crossfire bridge ?

[chaotic_uk]

10 days ago i bought the ocuk hd3870 , runs great but i am planning on getting another so i can crossfire them . but the cards do not come with the crossfire bridge , where do you get them from ?

 

[jak731]

i think i got mine with my MB (abit)

 

[chaotic_uk]

just checked my mobo box and it did not come with any , not sure where to get them either

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

just checked my mobo box and it did not come with any , not sure where to get them either

if you have an sli capable mobo then it would come with a bridge

 

[chaotic_uk]

mine is a crossfire mobo and did not come with any , but thats what you get when you buy a cheap make

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

mine is a crossfire mobo and did not come with any , but thats what you get when you buy a cheap make

well then it must have been missing, thats kinda poor tbh..

probably cost u a tenner just to get one seperate

 

[chaotic_uk]

thx for the info , any idea where i can get one from ? . do you need one ore two when crossfiring the hd3870 ?

 

[DaveOwl]

I could have sworn you no longer need them.

 

[MagicBoy]

Should come with the card, not the Motherboard. Cheaper value cards tend to skip them to save £££. I've got a OcUK value x1950 and a Sapphire - Sapphire had it in the box, OcUK didn't.

Try asking OcUK when you order the second card, otherwise try the bay...

 

[DaveOwl]

Suppose I was wrong. Wierd

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

thx for the info , any idea where i can get one from ?

Fleabay

if i had one spare i would have sold it to you cheapish, but none of my graphics cards have never come with a crossfire or sli bridge, one came in my mobo box.

 

[MagicBoy]

Software crossfire only tends to be supported on older, slower chipsets eg x1600. The hardware version is faster and more efficient as it's not clogging up the PCI-e bus with extra traffic. Bear in mind most Intel chipset motherboards up to the P35 run the cards in 16x+4x mode so the extra overhead for software mode on the second card is more noticeable.

 

[ACESHIGH]

My understanding is that for crossfire each card should come with 1x crossfire bridge and thus when you have 2 cards you have 2x crossfire bridges as that is how much you need (forward and reverse paths i believe). Though the cheaper (OEM) cards sometimes do not come with a crossfire bridge.

However if you buy the 2nd card from OcUK, tell them this is your 2nd card and that you would like to be supplied with the 2x crossfire bridges (though if you buy a 2nd namebrand card like HIS, Gigabyte, Sapphire, Powercolor, Asus etc you will get 1x crossfire bridge anyway) as you want to run crossfire, and see if they are good enough to give them to you.

 

[havoc08]

free to good home 1 crossfire bridge that came with my hd3870x2 email me @ [email protected] 1st come 1st serve