AMD/ATI support confirms that Crossfire should work on Nforce4 SLI chipsets

[aka1nas]

This is great news for those of us with SLI boards. I don't know if I'm willing to shell out for an X1900 Mastercard at this point in time but at least it opens up possibillities for the future.

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Reformatted ATI/AMD support Transcript:

11/23/2006 11:32 AM EDT
CSR: In order to run crossfire on your system. You will need a crossfire edition card. The cross fire edition card will be your master card and the crossfire ready will be in your slave slot on the motherboard. For the radeon x1950 crossfire edition card, you will be able to install a crossfire ready 1900 card as the setup. However, runing in this setup will downgrade the x1950 crossfire to a radeon x1900 series.

1/3/2007 5:19 PM EDT
Me: Thank you for your reply. Could you confirm for me that I will be able to run Crossfire with an X1900 Mastercard, my current X1900XT, and my DFI SLI-DR Expert Nforce4 SLI motherboard?

1/9/2007 12:48 PM EDT
CSR: You should be fine as long as you have a x1900 crossfire edition as your master card and another x1900 in the system. Your motherboard should also be crossfire ready or have 2 pcie slots.

1/9/2007 12:50 PM EDT
Me: Will a motherboard with an Nforce 4 SLI chipset satisfy the above requirements?

1/11/2007 11:11 AM EDT
CSR: Yes, as long as the motherboard has 2 pcie slots, you should be fine. You should also make sure that your powersupply is at least a 550w with 6 pin connectors for the video cards. Remember that these cards require a direct connection to the power supply.

 

[zephyrprime]

Hmmm...I'm not sure I buy it. The csr could be wrong.

 

[aka1nas]

Quite possibly. I tried to be as explicit as possible. It's a bit too late in the product curve for X1900 Crossfire to make much sense now anyway.

 

[Eurasianman]

I wouldn't buy it unless there was money back guaranteed =P

 

[theprodigalrebel]

The CSR is not doing a very good job.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[ebeattie]

Is it possible, you had a bot conversing with you? Either that or ATI needs to shoot their CSR trainers!

 

[TanisHalfElven]

customer service knows nothing. try again and this time you'll hear that you don't even need 2xPCI-E slots. 1 will be enough

 

[BFG10K]

I'm having a hard time believing this.

 

[aka1nas]

I'm not willing to drop $300+ to test the theory either

 

[josh6079]

Ask him with what drivers are you to do this with.

 

[aka1nas]

I added the question to the case. Any other details anyone wants me to add? Maybe if I bug them enough they will escalate my case

 

[Captante]

Sounds like a crock of sh1t to me.

 

[BFG10K]

Perhaps the CSR thinks hardware has nothing to do with software.

 

[Fenixgoon]

methinks the CSR is full of it

 

[Sureshot324]

At this point I'd rather sell my card and get a dx10 card then go crossfire/sli.

 

[tuteja1986]

I would test it but i sold my 2x x1900XTX and bought 2x 8800GTX.

 

[BlizzardOne]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Perhaps the CSR thinks hardware has nothing to do with software.

:laugh:

 

[Cookie Monster]

So this means that SLi works on crossfire motherboards?

Wait what are the crossfire requirements? just a motherboard with 2 PCI-e x16 slots? (master/slave also)

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
So this means that SLi works on crossfire motherboards?

Wait what are the crossfire requirements? just a motherboard with 2 PCI-e x16 slots? (master/slave also)

Well, if the CSR is accurate it's Crossfire that would work on SLI boards. Nvidia's drivers definately do lockout SLI based on chipset.

 

[Sureshot324]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986
I would test it but i sold my 2x x1900XTX and bought 2x 8800GTX.

lol, so which game was it that your 2 x1900xtx's couldn't handle?

 

[mamisano]

Originally posted by: Sureshot324

Originally posted by: tuteja1986
I would test it but i sold my 2x x1900XTX and bought 2x 8800GTX.

lol, so which game was it that your 2 x1900xtx's couldn't handle?

It's called Ego, don't care for it myself

 

[josh6079]

Any response as to which drivers one would need to do this?

 

[aka1nas]

It's been taking a few days in between responses. I'll keep this thread updated.

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Perhaps the CSR thinks hardware has nothing to do with software.

Hehehe, I never get tired of hearing that.