would Crossfire be worth it?

[=VG= Murderface0151]

Hey dudes and possibly dudettes

Question aimed directly at Semlers face :-) - number 1, would crossfire between a HD4850 and a HD6850 work? and number 2, if it would, would there be any point or any decent gains? (number 3 :P) would there be any issues seeing as though they're two complete different generations of card?

i can't bring myself to get rid of the card I've had for over 2 years and that's seen me through so much, so i guess i'd like to include it in a new build i'm thinking of - hook the little bitch up to a HD6850 and watch it fry perhaps hahaha

any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Murder

[=VG= Ingo]

from what i know crossfire works whit the same series only like you can crossfire a hd6970 whit a hd6950. and a quote from wikipedia : However GPU's not in the same hundred series cannot be crossfired successfully. (e.g. a 5770 cannot run with a 5870)

[=VG= poffadder]

Ingo is correct, They have to have the same GPU. The only difference can be the amount of stream processors and the frequencies of the GPU core and the memory.

Also you are talking about putting a DX 10 card with a DX 11 card, that would limit you to DX 10.

[=VG= Murderface0151]

damn : (

looks like im gonna haveto de-commission my beautiful 4850 *cries*

[Terremer]

it's going to be a sad day when i have to retire my 4890, i feel you on that one

[=VG= Murderface0151]

i think im going to frame my 4850, and preserve its memory for the ages to come. then in 20 years i can compare technologies and hopefully be mildly impressed by the new stuff

[=VG= poffadder]

Well I just took out my 4870 and upgraded to a 560 ti. It's really worth the upgrade.

I'm keeping my 4870 though, was indeed a good card.

[=VG= Murderface0151]

let's send our 48xx's to Poff so he can make us a 3 -way crossfire supercomputer.

[=VG= poffadder]

A super GPU that would be crushed by a single 6990. heh.

[=VG= Murderface0151]

the mexicans might want it

[=VG= SavageCDN (Inactive Duty)]

I still have my Rockwell 3Dfx 16MB graphics addon card (2nd card you linked into your main (4MB Trident!!) video card... it ain't worth shit but it's fun to point and laugh at it... lol

[=VG= poffadder]

Haha 143 MHz! Awesome!

[=VG= SavageCDN (Inactive Duty)]

Yeah I think my watch has a faster GPU...lol

[=VG= SemlerPDX]

Murderface0151 LAN_WROTE ...

i think im going to frame my 4850, and preserve its memory for the ages to come. then in 20 years i can compare technologies and hopefully be mildly impressed by the new stuff

I am more than mildly impressed with the differences from my "Wall of Ages". That floppy disk could only ever hold something like 1500-3000kB, and today I have a MicroSD chip I bought for my cell phone that is about the size of the fingernail on my little finger, about as thick, and holds 16GB!! (in the pic also: MSI M950 Mainboard and nVidia 370XT 256MB PCI Video Card)

[Terremer]

that looks like one of the huge ass floppies too..i barely even remember those! The regular smaller size one i have some memories of...good stuff

[=VG= Murderface0151]

roll that floppie up and smoke it!