CrossFire
™
Overview 101
CHAPTER 7:
Welcome to CrossFire
™
ATI CrossFire
™
is the ultimate multi-GPU performance gaming platform,
using ATI CrossFire
™
ready motherboards and ATI graphics cards.
CrossFire
™
Overview
This section provides an overview of the main features and configurations
for CrossFire
™
. These topics will be covered in more detail in other
chapters of this manual.
Allowable CrossFire
™
System Components
The basic requirements of a CrossFire
™
system are a CrossFire
™
certified
motherboard with two PCI Express
®
x16 slots, a CrossFire
™
Edition
graphics card, and a compatible CrossFire
™
Compatible graphics card.
A CrossFire
™
Edition graphics card works with all members of the same
brand-family. Thus a Radeon
®
X1650 PRO CrossFire
™
Edition graphics
card can be used with any Radeon X1650 product.
For an up-to-date listing of CrossFire
™
certified motherboards, see:
ati.com/crossfire