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Crossfire sapphire hd 5570

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February 26, 2011 3:15:12 AM

Soo im trying to figure out how im supposed to crossfire 2 sapphire hd 5570's. the box says theyre crossfire compatible but i dont see the place on the card where im supposed to place the crossfire bridge. Does anybody have this card and knws how to crossfire this? if so please include pics. thanks.

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February 26, 2011 3:23:08 AM

I used to have an old PowerColor 5570.I just checked it and it doesn't have it either.I think it might have something to do with the low profile cards.
Who made your 5570?

Here's a Saphire version that has the crossfirebrige,you can see it on the oppoiste side of the pci-expressx16 side.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
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February 26, 2011 5:57:56 AM

if you read the instructions, you would find you do NOT need a bridge to crossfire these cards. All the communication is done through the pcie bus. Only the higher end cards need a bridge. You DO however, need 2 16x slots or you will probably experience poor performance.

read this if you dont believe me http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1209/2/
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February 26, 2011 6:05:09 AM

the performance might get closer to hd 5750.if you can crossfire but you would see a certain poor fps in many games.
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February 26, 2011 6:07:54 AM

only if your both hd 5570s are ddr5 versions! :p 
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February 26, 2011 1:52:06 PM

Two 5570's should crossfire just fine on 8x/8x or 16x/4x. They're not close to saturating that bandwidth, even using the PCI-e bus to communicate. Together, they should match a 5770 in performance.

If possible, a single more powerful card would be preferred to crossfiring 5570's. Also, make sure you PSU has enough power for two cards drawing 75 Watts from the PCI-e bus (http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp).

Your memory setup shouldn't have to match on them to use both as crossfire isn't as strict as SLI for matching cards--you just need the same GPU series. So a 5850 can crossfire with a 5870, I think, but they can't crossfire with a 5770.
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