Is it possible to have two radeon GPUs of different series in the same system?

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lordcookiethe3rd

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If I wasn't planning on crossfire, could I have, say, a 7870 and a 7790 in the same system, one powering games etc and one for mining cryptocurrency?
 
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Yes, you can have two different cards in one system. I have a 7870 GHZ Ed mining Litecoins slowly, while I game on a 7870 LE. Two different cores, so I can't crossrire, but both are in there running fine. Long as you have the room and the PSU you can do it, I had a 7970 in there too for a while, but my brother built another mining computer and needed it back.
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Yes, you can have two different cards in one system. I have a 7870 GHZ Ed mining Litecoins slowly, while I game on a 7870 LE. Two different cores, so I can't crossrire, but both are in there running fine. Long as you have the room and the PSU you can do it, I had a 7970 in there too for a while, but my brother built another mining computer and needed it back.
 
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Bitcoin mining. Bitcoins are an online currency that are used for anonymous payments mostly with Tor and/or the dark net. Calculating the cryptographic key is very complex and some people run the calculations on their GPU for a share of the bitcoins they generate, which is called mining. He is mining with one GPU and playing with the other.

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Using both cards in crossfire for gaming is not possible. You need the same model with the same amount of VRAM. There is no way around that. I have heard from several sources that they are mining with two different cards though.
 
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