Does a Crossfire Video Card Work on a mothboard that's has an Nvidia Northbridge

al3x69 · 07-02-2007, 04:39 AM

I was just wondering if a Crossfire Video Card Work on a motherboard that's has an Nvidia Northbridge or does it have to be a ATI Crossfire Northbridge? . This might help me purchase a new cheap computer.

RHochstenbach · 07-02-2007, 10:47 AM

If you want to use the crossfile capabilities of your graphics card, then your motherboard must support crossfile as well.

Big B · 07-02-2007, 12:16 PM

To elaborate the above post:

You can use ATi (regardless of Crossfire capabilities) or nVidia (regardless of SLI capabilities) on nVidia or ATi platforms without issue. If you want to use Crossfire or SLI, then limits kick in:

Crossfire: ATi or Intel chipsets
SLI: nVidia chipsets, ULi chipsets (unofficially)

To further dismiss any rumors and such, it is not a hardware limitation, but a driver one. nVidia and ATi have limited, via drivers, what platforms their multi-GPU technologies can be implemented. There's a few drivers floating around that can do that, including hacked ones, but I don't have any links.

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al3x69 Geek Trainee Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1 Status: Offline	Does a Crossfire Video Card Work on a mothboard that's has an Nvidia Northbridge I was just wondering if a Crossfire Video Card Work on a motherboard that's has an Nvidia Northbridge or does it have to be a ATI Crossfire Northbridge? . This might help me purchase a new cheap computer.

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Big B HWF Godfather Join Date: Dec 2001 Age: 28 Male Posts: 9,636 Times Helpful: 585 My Mood: Devilish Status: Offline My Computer	To elaborate the above post: You can use ATi (regardless of Crossfire capabilities) or nVidia (regardless of SLI capabilities) on nVidia or ATi platforms without issue. If you want to use Crossfire or SLI, then limits kick in: Crossfire: ATi or Intel chipsets SLI: nVidia chipsets, ULi chipsets (unofficially) To further dismiss any rumors and such, it is not a hardware limitation, but a driver one. nVidia and ATi have limited, via drivers, what platforms their multi-GPU technologies can be implemented. There's a few drivers floating around that can do that, including hacked ones, but I don't have any links. __________________ Hardware Forums\|HWF Rules\|My DVD's\|PSU FAQ\|HWF Folding Team\|2CPU

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