how do i tell if my motherboard can trifire

Kaitlin Kaschak459 · Jun 25, 2014

hello i have an asus m2r32-mvp motherboard heres the asus link
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M2R32MVP/

what i want to know is if its possible for me to crossfire 2 4870X2 videocards i know i can crossfire 2 4870's but what about 2 dual gpu cards?

lfkfkfkffs · Jun 25, 2014

Well the 580 chipset was the highest end chipset back then and it was aimed at people looking to crossfire any type of card that had a single gpu or a double gpu. So you can, but I would still contact asus for some clarification

Kaitlin Kaschak459 · Jun 25, 2014

hey tried contacting asus it was like speaking to a wall there support is a joke

lfkfkfkffs · Jun 25, 2014

Well my best guess would be that it maybe will, but the card came out a few months after that chipset. So if we look at the release dates on everything, well we have an enthusiast grade chipset released late 2007, which was aimed towards the higher end video cards, and amd probably planned ahead of time for the support of this card. Then we have the video card that was released in early 2008. So I would go ahead and try it but try and find some sellers on ebay that allow returns, like look for a 15 or 30 day return blah blah. So if this doesn't work you can get your money back

Gam3r01 · Jun 25, 2014

If you can crossfire you can crossfire dual GPU cards. The motherboard itself isnt the constraint, that would be software.

(Also that would be quadfire if it was 2x 4870X2s)

Kaitlin Kaschak459 · Jun 25, 2014

would i be better off in a quadfire of 2 4870X2's or a crossfire of 2 single 4890's btw both games i play resident evil 5 and resident evil 6 both games support crossfire

Gam3r01 · Jun 25, 2014

The X2s should in theory add more performance, but quadfire scales horribly, even tri fire does. Personally a single card would be far superior.

Kaitlin Kaschak459 · Jun 25, 2014

thanks ill stick to single card crossfire

Gam3r01 · Jun 25, 2014

By single card I meant 1x 270x for example, no Xfire at all.

Kaitlin Kaschak459 · Jun 25, 2014

well i was thinking of 4890 crossfire

Gam3r01 · Jun 25, 2014

Xfiring low end cards is considered a waste of money to most. A single card allows for less power draw, less heat, and better scaling.

Kaitlin Kaschak459 · Jun 26, 2014

would an hd6990 which is a dual gpu card bottleneck my phenom 2 920 over clocked to 3.3ghz

Gam3r01 · Jun 26, 2014

Where are you even able to get a 6990 from? Those have been discontinued for years. Either way, the phenom would bottleneck it. My 965 at ~4GHz can support a 760, so I would aim for around that.

Kaitlin Kaschak459 · Jun 26, 2014

well i was gonna buyy my card off ebay as thats the cheapest i can find them but i might also consider new egg the 2 major games i play are resident evil 5 and resident evil 6 can you recomend me a decent high end gpu that will give me at least a steady 60 frames per second at 1280x720

Gam3r01 · Jun 26, 2014

What is your budget?

lfkfkfkffs · Jun 26, 2014

My wife plays that game all of the time, and she is more of a console gamer. She just uses our htpc which only has an fx 6300 and a r9 270x and I was watching her play it yesterday and it got like a solid 60 fps throughout the whole game. it peaked about 73 fps but it dropped down to about 43 when there was a lot going on

Kaitlin Kaschak459 · Jun 26, 2014

my budger is 200 and the card has to be a gpu that wont bottle neck my 920 phenom 2 as i cant afgford new cpu mobo and mem so im stuck with the 920

lfkfkfkffs · Jun 26, 2014

The r9 270x is under $200 and you can always carry the card over to another build. It will bottleneck by about 15% but it won't be to horrid of a bottleneck. If you want a card that won't bottleneck a 750 ti or a r7 265 might work best. The only problem that I have with some of the 750 ti cards is the uefi can cause the cards not to work correctly with the older motherboard bios

Gam3r01 · Jun 26, 2014

I would go with the 270x. Its strong enough to carry builds, but not so strong the phenom will bottleneck it enough to waste money.

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