How can you tell if a gfx card is crossfire ready?

[Guru]

I've got an X1950XTX and I don't know if it's crossfire capable or not.

Cheers,

G

 

[gurusan]

yup it's crossfire capable.

But personally I'd just upgrade to a single better card.

 

[Antx777]

Wasn't it ATI Drivers that made the these cards "crossfire compatable" - which once required a master card (or something)?

As Above though, get a 8800

~Ant

 

[gurusan]

i think the x1950 series don't need mastercards, where the x1900s did

 

[Antx777]

i think the x1950 series don't need mastercards, where the x1900s did

No, but if he elects for the new GX280 - He'll definitly need his mastercard


yea, i remember now, was the 1900 series - good cards in there day though.


~Ant

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Still best to use a master card for the old Crossfire, as doing it the software way (through the drivers) gave a performance hit, and the only cards i think that can't do software Crossfire (so still need the master) are the x1800's, as they didn't implement the Crossfire into the drivers until a good while after the x1800's were EOL'd.

Id agree with the above though, we now have single cards which are faster than 2x x1950's now, so id just get one of those.