longer ati crossfire bridge?

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BerniniCaCO3

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Hi!

I have two ati radeon 48xx video cards.
I had them connected by a crossfire bridge.

The fan in one of them went, and I replaced it with an aftermarket.
Now it overheats.
The reason is thus: the original fan was a squirrel cage, which excels at drawing high pressures. The replacement fan is a wider diameter impeller, which has its strengths--quieter, more efficient-- but does not play well when positioned 3/8" away from the 2nd video card right next to it! It can't draw pressures when its airflow is so blocked.

I moved the video cards apart and even the fan-replacement card will work better on its own, than it did hooked up, by virtue of a much large airgap that its fan can keep it cool with.

However, now my video cards have 1 sli slot in between them and my old crossfire bridge will not stretch.
I looked and did not find a longer one, not for ATI anyway. Found 5" bridges for asus. Are they the same format? If not, can you point me to where I'll find a longer cross fire bridge for ATI cards? Or an adapter to hook 2 bridges together? If not, I may have to just sell the other card for whatever I can get :-(


thanks!
-Bernard
 
As far as I know, you should be able to use pretty much any Crossfire bridge cable. The brand shouldn't matter as long as it is a Crossfire bridge cable, so ASUS' cable should work.
 
As far as I know CrossFire bridges come in 73mm and 100mm lengths, (end to end), which fit interconnects spaced 60mm and 87mm center to center respectively. A 5" bridge, (if measured end to end), would fit interconnects about 114mm apart. I've never seen a 5" bridge though. Measure connector to connector and buy accordingly. Ebay has hundreds listed. As stated, brand doesn't matter.
 
cool!
There's a 4-3/4" asus bridge, I'll double check, but that seems like it ought to span across the sli space!

I'm playing civ5, and though it doesn't seem like it would be a graphics-intensive program, it surely must be; definitely ran better on the 2 of them.
Anyone know btw if it's a memory intensive program? Am I going to be happier with more than 6gb ram?
 
BerniniCaCO3 said:
cool!
There's a 4-3/4" asus bridge, I'll double check, but that seems like it ought to span across the sli space!

I'm playing civ5, and though it doesn't seem like it would be a graphics-intensive program, it surely must be; definitely ran better on the 2 of them.
Anyone know btw if it's a memory intensive program? Am I going to be happier with more than 6gb ram?
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More of a CPU intensive game. Which CPU do you have?
 
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