New AMD board with Hybrid Crossfire - questions

[hoorah]

So I may be upgrading my motherboard and I currently have an ATI 4850 video card. I've been reading about the new AMD motherboards with the hybrid crossfire that allow you to crossfire a discrete GPU with the integrated GPU on the motherboard.

I am having trouble finding out if I can do this with my 4850. The only reason I would want to do this is for the power savings - to be able to use the integrated GPU most of the time except when playing games would be a big reduction in power use for my desktop. All of the information I can find is either old (Q4 of 2008) or relatively new (and says to use a DX11 card like the 5000 series). Sorry, I don't have the links for those two articles offhand.

Anyway - just wondering if anyone knows if its possible. Most people are asking if there is any performance benefit of pairing with a high power card, and it seems the answer is no, which is fine. I still haven't found an answer to it being possible for power savings.

Thanks guys!

 

[hoorah]

Edit - here is one of the links. This is for a gigabyte 890 Board.

ATI Hybrid Graphics Technology support
Experience the advanced ATI Hybrid Graphics Technology, which is including ATI Hybrid CrossFireX™, ATI SurroundView™, and ATI PowerPlay™ with Windows 7, Vista and XP supported. With combination of onboard GPU and a single VGA card’s GPU*, ATI Hybrid CrossFireX™ can bring remarkable display performance on AMD platform, and also further to increase your overall system value. ATI SurroundView™ allows 4 or more monitors support at once and also ATI PowerPlay™ enables power saving profiles to help reduce power consumption and further resulting in reduced system temperatures and fan noise.

* Please use ATI Hybrid CrossFireX certified DX11 VGA card (i.e., ATI Radeon HD 5450, etc.).

 

[Sylvanas]

AFAIK Hybrid Crossfire only works in conjunction with a low end discrete card (e.g. 5450, 4350).