Closed

Crossfire with Different Manufacturers

Tags:

Last response: October 11, 2010 10:22 AM in Graphics & Displays

October 4, 2010 6:34:55 AM

So they've apparently discontinued my graphics card, the GIGABYTE Radeon 5850 (GV-R585D5-1GD-B), but I heard from someone that you can crossfire the 5850 with one from another manufacturer (eg HIS). Does anyone have any conformation on this? If so, is there a specific guideline I should follow?

My gut is telling me that they won't work, and if they do only a select few would.

EDIT: 5850 in Question

More about : crossfire manufacturers

| Report abuse

Best solution

Twoboxer

Graphics card Authority

October 4, 2010 7:18:09 AM

Different manufacturer's are OK. More guidelines here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-crossfire-nvidia-sli-multi-gpu,2678-6.html

| Report abuse

wa1

Graphics card Master

October 4, 2010 3:45:48 PM

It's fine, don't worry about that, you can use different brand as long as the card type is the same (in this case HD5850).

| Report abuse

jaguarskx

Graphics card Master

October 4, 2010 4:13:38 PM

You should be fine. BTW, it's brand names, not manufactures.

There are only a handful of manufactures (OEM) out there; one of them is PC Partners and it is the parent company of Sapphire. These OEMs manufacture video cards and slaps brand name stickers on them.