Crossfire and A8N-SLI Premium motherboard

[Guest]

Hello,

I have an Asus A8N-SLI Premium still in its box and want to buy a video card
for it. I have been looking at Radeon X1600 series of cards with the view
of getting one for the time being and another if I wish to upgrade the
graphics using 'CrossFire'. At ATI's web site it states the following
requirements for CrossFire hardware:

"Only three components: a CrossFire Ready motherboard ideally based on the
ATI Radeon® Xpress 200 chipset, a compatible Radeon graphics card, and a
related Radeon CrossFire Edition co-processor board"

I don't think the motherboard has an ATI Radeon Xpree 200 chipset. Would my
motherboard still be able to work with the X1600?

Thanks,
Shane

 

[J. Clarke]

Hello,

I have an Asus A8N-SLI Premium still in its box and want to buy a video
card
for it. I have been looking at Radeon X1600 series of cards with the view
of getting one for the time being and another if I wish to upgrade the
graphics using 'CrossFire'. At ATI's web site it states the following
requirements for CrossFire hardware:

"Only three components: a CrossFire Ready motherboard ideally based on the
ATI Radeon® Xpress 200 chipset, a compatible Radeon graphics card, and a
related Radeon CrossFire Edition co-processor board"

I don't think the motherboard has an ATI Radeon Xpree 200 chipset. Would
my motherboard still be able to work with the X1600?

Is it labelled "crossfire-ready" anywhere? SLI is nvidia technology,
Crossfire is ATI technology, ATI and nvidia are arch-rivals in the video
market, so would you really _expect_ crossfire to work on an nvidia-based
motherboard?

 

[peter]

The X1600 card will work all by itself..........but not 2 together in
"crossfire" mode on that board.
peterk

 

[RzR]

nospam wrote:




Is it labelled "crossfire-ready" anywhere? SLI is nvidia technology,
Crossfire is ATI technology, ATI and nvidia are arch-rivals in the video
market, so would you really _expect_ crossfire to work on an nvidia-based
motherboard?

even so...crossfire is designed to work independently of the chipset
unlike nvidias sli

 

[J. Clarke]

even so...crossfire is designed to work independently of the chipset
unlike nvidias sli

Uh, nvidia's SLI was first demonstrated on a board with an Intel chipset--it
was also _designed_ to require only that the board have two PCI Express
slots. Didn't work out that way. The only two chipsets that ATI lists as
being supported are their own Radeon Xpress 200 Crossfire Edition and the
Intel 955X.