The single card will work fine on its own.

 

[ssjninjamonkey]

So if I just had that card alone it will still work perfectly...

 

[Jono8]

http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/certified.html

watch the 'how it works demo'

Im positive that you can but that single card now and then just get a crossfire edition of the same card and it will work in crossfire.

However i am not sure it will work with the extreme addition, may have to get the x1950pro if you intend on getting crossfire.

 

[ssjninjamonkey]

http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/certified.html

watch the 'how it works demo'

Im positive that you can but that single card now and then just get a crossfire edition of the same card and it will work in crossfire.

However i am not sure it will work with the extreme addition, may have to get the x1950pro if you intend on getting crossfire.

I'm getting 2 ATI HD cards in a few months, this is just for now so the card will never be used in a Crossfire config

 

[BubbySoup]

It'll work just fine.

 

[ACESHIGH]

Card will work perfectly fine just by itself.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

As above, also you don't have to get a crossfire edition now as ATi done away with the master cards months ago, although you can still do it that way if you can get a master, or have one, but if you can't find a master card, then any other x1950 XT will do, but there is a slight drawback as you do get a bit of a performance hit when you don't do it the master card way.

I think they implemented Crossfire into the CAT 6.12's first, or the 11's.