Your PC ATM

[biffzinker]

I have bridges for crossfire I never used once laying around somewhere, from my 6970, 7950 gpu days lol

I got one with my Sapphire R9 280 Dual-X.

 

[Ruru]

I have bridges for crossfire I never used once laying around somewhere, from my 6970, 7950 gpu days lol

I had the opposite... I had SLI bridges (also 3way) for the whole family but I had to get a CF bridge as a donate from a interwebz buddy.

 

[trickson]

I have bridges for crossfire I never used once laying around somewhere, from my 6970, 7950 gpu days lol

Does anyone here still do this?
I love the 6950's in crossfire they are like amazing fast!

 

[SN2716057]

Changed the PETG tubes on my sig rig to copper, and also swapped the psu to a be quiet! Straight Power 11 750W. I'll replace the hideous cables soon.

Also removed the water block from the GTX 980 and added the Raijintek Morpheus II cooler. It's easier to handle and run but I've lost the 2nd x16 (x8) slot.

 

[Ruru]

I could never have the patience to put hardtubes.

 

[Arrakis9]

I found a really good deal on a diy all in one system from koolance. Slapped the waterblock back on my Vega and started mining with both cards

Need to do some more cable management now!

I have achieved the great chip maker triforce

 

[SN2716057]

I could never have the patience to put hardtubes.

yeah, it requires a lot of planning and sacrificial blood.

The Sliger is stuffed. Difficult to build 5/7

 

[trickson]

My best wire management EVER! IT is AMAZING!

 

[kapone32]

I have bridges for crossfire I never used once laying around somewhere, from my 6970, 7950 gpu days lol

Ever since Polaris you no longer need a bridge for crossfire. As a result there are no AM4 boards that came with crossfire bridges.

 

[trickson]

Ever since Polaris you no longer need a bridge for crossfire. As a result there are no AM4 boards that came with crossfire bridges.

WHAT?
Please explain.

 

[biffzinker]

WHAT?
Please explain.

The Radeon R9 290 and R9 290X graphics cards (released on October 24, 2013 and based on Graphics Core Next 1.1 "Volcanic Islands") as well as GPUs using newer versions of GCN no longer have bridging ports. Instead, they use XDMA to open a direct channel of communication between the multiple GPUs in a system, operating over the same PCI Express bus which is used by AMD Radeon graphics cards.

AMD CrossFire - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[kapone32]

WHAT?
Please explain.

Crossfire is baked into the MB on boards that support 8x8 on AM4, B550,X370,470,570 and 16x16(or more) on X399, TRX40. As a result of that a RX580 will work seamlessly with an RX570 or vice versa. Vega was the same thing and RDNA did not support Crossfire but I saw videos of 2 5500XTs the box on my 6800XT says that it does and I have seen it working but that it it in a nutshell. Having said that crossfire X is something that most AM4 boards with 2 PCie16 slots will have but should be avoided.

 

[trickson]

Crossfire is baked into the MB on boards that support 8x8 on AM4, B550,X370,470,570 and 16x16(or more) on X399, TRX40. As a result of that a RX580 will work seamlessly with an RX570 or vice versa. Vega was the same thing and RDNA did not support Crossfire but I saw videos of 2 5500XTs the box on my 6800XT says that it does and I have seen it working but that it it in a nutshell. Having said that crossfire X is something that most AM4 boards with 2 PCie16 slots will have but should be avoided.

So In theory on my MSI X470 MB I can 3 way crossfire and SLI without the bridge? I can get 2 more RX580's and that is all I need do?
What about with the GTX1650S cards?
Please tell me this is NOT true Because I am going to go nuts as the cards are now over 600 bucks! I paid 180 WTF is going on?

 

[tabascosauz]

12.8L => 5.3L done. I hope this is one of the tiniest builds out there running DDR4-4200

 

[sneekypeet]

So In theory on my MSI X470 MB I can 3 way crossfire and SLI without the bridge? I can get 2 more RX580's and that is all I need do?
What about with the GTX1650S cards?
Please tell me this is NOT true Because I am going to go nuts as the cards are now over 600 bucks! I paid 180 WTF is going on?

IIRC only xfire can be done without a bridge. Sli needs one, then went high bandwidth before being ousted for whatever dual gpu thing they are doing now, which I think still has a bridge.

