ATI Radeon HD5850 and 6870 in Crossfire?

[Riki94]

I currently have a 5850 card on it's own which runs absolutely anything completely fine, but I was simply wondering if a 6870 would be compatible to go with it in CrossFire?
And if so, would be worth investing in this upgrade for my gaming rig?

Thanks for the answers.

 

[shadow187]

Nope, it's a different architecture. Only HD58X0 cards can be CF'd with eachother.

 

[wa1]

No, you can't CF HD5850 with HD6850.

Your specs are nice, but what about your monitor resolution?
A single HD5850 is enough to play most of games on HD monitor...

 

[AlienIsGOD]

Technically you can, Its called Lucid Hydra. But u need a new mobo for that... And yes it IS available these days http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130259

 

[Riki94]

Pretty expensive.. but yeah they have Lucid Hydra on Asus Crosshair IV Extreme. Was thinking about getting it but it was way too expensive.