crossfire configuration help

I am going to build a crossfire computer myself, and I went to the crossfire website and read about crossfire. It says to enable crossfire, you must hava a crossfire motherboard, crossfire edition graphics card and one crossfire ready graphics card. To use crossfire, will I have to have a crossfire edition graphics card, or can I use two crossfire ready cards instead?

You will have to use one Crossfire master card in the pair, unless you're using two X1800GTOs or two 1900GTs.

That's all you'll need; happy gaming.

i orderd a x1900 GT crossfire ready card on friday so all i need is another one and ill be good to go?

there's a difference between crossfire-ready and crossfire edition. All x1000s are crossfire ready, but not crossfire edition. You need the master card - crossfire edition - the one with the funny connector.

Well, good luck with that! Let me know if/how that works for you.

for some cards you can use crossfire without the dongle and communicate through the pci-e bus. i am not sure which cards work and which does it but i think you only need it for the x18 and x1900 seires. i may be wrong.

to the OP. depending on what cards you are getting you might be able to use the 2 c/f ready cards. it is a bit late in the day to be doing crossfire with current cards since new gen ones may or may not be out soon. still why not buy the x1900 256MB card. that would be an excellent card or if you don;t care about the new cards just get 2 x1900xt's. one master, one ready.

IMO have a look at what performance you get in games and if you don;t like it get another or a single better card which ever is cheaper. if low on funds make do with what you got and save up for something that you will be satisfied with .