Crossfire R9 270's On Asus X99 Deluxe Rig Keeps Saying Bridge Is Not Connected

[muskyx1]

X99 Deluxe has latest bios, both R9 270 drivers are up to date and the jumper switch on the board is set 2x crossfire. I'm even using the 2 recommended PCI-E slots for CFX, but Catalyst Control panel keeps telling me the crossfire bridge needs to be connected.

Isn't CFX supposed to be done internally on the board? I mean the board didn't even come with a CFX bridge connector, but it did have an SLI one.

And yes, I cheaped out on the video cards. Waiting for the 970/980's to be released and then gonna sell the 270's on eBay.

 

[96Firebird]

You need a crossfire bridge. The 270s are basically just rebranded 7870s, so they still use the crossfire bridge and not XDMA.

 

[biostud]

CF bridge comes with the video cards, SLI bridge with the motherboard. Some licensing debacle. As Firebird pointed out only the 290(X) works without the bridge.