Add the following ingredients: x2 ATI gfx cards (I think crossfire even works with different cards, like a x1800 and a x1900 would work together) Crossfire motherboard PSU capable of powering everything
[QUOTE="BeavermanA"]Add the following ingredients: x2 ATI gfx cards (I think crossfire even works with different cards, like a x1800 and a x1900 would work together) Crossfire motherboard PSU capable of powering everything Not quite... For most ATI cards, you need one Crossfire edition ATI card and one regular ATI cardl; both with same chipset... so it's like this: X1950 Crossfire Edition + X1950 XTX However, for cards with native Crossfire support (like the X1950 Pro) you can simply purchase two of those... so it's like this: X1950 Pro + X1950 Pro
Crossfire is pretty weird at this point - it works on certain Intel chipsets, not just ATI ones, although the PCI-e bandwidth is usually crippled (x8 and x4 or something like that). In order to run most ATI cards except the X1950Pro and X1950GT, you need a Crossfire Master card, which is generally more expensive than the standard version. Except with the latest ATI chipset (Xpress 3200), which allows two of any ATI cards of the same model to be used together in Crossfire - no more Master cards. Older cards like the X1300 also do not have a master Crossfire card, and in order to get a Crossfire setup with one of those, you need to do it via software. All-in-all, it's a pretty complicated setup at this point. ATI has done a very poor job of making dual graphics-card setups easy like Nvidia has.
The x3200 sucks though... Just remember that the r600 will have native Crossfire support, meaning no more Master/slave cards. Slap two of 'em in and your ready to go.
Haha wow, no wonder Crossfire owned 1% of the dual gpu solution market in the Steam questionnaire. BeavermanA
When you look at the way they advertised it, you would think it is automatically a winner... being able to play every game, not just the one thbat's optimized for SLI... but yeah, compatibility and stability issue creeps out. This is like Radeon 8500 all over again.
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