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Priapus

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Howzit Guys,

Well this may seem a silly question but I would like to confirm something here..

I've seen recent motherboards offering Crossfire support and others offering SLI support. Am I correct in saying that it's the same thing as in I can use two nVidia cards on a crossfire board and vice versa with ATi cars?

I know crossfire is ATi which doesn't require the bridge between the two cards and SLi does; hence the confusion here. :(

Thanks. :)
 
Ice On Fire said:
Howzit Guys,

Well this may seem a silly question but I would like to confirm something here..

I've seen recent motherboards offering Crossfire support and others offering SLI support. Am I correct in saying that it's the same thing as in I can use two nVidia cards on a crossfire board and vice versa with ATi cars?

I know crossfire is ATi which doesn't require the bridge between the two cards and SLi does; hence the confusion here. :(

Thanks. :)
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can only use nvidia on sli and ati on crossfire as far as i know.
 
yup...

Crossfire = 2 ATI single GPU cards
CrossfireX (or whatever they call it) = Up to 4 ATI cards
SLI = 2 Nvidia Cards
Do believe there is also a triple or quad SLI version out or comming out at some point
 
SLI can be done without bridges - on top end cards it will reduce performance marginally... on heavily overclocked top end cards it might even be a serious bottleneck but on slower cards like the 8600GT it should work fine with no performance penalty.

most SLI compatible motherboards can also run crossfire fine tho there are some exceptions... a lot of motherboards that support crossfire will not run SLI however.
 
TriSLI is out atm as the name suggests its 3 cards, only GTX and Ultra Series will do it. Tho trying GT's and GTS's is on my list

Quad SLI has been around for years in server side boards for rendering, cad stations ect. I cannot see true quad SLI boards comming to the normal motherboard market any time soon. Nvidia's new 9800GX2 card ( 2x GTS's in one package )will be able to run quad SLI, Tho i could be wrong :)
 
Personally I wouldn't really want tri or quad SLI for gaming... unless your running very high framerates (in which case benchmarking aside why have tri/quad???) you start to get noticeable input lag.
 
I see. Just as I thought. I take it that both type of motherboards can support a single ATi or nVidia card, regardless of Crossfire or SLi branding ect?

Thanks all.
 
Ice On Fire said:
I see. Just as I thought. I take it that both type of motherboards can support a single ATi or nVidia card, regardless of Crossfire or SLi branding ect?

Thanks all.
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They can.
It's not marketed very well IMO.
Single card just needs to fit the slot.
Seen the same questions about SLI-Ready Edition Ram. Do I need an SLI system to run it etc.
 
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