Intel BOXD955XBKLKR & ATI

Hello,

Does anyone know if this MB supports ATI's Crossfire platform? I know it does NOT support SLI; but I think it may support this one.

thx,
Tom

 

Here's the motherboard's website:
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d955xbk/

Matt

 

Thanks Matt,

Yup, sorry about that, should've ran some searches before posting dumb Q's.

One thing I did notice though, the 955x series says it supports 16X in slot one and 4X in slot 2. While the 975x series says is supporst 16X and 8X respectively.

What I can't seem to find out is "What does the Radeon Xpress 200 support? 16x/4x? 16x/8x? 16x/16x? ". I've been looking but cant' seem to pin that one down.

Of course the reality I think is that the whole concept of twin GPUs is probably utterly ridiculous for about 99% of the computer using population. Especially given that a single next-gen gpu from next year will probably clean the clocks of any twin Nvidia/ATI card combos form today.

But, hey, just want to hedge my bets Well, that and that I have a tendency to over-think things....

Tom

 

It was interesting for me too. What goes where and how.

I think that you will need to get (a) card/s labelled "Crossfire ":
http://www.ati.com/products/radeonxpress200crossfire/

Only going by what I read. 16x/4x are the base models (one card will run at 16x, the other at 4x). 16x/8x is the premium model. I did not see 16x/16x, that may be future technology.

Interesting to see (will it hold out?). Two cards (or three or more?) may end up being the gamers choice to run high level graphics.

Matt