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New HD3870
Hello all, I would like to know if the crossfire will work if I have an
HD3870, then later on, add one of the new dual core GPUs? |
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Carl wrote:
Hello all, I would like to know if the crossfire will work if I have an HD3870, then later on, add one of the new dual core GPUs? What new dual core GPU's? I doubt it would work as they must be the same cards. At least that is how Nvidia's SLI works, maybe it is different for Crossfire but I doubt it. Game support for Crossfire is not very good anyway. |
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What new dual core GPU's? I doubt it would work as they must be the
same cards. At least that is how Nvidia's SLI works, maybe it is different for Crossfire but I doubt it. Game support for Crossfire is not very good anyway. ATI has a dual processor GPU available in the new year. Older iterations of crossfire allowed different models of card to work together, ie a high end and a midrange card, or, in the case or that fatal1ty branded motherboard, for the onboard graphics chip to work with a PCI express ATi graphics card. |
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"Carl" wrote in message ... What new dual core GPU's? I doubt it would work as they must be the same cards. At least that is how Nvidia's SLI works, maybe it is different for Crossfire but I doubt it. Game support for Crossfire is not very good anyway. ATI has a dual processor GPU available in the new year. Older iterations of crossfire allowed different models of card to work together, ie a high end and a midrange card, or, in the case or that fatal1ty branded motherboard, for the onboard graphics chip to work with a PCI express ATi graphics card. Yes, they do but in a Crossfire setup, they all run at the slowest speed of the various installed cards. Which is one big reason why the Nvidia SLI setup is more desirable and restrictive as to what pairs with what since perfromance is the entire point.. If ATI does release a new dual core GPU unit, odds are it's be an even faster clocked flagship product and latching an HD3870 onto it, if even possible, would slow it down. |
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Thanks, Augustus. What I intend to do is put the 3870 into my second PC, I
bought it to do me until the new year, as my HD2900XT is returned to the seller for testing, and I had read that this new dual core GPU is two 3870's on the one board. But, time will tell! I thought that, in Crossfire, that if you have a faster card and a slower card, that the workload is split say 70- 30 between the faster card and the slower card? |
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You talking about the HD3870 X2? That card consists of two HD3870 GPUs
running in Crossfire mode on a single board, similar to the Rage Fury Maxx and Voodoo5 5500. Theoretically, using the HD3870 X2 along with your existing card would be 3-way Crossfire. The performance boost over a 2-way Crossfire setup (i.e. just the X2 board) would be minimal, because Crossfire doesn't scale linearly. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Carl" wrote in message ... Hello all, I would like to know if the crossfire will work if I have an HD3870, then later on, add one of the new dual core GPUs? |
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Thank you, First of One.
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Carl wrote:
ATI has a dual processor GPU available in the new year. Older iterations of crossfire allowed different models of card to work together, ie a high end and a midrange card, or, in the case or that fatal1ty branded motherboard, for the onboard graphics chip to work with a PCI express ATi graphics card. OK, didn't know that. I already have dual core GPU. 7950GX2. |
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