 

[8BitZ80]

Secondary rig built mostly using components that were in my main rig.

Core i5 4670K quad core @ 4.4GHz, Coolermaster Hyper 212X, 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro 2133MHz DDR3, Asus Z97-E board, Asus R9 270X DirectCUII, Samsung 860 Evo 250GB.

Not sure what the case is, it's some kind of Coolermaster CM690 variant. I got it for free and it included the Aywun A1 Megapower Pro 750W power supply that still works great.

 

[Athlonite]

So In theory on my MSI X470 MB I can 3 way crossfire and SLI without the bridge? I can get 2 more RX580's and that is all I need do?
What about with the GTX1650S cards?
Please tell me this is NOT true Because I am going to go nuts as the cards are now over 600 bucks! I paid 180 WTF is going on?

GTX1650's need a sli bridge but all AMD gpu's after the R9 290/X do not need a CF bridge as it's all done via the PCIe bus now best bet is to look at your GPU does it have a little edge connector along the top edge if yes then you need a CF Bridge cable if no then it's either new enough to do CF via the PCIe bus or not able to be CF'd (usually only the lowest end GPU's)

 

[trickson]

GTX1650's need a sli bridge but all AMD gpu's after the R9 290/X do not need a CF bridge as it's all done via the PCIe bus now best bet is to look at your GPU does it have a little edge connector along the top edge if yes then you need a CF Bridge cable if no then it's either new enough to do CF via the PCIe bus or not able to be CF'd (usually only the lowest end GPU's)

What where do you find that?

Finally after ONE YEAR of waiting the FX BEAST is finally back together again!
My GOD 3 months to get this tinny part!
Crossfire Engaged!!!

Secondary rig built mostly using components that were in my main rig.

Core i5 4670K quad core @ 4.4GHz, Coolermaster Hyper 212X, 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro 2133MHz DDR3, Asus Z97-E board, Asus R9 270X DirectCUII, Samsung 860 Evo 250GB.

Not sure what the case is, it's some kind of Coolermaster CM690 variant. I got it for free and it included the Aywun A1 Megapower Pro 750W power supply that still works great.

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you have nice setup but you need to re-install your HSF.
The fan should be pointing towards the rear of the case to exhaust the heat and air from the HSF. The way you have it is not very efficient and can cause more heat than less.
Just because they managed to put thee name on there product doesn't denote the direction of installation.

Okay unless you install a fan above. That case has the option to install a fan above the HSF and well then you would be faded.
Not to be a dick but why did you install the fan on the back and not the top?

 

[biffzinker]

What where do you find that?

 

[trickson]

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Is there something I am missing here.
Again where is this located on the video card or the box Is my RX580 Crossfire ready?
This i so confusing.

Do I have to use GPU-Z to find out?

 

[biffzinker]

Again where is this located on the video card or the box Is my RX580 Crossfire ready?

The RX 580 doesn't have the edge connector, Crossfire goes over the PCIe slots.

Two RX 580's in Crossfire

Is there something I am missing here.

The R9 290 cards in the presentation slide are the first to drop the edge connectors, and switch to PCIe, all later cards like RX 580.

 

[8BitZ80]

you have nice setup but you need to re-install your HSF.
The fan should be pointing towards the rear of the case to exhaust the heat and air from the HSF. The way you have it is not very efficient and can cause more heat than less.
Just because they managed to put thee name on there product doesn't denote the direction of installation.

Okay unless you install a fan above. That case has the option to install a fan above the HSF and well then you would be faded.
Not to be a dick but why did you install the fan on the back and not the top?

Yeah it needs a top-mounted fan to properly exhaust the hot air, but I stack another PC on top and so it wouldn't really work. The rear-mounted fan does an okay job though, even though it doesn't properly exhaust the pocket of hot air in the top of the case. Might rotate the heatsink when I'm working on it next time.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

IIRC, Nvidia prohibits SLI on GTX Turings.

 

[freeagent]

I do have to say I have always liked those Sapphire AMD cards. Those fat pipes are hawt.

I owned a Sapphire 9600XT and that thing oced like a beast, 125 on the core with ease iirc.

 

[Ruru]

From B450 to B550