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Operation Guide
Operation Guide
Operation Guide
Operation Guide
Operation Guide
This motherboard supports CrossFire
TM
feature. CrossFire
TM
technology offers the
most advantageous means available of combining multiple high performance
Graphics Processing Units (GPU) in a single PC. Combining a range of different
operating modes with intelligent software design and an innovative interconnect
mechanism, CrossFire
TM
enables the highest possible level of performance and
image quality in any 3D application. Currently CrossFire
TM
feature is only supported
with Windows XP with Service Pack 2; it may be supported with other OS in the
future.
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.
Enjoy the benefit of CrossFire
Enjoy the benefit of CrossFire
Enjoy the benefit of CrossFire
Enjoy the benefit of CrossFire
Enjoy the benefit of CrossFire
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It is recommended to use 500-Watt power supply or greater
to perform the benefit of CrossFire
TM
feature for Radeon
X850XT.
Step 1.
Connect to the system power supply. Please connect a hard disk power
connector to SLI/XFIRE Power connector.
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 if they are software enabled. This applies to cards from ATI or
any of its partners.
Currently, ATI has released Radeon X850XT, X1800XT, X1300, and X1600
CrossFire
TM
cards, which require different methods to enable CrossFire
TM
feature. In the below procedures, we use Radeon X850XT as the example
graphics card. For other CrossFire
TM
cards that ATI has released or will
release in the future, please refer to ATI graphics card manuals for detailed
installation guide.
Cards For AGI Express Slot
Cards For PCI Express Slot
Radeon X1800 Series
Radeon X1800 CrossFire
TM
Edition
Radeon X1600 Series
Radeon X1600 Series
Radeon X1300 Series
Radeon X1300 Series
Radeon X850 Series
Radeon X850 CrossFire
TM
Edition
