ASROCK S890FX DELUXE3 -, Quick Installation Manual

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ASRock 890FX Deluxe3 Motherboard
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1. If a customer incorrectly configures their system they will not see the
performance benefits of CrossFireX TM . All three CrossFireX TM components, a
CrossFireX TM Ready graphics card, a CrossFireX TM Ready motherboard and a
CrossFireX TM Edition co-processor graphics card, must be installed correctly to
benefit from the CrossFireX
TM
multi-GPU platform.
2. If you pair a 12-pipe CrossFireX
TM
Edition card with a 16-pipe card, both cards
will operate as 12-pipe cards while in CrossFireX TM mode.
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This motherboard supports CrossFireX
TM
, 3-way CrossFireX
TM
and Quad
CrossFireX
TM
feature. CrossFireX
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, CrossFireX TM enables the highest
possible level of performance and image quality in any 3D application. Currently
CrossFireX TM feature is supported with Windows ® XP with Service Pack 2 / Vista TM
/ 7 OS. 3-way CrossFireX TM and Quad CrossFireX TM feature are supported with
Windows ® Vista TM / 7 OS only. Please check AMD website for ATI TM CrossFireX TM
driver updates.
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Different CrossFireX TM cards may require different methods to enable CrossFireX TM
feature. In below procedures, we use Radeon HD 3870 as the example graphics card.
For other CrossFireX
TM
cards that ATI
TM
has released or will release in the future, please
refer to ATI TM graphics card manuals for detailed installation guide.
Step 1. Insert one Radeon graphics card into PCIE2 slot and the other Radeon
graphics card to PCIE4 slot. Make sure that the cards are properly seated
on the slots.