Help with dual Video Cards.

[tomdabomb]

I am going to be putting in a second radeon 5750 into my computer and i was just wondering if i will need any extra cables or anything. I have a PCI cable. but will i need a bridge or something to connect the two cards together?

 

[po1nted]

Yes, you will need a Crossfire bridge. Is your motherboard Crossfire compatible?

 

[tomdabomb]

My motherboard is CF compatible. is the bridge all i will need?

 

[Nim Chimpsky]

My motherboard is CF compatible. is the bridge all i will need?

As long as by "PCI cable" you mean a power cable.

 

[randomkid]

My motherboard is CF compatible. is the bridge all i will need?

Yes. Just install the 2nd card, connect the crossfire bridge (usually comes with the card bundle) then turn on your PC. CCC should detect your card & prompt you if you want to enable crossfire. If it doesn't, just go the CCC menu to enable manually. That's all there is to it.

 

[Sunius]

Crossfire bridge usually comes with CF compatible motherboard, not graphics card.

 

[po1nted]

Crossfire bridge usually comes with CF compatible motherboard, not graphics card.

+1

I haven't seen cards that come with a bridge. Motherboard normally.

 

[Nim Chimpsky]

+1

I haven't seen cards that come with a bridge. Motherboard normally.

Two out of two cards I've gotten came with a bridge.

 

[vrumor]

Both of my 7970s came with bridges and my motherboard.

 

[randomkid]

Two out of two cards I've gotten came with a bridge.

Same here... I have a surplus of crossfire bridges actually...

 

[Earnie]

Same,bridges have always come with both GPU's and mobo's.same on the surplus of bridges.