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crossfire setup question

JFITZ

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I'm currenty building my computer setup and my dad bought me a gecube 2600xt. i have a Asus m2a-mvp motherboard. I have read that this card needs two 16x lanes. I discovered that the board only supports one card in 16x and crossfire 8x apiece.Newegg states that to run crossfire with two of these cards i need a motherboard that can run two 16x lanes.Is this going to be a problem?Can i still run cards that support two 16x lanes on a board that supports two 8x lanes?
 

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I'm running CF in 8x by 8x right now.

I can't tell the difference in 16x and 8x. Where you will see it, is if you are doing soft crossfire.
 

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soft crossfire?
 
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yes soft >> that means software controlled as apposed to dongle....I believe but I could be wrong.
 

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soft crossfire?

Meaning it uses a software interconnect between the 2 cards versus a bridge. In other words, does your card have a crossfire interconnect on the pcb?
 

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yeah it came with a crossfire bridge connector but i also think that is capable of using the software as well.
 
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