Can I crossfire two gpus with different pci-e slots?

deramatic351 · Apr 14, 2016

Hi guys. I am planning to crossfire 2 amd gpus. The problem is not the gpu as they are both exactly the same. But can I insert one card at a PCI-E x16 slot and the other one at a x8 slot and get to crossfire them?

techgeek · Apr 14, 2016

Is the X8 slot physically and logically a X8 slot? Or is it a X16 physical slot and logically (wired) X8?

Maybe it'd be easier if we knew what motherboard you had.

deramatic351 · Apr 14, 2016

techgeek :

My motherboard is an ASUSTek P8H61-M LE

techgeek · Apr 14, 2016

I'm sorry to say, if that's your motherboard, you don't have a X8 slot. That motherboard has 1 PCI-E 2.0 X16 slot, 2 PCI-E 2.0 X1 slots, and a PCI slot. That motherboard doesn't support CrossFire because it doesn't have a second PCI-E slot wide enough to support it

deramatic351 · Apr 14, 2016

techgeek :

Sad but thank you for your help anyways!

techgeek · Apr 14, 2016

No problem. I hate to be the bearer of bad news. The upside is that it's always better to have the single fastest card you can afford anyways. As mature as SLI / CrossFire are at this point, there is still issues with them. Some games never benefit from it, some behave oddly, some crash, etc. Sometimes the problems get fixed, and sometimes they don't. It's very frustrating to have a second card in your system twiddling it's thumbs when there isn't a profile that enables SLI / CrossFire.

deramatic351 · Apr 14, 2016

techgeek :

It's fine. I was going to get an ASUS Strix GTX 960 soon but for now I'll be using an AMD GPU. Thank you once again!

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