Radeon HD 6850 crossfire with x1600 pro

[ruibo]

I'm looking to build a new system and was thinking of picking up this deal from microcenter for the i5 2500k with http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0375352 for $220.

I have a very old x1600 pro, would it be able to utilize the crossfire technology with a hd 6850 on that mobo or would I be better of running a single card like geforce gtx 560 ti?

 

[mindwreck]

Can't crossfire them.

 

[HendrixFan]

Even if you could somehow crossfire them, you wouldn't want to. In theory (if it was possible to link the two), the way crossfire works it wouldn't nudge up the performance slightly by adding a x1600, it would drag down the 6850.

 

[toyota]

Even if you could somehow crossfire them, you wouldn't want to. In theory (if it was possible to link the two), the way crossfire works it wouldn't nudge up the performance slightly by adding a x1600, it would drag down the 6850.

thats not true. cards that are allowed to crossfire should never bring down performance. you can add a 5750 to a 5770 and get performance right in between 5770 crossfire and 5750 crossfire.