N00b Question.

[KeepItRed]

This is kind of newb but I've always been wondering if a motherboard is SLI compatible, does that means it's also Crossfire compatible?

 

[Munky]

No, it as far as I know, you'll need a mobo with an Ati chipset to use x-fire, although that could change in the future.

 

[KeepItRed]

Cause I'm looking at a mobo that says Nvidia SLI Ready and I want to throw a Radeon X850 inside (or X900 when it's out). So it should work considering it's PCI-E?

 

[mcmikemc]

Originally posted by: KeepItRed
Cause I'm looking at a mobo that says Nvidia SLI Ready and I want to throw a Radeon X850 inside (or X900 when it's out). So it should work considering it's PCI-E?

Yes it should work as long as you are only using one ATi card.

If you are not going to be using a Nvidia SLi setup I don't see a point in getting a SLi motherboard.

 

[KeepItRed]

I'm using this mobo. Asus A8V-E

It doesn't use a Nvidia chipset like other mobos, it just says SLI Ready, so doesn't that just mean it has 2 PCI-E slots? 😕

 

[mcmikemc]

Unless there is some PCIe 1x SLi setup or Dual GPU ASUS card SLi I don't know about, that MB is not SLi ready.

 

[KeepItRed]

Does anyone have this mobo? The specs are amazing but I dont know about stability.