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Do i need to do anything so my two graphic cards work together?

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Allwright1994   11-02-2009 at 09:57:51 PM

I have a two ATI Radeon X1900 XT Graphic Cards and i've order my new motherboard and i want to know what i do to get the two graphic cards to work together or dont i have to anything? Please Help!

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Xelios   11-02-2009 at 10:11:17 PM
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I believe it would only require a capable motherboard and power supply, and a crossfire bridge (the band that connects them 2).

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Bronze Graphics badge jay2tall   11-02-2009 at 10:14:41 PM
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One of them needs to be the x1900xt Crossfire Edition card (aka a Master Card). You also need the crossfire DVI dongle that comes with the card. Basically, back in the day whe Crossfire first came out you needed a Master Card + a regular card OR (2) Master Cards. They used a dongle that plugged into the DVI out on one card and a special connector on the master card.

The cards now ALL have Crossfire built in and use a Crossfire bridge. Back in the day with the x1900's, you needed special cards. BLAH!, i know I had an x1900xtx and wanted to do this but the master cards were expensive and hard to find.

Looks like this.

http://intercomp.net.ru/Grafica/video/x1900_xtx/crossfire-on-mb.jpg

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Xelios   11-02-2009 at 10:30:23 PM
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Oh...wow...I was way off :(

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Allwright1994   11-02-2009 at 10:32:26 PM
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jay2tall wrote :

One of them needs to be the x1900xt Crossfire Edition card (aka a Master Card). You also need the crossfire DVI dongle that comes with the card. Basically, back in the day whe Crossfire first came out you needed a Master Card + a regular card OR (2) Master Cards. They used a dongle that plugged into the DVI out on one card and a special connector on the master card.

The cards now ALL have Crossfire built in and use a Crossfire bridge. Back in the day with the x1900's, you needed special cards. BLAH!, i know I had an x1900xtx and wanted to do this but the master cards were expensive and hard to find.

Looks like this.

http://intercomp.net.ru/Grafica/vi [...] -on-mb.jpg




So if i brought a new ATI Radeon Graphic off the shelf i could connect it up with one or both of my X1900 XT(s). Would that link them all up together??

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Bronze Graphics badge jay2tall   11-02-2009 at 11:03:10 PM
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No, you can only use a x1900 Crossfire Edition card an a x1900XT,x1900XTX, x1900 CF Edition card together. I also believe you can use the x1950 cards.

If you got a new ATI card you may as well not even use the x1900xt cards. They have to be of the same series to crossfire.

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