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Hi guys,
Quick question. I have been doing a bit of research about crossfire as I have never actually crossfire'd anything in my life yet! so I have a mate with two 9600GT's both identical cards, and a motherboard with a pci-e x16 slot and a pci-e x4 slot. I have read that sometimes it is better to run one card in the x16 slot rather than one card in a x16 and one in a x4 because both downgrade to the x4 bandwidth performance. Running a res of 1440x900, my mate plays things like rust, diablo 3, dayz etc.
What do you guys think? Should I be running one 9600GT in the x16 pci-e slot, or should I run two cards, one in the x16 and one in the x4..?
I read this thread http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/26.html and found it helpful, it said that the drop in performance wasn't too bad with the x4, BUT some programs would be much slower with the slower bandwidth even though there are two cards..
Thoughts/suggestions?
Quick question. I have been doing a bit of research about crossfire as I have never actually crossfire'd anything in my life yet! so I have a mate with two 9600GT's both identical cards, and a motherboard with a pci-e x16 slot and a pci-e x4 slot. I have read that sometimes it is better to run one card in the x16 slot rather than one card in a x16 and one in a x4 because both downgrade to the x4 bandwidth performance. Running a res of 1440x900, my mate plays things like rust, diablo 3, dayz etc.
What do you guys think? Should I be running one 9600GT in the x16 pci-e slot, or should I run two cards, one in the x16 and one in the x4..?
I read this thread http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/26.html and found it helpful, it said that the drop in performance wasn't too bad with the x4, BUT some programs would be much slower with the slower bandwidth even though there are two cards..
Thoughts/suggestions?