question about crossfire

[Lee]

A sapphire Radeon X1300 PCI-E.

Will one of these work on an Asus AN8-E motherboard, as a single card ? I've noticed on a picture of the retail box, it gives 3 things you need to \"complete your multi-gpu platform\" The AN8-E isn't a crossfire anabled motherboard, but am confused about the \"multi\" reference. Is this ATI's version of running Nvidia's SLI ?


Thanks.

[mac124]

[quote:a809a0d753=\"Lee\"] A sapphire Radeon X1300 PCI-E.

Will one of these work on an Asus AN8-E motherboard, as a single card ? [/quote:a809a0d753]

Yes any single graphics card will work on any mothrboard, so i am led to believe, as long as it actually has the correct slot for it to plug into. :wink:
[quote:a809a0d753=\"Lee\"] I've noticed on a picture of the retail box, it gives 3 things you need to \"complete your multi-gpu platform\" The AN8-E isn't a crossfire anabled motherboard, but am confused about the \"multi\" reference. Is this ATI's version of running Nvidia's SLI ?
[/quote:a809a0d753]

Yep Crossfire is Ati's version of SLI.

[Lee]

Thanks for that Mac, I suspected as much. :)

[mac124]

No probs mate, glad to help.

x1300 is a good little card, as long as you understand its limitations, i reviewed an Asus (iirc) one a while back with a silent heatpipe setup on it and was quite impressed with what they can actually do considering they are the baby of the x1000 range.

[Devils-Blood]

You will need a good PSU to run crossfire, if your PSU is not upto the job it won't run crossfire.

Here is a article on PSU's that will run crossfire.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/371/1/ This one isn't available in the UK yet but looks very good.

Here is a 8 way shoot out of PSU's that will run crossfire. Most PSU's just can't cope with crossfire and just crumble.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/348/1/