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1. If a customer incorrectly configures their system they will not see the
performance benefits of CrossFire
TM
. All three CrossFire
TM
components, a
CrossFire
TM
Ready graphics card, a CrossFire
TM
Ready motherboard and a
CrossFire
TM
Edition co-processor graphics card, must be installed correctly to
benefit from the CrossFire
TM
multi-GPU platform.
2. If you pair a 12-pipe CrossFire
TM
Edition card with a 16-pipe card, both cards will
operate as 12-pipe cards while in CrossFire
TM
mode.
What graphics cards work with CrossFire
TM
?
A complete CrossFire
TM
system requires a CrossFire
TM
Ready motherboard, a
CrossFire
TM
Edition graphics card and a compatible standard Radeon (CrossFire
TM
Ready) graphics card from the same series, or two CrossFire
TM
Ready cards. This
applies to cards from ATI
TM
or any of its partners. Please refer to below table for
CrossFire
TM
VGA card support list according to the OS you install.
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Different CrossFire
TM
cards may require different methods to enable CrossFire
TM
feature. In below procedures, we use Radeon 2600XT as the example graphics
card. For other CrossFire
TM
cards that ATI
TM
has released or will release in the
future, please refer to ATI
TM
graphics card manuals for detailed installation guide.
It is recommended to use 500-Watt power supply or greater
to perform the benefit of CrossFire
TM
feature.
Step 1. Connect to the system power supply. Please connect a hard disk power
connector to SLI/XFIRE Power connector on this motherboard.
For Windows
®
XP
Vendor Chipset Model Driver
ATI Radeon HD2900XT MSI RX2900XT-VT2D512E Catalyst 7.11
Radeon HD 2600XT Gigabyte GV-RX26T256HP-B Catalyst 7.9
Radeon HD 2600PRO MSI RX2600PRO-T2D256EZ Catalyst 7.9
Radeon X1950XTX GeCube RX1950XTX Catalyst 7.11
Radeon X1950PRO Gecube Radeon X1950Pro 256MB Catalyst 7.11
For Windows
®
Vista
Vendor Chipset Model Driver
ATI Radeon HD2900XT MSI RX2900XT-VT2D512E Catalyst 7.11
Radeon HD 2600XT Gigabyte GV-RX26T256HP-B Catalyst 7.9
Radeon HD 2600PRO MSI RX2600PRO-T2D256EZ Catalyst 7.9
Radeon X1950XTX GeCube RX1950XTX Catalyst 7.11
Radeon X1950PRO Gecube Radeon X1950Pro 256MB Catalyst 7.11
Radeon X1600PRO MSI RX1600PRO-TD256E Catalyst 7.3
Radeon X1300 PRO MSI RX1300PRO-TD256E Catalyst 7.3
