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Last year I made my first attempt at building a computer. My motherboard is an ASUS M2N32SLI - Premium Vista Edition. It has 2 x PCIe slots. Back then I had no idea between nVIDIA and ATI chipsets and I put in an ATI x1650 Pro video card, which was on sale. Now I know I should have put in an SLI card because it would have allowed me to put in a second card and double bump the GPU performance. Which brings me to my question: If I put in another ATI X1650 Pro card in my second PCIe slot will it do anything? Since I have 2 PCIe slots can I use Crossfire with a second X1650 card? The card is Crossfire compatible but my motherboard saying nothing about it. Thanks! |
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"Amit Roy" <romroy@comcast.remove_this.net> wrote in message news a2dnear-_V6yj_anZ2dnUVZ_ualnZ2d@comcast.com...> Hi all, > > Last year I made my first attempt at building a computer. My motherboard > is an ASUS M2N32SLI - Premium Vista Edition. It has 2 x PCIe slots. > Back then I had no idea between nVIDIA and ATI chipsets and I put in an > ATI x1650 Pro video card, which was on sale. Now I know I should have put > in an SLI card because it would have allowed me to put in a second card > and double bump the GPU performance. Which brings me to my question: If I > put in another ATI X1650 Pro card in my second PCIe slot will it do > anything? Since I have 2 PCIe slots can I use Crossfire with a second > X1650 card? The card is Crossfire compatible but my motherboard saying > nothing about it. Thanks! > > > either system have to be linked with a small hard or ribbon bridge...........have you done this. |
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Pro card does not have the finger connectors to plug the ribbon to. However, they can be Crossfire enabled if the motherboard is Crossfire certified. "tpow" <wd40@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:E9-dnTyjpqADTz_anZ2dnUVZ8umdnZ2d@bt.com... > > "Amit Roy" <romroy@comcast.remove_this.net> wrote in message > news a2dnear-_V6yj_anZ2dnUVZ_ualnZ2d@comcast.com...>> Hi all, >> >> Last year I made my first attempt at building a computer. My motherboard >> is an ASUS M2N32SLI - Premium Vista Edition. It has 2 x PCIe slots. >> Back then I had no idea between nVIDIA and ATI chipsets and I put in an >> ATI x1650 Pro video card, which was on sale. Now I know I should have >> put in an SLI card because it would have allowed me to put in a second >> card and double bump the GPU performance. Which brings me to my >> question: If I put in another ATI X1650 Pro card in my second PCIe slot >> will it do anything? Since I have 2 PCIe slots can I use Crossfire with a >> second X1650 card? The card is Crossfire compatible but my motherboard >> saying nothing about it. Thanks! >> >> >> > > either system have to be linked with a small hard or ribbon > bridge...........have you done this. > |
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Amit Roy wrote:
> Hi all, > > Last year I made my first attempt at building a computer. My > motherboard is an ASUS M2N32SLI - Premium Vista Edition. It has 2 x > PCIe slots. Back then I had no idea between nVIDIA and ATI chipsets and > I put in an ATI x1650 Pro video card, which was on sale. Now I know I > should have put in an SLI card because it would have allowed me to put > in a second card and double bump the GPU performance. Which brings me > to my question: If I put in another ATI X1650 Pro card in my second PCIe > slot will it do anything? Since I have 2 PCIe slots can I use Crossfire > with a second X1650 card? The card is Crossfire compatible but my > motherboard saying nothing about it. Thanks! > > > No it will not work, the motherboard is an NVIDIA motherboard if you want SLI you will need to purchase 2 new GPUS NVIDIA(graphics cards) to use with that motherboard you have a an ATI graphics card and its is used for crossfire on a crossfire compatible motherboard, How ever you can use 1 single GPU on either NB/SB combination ATI/NVIDIA/Intel/AMD, If you try to enable the 2nd GPU chances are it wont boot or will cause harm to to the motherboard or both GPUs my suggestion would be to buy a new single NVIDIA GPU Such as the 8800 Series (prices are dropping with the new NVIDIA GPUs being released) and when it no longer plays the games at a good FPS then you can add another GPU as a rule of thumb SLI/Crossfire will only gain 20-30% gain in performance and not all games are optimized for Either SLI/Crossfire. |