ATI cards in sli?

**Archangel** · 07-13-2005, 11:20 AM

wll, i'm buying an Albatron k8SLI mobo. but when i looked on the website. i found this.

2*PCI Express x 16 ( nVIDIA SLi technology support X8+X8 ,No support ATi Radeon X300)

does this mean i can chose between nVidia , and Ati cards with the use of sli?

kof2000 · 07-13-2005, 11:30 AM

ati has their own thing called crossfire or something.

spacedude89 · 07-13-2005, 11:37 AM

SLI = Nvidia

CrossFire = ATI

the arent cross compatable, but the Crossfire motherboards will be coming out soon.

**apj101** · 07-13-2005, 11:47 AM

cross fire should be coming soon, here is a review
http://www.a1-electronics.net/Graphi...ire_June.shtml

**Archangel** · 07-13-2005, 02:30 PM

ok, but why it says, nvidia sli supports x8 + x8? :S
im a bit confuzed about that.

jjsevdt · 07-13-2005, 02:53 PM

it uses two slots with two cards that make one image. The 8x + 8x represent the BUS speeds.

alanuofm · 07-13-2005, 06:19 PM

yeah you can only use a nvidia card with that. i believe only the 6800 and 7800 can be connected via SLI mode.

**apj101** · 07-13-2005, 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alanuofm

yeah you can only use a nvidia card with that. i believe only the 6800 and 7800 can be connected via SLI mode.

and the 6600 series

Hairy_Lee · 07-13-2005, 09:19 PM

doesn't crossfire involve a link outside the system that doesn't require special bios support as it involves hooking the cards up outside the case?

**Praetor** · 07-24-2005, 02:31 PM

Quote:

yeah you can only use a nvidia card with that. i believe only the 6800 and 7800 can be connected via SLI mode.

6600GT, 6800GT, 6800U and 7800GTX as of right now

Quote:

doesn't crossfire involve a link outside the system that doesn't require special bios support as it involves hooking the cards up outside the case?

http://www.ati.com/technology/crossfire/index.html

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