7950GX2 on a crossfire?

[burn-e86]

since the 7950 is physically a single card (well 2 cards stuck together, but one PCIe slot) does it mean that you can run it on a crossfire mobo?
or will you only be able to run 1 card?
or will it smoke and burn? (or you burn...afterall you've just spent a bucket load of money on a new card)
anyway back to the point, can you run SLI using this card on a crossfire?

apology if this has been brought up already

 

[Gary_Busey]

You can run it on a Crossfire enabled motherboard. It act's just like any single GPU Nvidia card. I don't know why you'd get a Crossfire motherboard though, and then get a 7950GX2.

 

[burn-e86]

dont know either but hell if i've go the money to get anything new anyway :lol:
I've just wondered if it was possible to go SLI on a crossfire

 

[Gary_Busey]

dont know either but hell if i've go the money to get anything new anyway :lol:
I've just wondered if it was possible to go SLI on a crossfire

Well a 7950GX2 behaves like any regular single slot PCI-E card. So it's SLI in that it uses two Nvidia GPU's, but it doesn't require an SLI compatible board. Therefore, it can work with any board that has a PCI-E slot. However, you cannot run SLI using two seperate Nvidia cards on a Crossfire board, if that's what you mean.

 

[Multiplectic]

Here's a list of the compatible mobos for the 7950GX2: Link

There's only ONE Crossfire mobo listed so far. So, yes, a single 7950GX2 can be paired with a Crossfire mobo.

 

[Gary_Busey]

My point was why would you spend the money to get a crossfire board, only to put a single Nvidia card on it. Why not just save the money and get a single slot PCI-E board.

 

[Multiplectic]

You should read Wusy's post again.

Why? Overclocking.

RD480-based mobos are Crossfire mobos. I can't think of any RD480-based mobo that doesn't feature Crossfire (single PCI-E 16x).

 

[Gary_Busey]

Still seems like a waste of money to me.