Can I crossfire on a P5n-e SLI mobo ?

mendesdj · Sep 2, 2007, 05:48 AM

I have a Asus P5n-e SLI motherboard and an ATI X1600 512m PcI-E Video card and Im thinking about getting another one and crossfire them. Can I do that with my Mobo being SLI ready? Thanks in advance

Tipstaff · Sep 2, 2007, 08:32 AM

First up, welcome to the forums!

Unfortunately, no. Being SLI ready means just that, and as such if you want the benefit of using 2 cards you would have to switch over to nVidia.

If you decide to do this, but money is a factor, look at getting a couple of the older 7600GT series cards, or a couple of the newer 8600GT/GTS series of cards.

CDsDontBurn · Sep 2, 2007, 08:48 AM

or you can switch your motherboard to a cross-fire board. however, that would be more work than switching out just your video cards

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PandaZ3 · Sep 2, 2007, 02:41 PM

But less money and you can't fold with Nvidia GPU's

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