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Guys help me please sorry if this is a noob question, I have my old pc . and put another video card crossfire it to improve gaming performance ( 2 x Gecube hd 4850 512 mb ). here’s the specs:

Operating system: windows xp professional x64 edition

Amd atlon 64 x2 6000 3.0ghz

Asus m2n-sli 560 sli
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131246

4 gig 2x2 kingston ddr2 pc 800

Gecube hd 4850 512 mb
http://www.shopbot.com.au/pp-gecub [...] 16753.html

My problem is when I play games as if I can’t feel the improvement. So heres my questions:

1. How would I know if crossfire is running?

2. How could I improve the cooling ? cause when I play games the temperature reaches 80 to 90C.

3. Then I try to enable the manual fan control and set it to 75%, and still too hot and too loud. Plus when I reboot the pc. When pc starts to boot again, I don’t hear the fun running at 75%.... you need to open the catalyst control center again to activate the fan speed to 75%.

Any help would be much appreciated

Message edited by zealotz on 06-19-2009 at 07:49:58 PM

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When you restart your pc the fan will spin based on its temp, not what ever you put on CCC.
you have to enter CCC and select the crossfire tab and activated, the screen will blink for a few secs and and thats it. You can right click the CCC icon on the task bar and select the 1st 4850 and you will see an option to show you when Crossfire is active.

you should see an ati logo on your screen, and also crossfire only works with fullscreen.

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Sigh...

You have an SLI motherboard. It does not support crossfire.

/thread

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------------------------------ ASUS PQ5 PRO - E4500 @ 3.3 - 4GB GSkill DDR2 800 @ 4-4-4-10 - Sapphire 4850 512MB @ 655/1015 - Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB - Win 7 64-bit - PC Power & Cooling S61EPS 610W Power Supply
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OMG lol I didnt see that!

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daedalus685 wrote :

Sigh...

You have an SLI motherboard. It does not support crossfire.

/thread

thanks guys i didn't know that P lol hehehe wow what a big mistake

Message edited by zealotz on 06-20-2009 at 07:09:55 PM

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daedalus685 wrote :

Sigh...

You have an SLI motherboard. It does not support crossfire.

/thread

Now I’m planning to change the motherboard, with this motherboards
which one is better? For crossfire setting to price and performance ratio, is it worth it to get the expensive mobo or not?

1. GA-MA780G-UD3H (rev .1.0)
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Product [...] A780G-UD3H

2. GA-MA790X-UD4 (rev. 1.0)
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Product [...] uctID=3002
Any help would be much appreciated

Message edited by zealotz on 06-23-2009 at 09:02:00 PM

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