I recently purchased the "Titan Gamer Extreme" Crossfire HD 4850 AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 3.00GHz SILENT DDR2 System (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-030-OK&groupid=43&catid=1184&subcat=&name="Titan%20Gamer%20Extreme"%20Crossfire%20HD%204850%20AMD%20Athlon%20X2%206000+%203.00GHz%20SILENT%20DDR2%20System)
last month, and I have no complaints about the computer itself, however it wasn't until yesterday that a friend of mine noticed I only had 1 graphics card showing in my device manager. I was sure that everything was fine, but he was adamant that his computer, also running the 2 ATI Radeon 4850's had shown 2 in his device manager. Not being so knowledgeable about computers myself, I decided to look this up on google with no success, I couldn't pinpoint what the problem was and I was unable to find a similar situation posted with a solution.
I rang Overclockers support this morning and I was told everything was normal, that the reason my device manager was only showing one was because it was running something called SLI. I accepted it and carried on, but it wasnt until I put the phone down and searched for SLI that I saw it was an Nvidia based application.
I took the liberty of taking 2 screenshots of my situation, on the off chance that my post wasnt as informative as i had hoped, and as they say, pictures speak a thousand words.
The first one is of my device manager, clearly showing only 1 graphics card:
http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=devicemanagerlk9.jpg
The second screenshot is of the Catalyst Control Centre(CCC), also showing 1 graphics card:
http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cccja8.jpg
This screenshot also shows that the memory for the card selected is 512, however if it was indeed 2 combined to show as 1, would it not combined the two for a 1024?
Any information, help and guidance is appreciated, I do not wish to make a fool out of myself or the Overclockers support, however i was told to post this here, for a second opinion.
last month, and I have no complaints about the computer itself, however it wasn't until yesterday that a friend of mine noticed I only had 1 graphics card showing in my device manager. I was sure that everything was fine, but he was adamant that his computer, also running the 2 ATI Radeon 4850's had shown 2 in his device manager. Not being so knowledgeable about computers myself, I decided to look this up on google with no success, I couldn't pinpoint what the problem was and I was unable to find a similar situation posted with a solution.
I rang Overclockers support this morning and I was told everything was normal, that the reason my device manager was only showing one was because it was running something called SLI. I accepted it and carried on, but it wasnt until I put the phone down and searched for SLI that I saw it was an Nvidia based application.
I took the liberty of taking 2 screenshots of my situation, on the off chance that my post wasnt as informative as i had hoped, and as they say, pictures speak a thousand words.
The first one is of my device manager, clearly showing only 1 graphics card:
http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=devicemanagerlk9.jpg
The second screenshot is of the Catalyst Control Centre(CCC), also showing 1 graphics card:
http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cccja8.jpg
This screenshot also shows that the memory for the card selected is 512, however if it was indeed 2 combined to show as 1, would it not combined the two for a 1024?
Any information, help and guidance is appreciated, I do not wish to make a fool out of myself or the Overclockers support, however i was told to post this here, for a second opinion.