Will crossfire work on nvidia mobo's ??

[danielackerman]

I have a m2n32-sli motherboard with the nvidia 590 sli chipset. I am considering buying two 4850 vid cards for an xfire setup but am not sure if it will even work. Does anyone know for sure if it will or will not?

I ask because ive seen contradicting info on this subject and cannot find a definite anwer on amd's or nvidias website. some say it will, others say it will not. does anyone out there actually run an xfire setup on an nvidia mobo, shout out if yo do.






(i did ask this question in the vid card section but thought this was more of a mobo question)

 

[error8]

No, it will not work since your mobo is only SLI compatible.

 

[iBPJohn]

Who is saying that it will?

 

[Aeros]

Diamond Vid Cards will do Xfire on an NVIDIA mobo, as long as there are two x16 PCIe.

Though it would technicaly be SLI even though their ATI cards.

Check out xDNA from Diamond.

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: Aeros
Diamond Vid Cards will do Xfire on an NVIDIA mobo, as long as there are two x16 PCIe.

Though it would technicaly be SLI even though their ATI cards.

Check out xDNA from Diamond.

No they won't- that technology never took off commercially.

Crossfire will not work on ANY Nvidia chipset motherboard.

 

[danielackerman]

so the answer is no? that sux

 

[TC91]

Hmm, well if you were willing to try it out, and maybe return one of the cards if it fails, that would be pretty awesome. I have an nvidia board too, and 4850 crossfire looks pretty deadly, but I have never seen anyone try it out, most people just say it doesnt work period. I mean technically it should work, since the intel boards, i dont think have anything special to distinguish themselves, just have 2 or more 16x slots and crossfire works good on them.

 

[Aeros]

Originally posted by: Sylvanas

Originally posted by: Aeros
Diamond Vid Cards will do Xfire on an NVIDIA mobo, as long as there are two x16 PCIe.

Though it would technicaly be SLI even though their ATI cards.

Check out xDNA from Diamond.

No they won't- that technology never took off commercially.

Crossfire will not work on ANY Nvidia chipset motherboard.

From Wikipedia:

The xDNA technology is a technology designed by Diamond Multimedia, allowing motherboards which are not certified for ATI CrossFire (for instance, nForce 500/600 series motherboards designed by NVIDIA) to install multiple ATI Radeon video cards (up to four) as a CrossFire setup and operate in rendering modes which are exclusively made for CrossFire setups. [1] Diamond Multimedia will provide optimized Catalyst Drivers and middleware for the platform in a single package [2].

I have not tried it myself, however, that does not mean it does not work. The only limiting factor to prevent XfireX on NVIDIA chipsets is the driver. There are also 3rd party hacks out there that accomplish the same thing.

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: Aeros

Originally posted by: Sylvanas

Originally posted by: Aeros
Diamond Vid Cards will do Xfire on an NVIDIA mobo, as long as there are two x16 PCIe.

Though it would technicaly be SLI even though their ATI cards.

Check out xDNA from Diamond.

No they won't- that technology never took off commercially.

Crossfire will not work on ANY Nvidia chipset motherboard.

From Wikipedia:

The xDNA technology is a technology designed by Diamond Multimedia, allowing motherboards which are not certified for ATI CrossFire (for instance, nForce 500/600 series motherboards designed by NVIDIA) to install multiple ATI Radeon video cards (up to four) as a CrossFire setup and operate in rendering modes which are exclusively made for CrossFire setups. [1] Diamond Multimedia will provide optimized Catalyst Drivers and middleware for the platform in a single package [2].

I have not tried it myself, however, that does not mean it does not work. The only limiting factor to prevent XfireX on NVIDIA chipsets is the driver. There are also 3rd party hacks out there that accomplish the same thing.

I know Wikipedia has that entry but nowhere on any message boards are users saying 'Yes I have diamond cards and they work on my Nvidia motherboard in Crossfire no problem'. There aren't- the technology never got anywhere, an OEM a while back was rumoured to be making commercially available such a thing but we never heard anything more about that. Diamond are just like any other manufacturer, they sell reference design ATI cards with no magic technology on them to make it work in Crossfire on Nvidia boards.