running 2 video cards

[QueBert]

My MB (MSI P35 Platinum) supports Crossfire, but it's 16x/4x so I'm assuming adding a 2nd card won't really do sh!t right? Also, I'm reading that just because my board doesn't technically support SLI, that doesn't mean it's not possible to do it. I would like to get the best performance I can out of my system without spending too much money. here's my specs

e6550 @ 3.01
MSI P35 Neo Platinum
2 gigs crucial ballastics
500gb seagate 7200.10
eVGA 8600GS

I OC'ed the video card (not much) seems to be running fine, I just bought it so I'm able to still return it for a few weeks. Is there a chance in hell I could get Nvidia card's running SLI without super rigging my system? Again I go back to will any type of SLI/Crossfire even be worth two shits with the 2nd pci-e slot being only 4x.

 

[aka1nas]

The P35 cannot do SLI, you currently need an actual SLI-supporting Nvidia chipset. You can do Crossfire, though I imagine you would take a hit from the 4x bandwidth on anything you would want to Crossfire.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
The P35 cannot do SLI, you currently need an actual SLI-supporting Nvidia chipset. You can do Crossfire, though I imagine you would take a hit from the 4x bandwidth on anything you would want to Crossfire.

the hit is minor ... on any AMD card 😛

 

[PingSpike]

The new 8 series cards have been the only one's I've seen benchmarks showing a signifigant performance hit at 4x. Other cards (I haven't seen any AMD 2x00 cards benchmarks) seem to take only a small hit by going 4x.