Quick crossfire question

billyboyd · 16 May 2006 at 20:57

I'm going to be upgrading shortly to an Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS) and i would like a Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (3055) (GX-046-CO) to go with it but do i have to get a master or slave one :confused:

or maybe it doesn't matter. I'm only going to be running the one card only.

Thanks in advance

Mp4 · 16 May 2006 at 21:56

you only need the Master card if your going to run 2 cards , you can use the xtx seprate as a main card

gr1mey · 19 May 2006 at 17:28

that motherboard doesnt even support crossfire.

squiffy · 19 May 2006 at 17:41

gr1mey said:
that motherboard doesnt even support crossfire.

Expensive mistake if he bought two X1900's! :eek:

If you want to go Crossfire you'll need a ATI 480 or 580 based motherboard (see sig) Also Abit and DFI versions

gr1mey · 19 May 2006 at 19:36

the OP states he is using only one card, but if he's using only one card on a board that doesnt even support crossfire then why is he asking about crossfire? :confused:

squiffy · 19 May 2006 at 19:43

No idea. Crossfire and SLI are dual cards and require their respective ATI and Nvidia Nforce chipsets. Probably getting confused, or thinks can use SLI on ATI, or Crossfire on Nvidia.