I’m looking to upgrade and or replace my video card to a crossfire setup and wondering if that’s possible with my stock setup?
-HP Elite 210f (HP Pavilion Elite HPE-210f Desktop PC Product Specifications HP Pavilion Elite HPE-210f Desktop PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English))
Thanks for your help!
According to the link you gave, the motherboard is running with a 785G chipset which has the ability to run in a hybrid crossfire mode, using the integrated video along with a PCI express card. However, it seems that it is only compatible with a few cards. The first few lines of this article AMD’s 785G Chipset - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News say that the chipset can only support HD3450/HD3470 cards in crossfire due to the number of stream processors being 40 instead of 80 that the newer cards have. I checked a couple other websites and they have said similar things. You might be better off going for a higher end video card running on its own than doing the hybrid crossfire on the board, but it all depends on your budget and the kind of performance you are looking for. I found running one 3870 was better than running 2 1600xt’s in crossfire mode myself, and now that card is outdated by all the new ones that are out today. This shows a compatibility chart for the cross fire setups, it doesnt show the 785G specifically but does show the 780 and 790G chipsets. http://sites.amd.com/PublishingImages/Public/Graphic_ChartsDiagrams/HighResolutionJPEG/CF_combo_chart.jpg
