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Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: corkey on Tue, 22 February 2011, 12:40:29

Hi All,

I have someone trying to sell me a computer which has ATI Crossfire cards (2 5870s) just wondering what ATI crossfire is and if its any good?

i have looked around but done understand the explanations... if anyone could help that would be great.

thanks

Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: corkey on Tue, 22 February 2011, 13:06:24

thanks for the info, i guess since the cards are already in i cant do much about it, but is there a way to check the loads on the cards when playing a game?

thanks

Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: db_Iodine on Tue, 22 February 2011, 13:12:45

You can install MSI Afterburner (http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/), and set it to log the GPU usage and temperatures, so you can check those out after you've stopped playing. With Crossfire comes some microstuddering, that at least I notice compared to single GPU systems, but sometimes the extra power of a multi GPU system is needed.

Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: corkey on Tue, 22 February 2011, 13:36:45

thanks guys!

Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: kill will on Tue, 22 February 2011, 14:12:37

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50

Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: Arc'xer on Tue, 22 February 2011, 14:38:23

Quote from: corkey;299390

Hi All,

I have someone trying to sell me a computer which has ATI Crossfire cards (2 5870s) just wondering what ATI crossfire is and if its any good?

i have looked around but done understand the explanations... if anyone could help that would be great.

thanks

ATI is dead doesn't exist anymore it's now AMD since AMD bought ATI a while back. Though they marked the 5XXX as the last to use the ATI branding, it's now AMD Graphics.

As for the (Crossfire | CrossfireX), Tri-fire, or Quad-fire; Same with Nvidia SLI, tri-SLI, or quad-SLI. It's just branding names for multi-gpu configurations.

Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: .XL on Tue, 22 February 2011, 19:28:03

Quote from: ripster;299393

Welcome to Geekhack!

Although there are plenty of better Crossfire explanations on the internet I will say it supposedly makes your graphics faster.

And I say supposedly because I have an two 8800GTs and a Intel BadAxe motherboard.  Intel doesn't like Nvidia.  I guess I could dump them in my A8N SLI-deluxe but seems a waste.

Funny you say that, seeing as Intel technically 'owns' Nvidia and now touts them as the perfect pair for an Intel CPU

Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: godly_music on Tue, 22 February 2011, 20:04:19

Any brand of CPU/Mobo will work with any brand of GPU. There's always cases where something doesn't work, but that's not because of this combination.

Actually multi-GPU has its own set of problems so I would steer clear of that. Get a single, better, GPU.

Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: Lethal Squirrel on Tue, 22 February 2011, 20:54:46

Quote from: kill will;299446

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50

I used to freakin love that game xD

Quote from: .XL;299609

Funny you say that, seeing as Intel technically 'owns' Nvidia and now touts them as the perfect pair for an Intel CPU

yeah I was thinking that too. I thought ATI+AMD = better match.  Nvidia+Intel = Better match

Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: ricercar on Wed, 23 February 2011, 00:58:13

Quote from: .XL;299609

Intel technically 'owns' Nvidia

In what alternate universe is this true?

Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: db_Iodine on Wed, 23 February 2011, 02:14:00

Quote from: Lethal Squirrel;299632

yeah I was thinking that too. I thought ATI+AMD = better match.  Nvidia+Intel = Better match

AMD+AMD=Best match then?

Title: ATI Crossfire
Post by: audioave10 on Wed, 23 February 2011, 10:16:47

My BEST match is actually AMD - Nvidia. Go figure.