"Crossfire Y Cable" for "ATI Radeon X1950 XTX" ?

[zezba9000]

I have a pair of working X1950 cards that I want to crossfire. There is a primary/secondary card where primary has special port.
I'm building a D3D9 Crossfire test rig.
I can't find a seller to buy this cable from though. Any suggestions?

Cards look like this

Cable looks like this

 

[Fouquin]

The cables have become notoriously scarce over time. Generally due to the low sales volume of the Crossfire Edition, but also because they look remarkably similar to a regular VHDCI to dual-DVI cable, and get mixed in with the recycling. I've only ever managed to save these cables from scrap cable bins, very rarely do they get sold and when they do they aren't cheap.

 

[zezba9000]

The cables have become notoriously scarce over time. Generally due to the low sales volume of the Crossfire Edition, but also because they look remarkably similar to a regular VHDCI to dual-DVI cable, and get mixed in with the recycling. I've only ever managed to save these cables from scrap cable bins, very rarely do they get sold and when they do they aren't cheap.

Ya I'm hoping to get one for around 100$ if I can even find one.

 

[Outback Bronze]

Did the X800/X850 come with a master card as well for crossfire? I cant remember.

Have always wanted to do this. Good Luck!

 

[68Olds]

Did the X800/X850 come with a master card as well for crossfire? I cant remember.

Have always wanted to do this. Good Luck!

According to the TPU GPU database, yes there was an X800 Crossfire Master card. It didn't seem to require a specific cable though. It did have a cable...

Zezba9000, I guess you should just keep watching ebay. You might be able to get a CF card with cable for $100, then sell the card without the cable.

I've been planning a retro build myself. I hope to start getting everything together & clearing my FX8320 system out of the Sonata case Monday. It should be a fun trip down memory lane.
C2D E6600 (H20) @ 3.6GHz hopefully,
Abit AW9D-Max,
4x1GB G.Skill DDR2-800 (D9 w/ a fan rigged over them),
3x74GB WD Raptors,
X1900CF & X1900XT,
Antec Sonata Case (worst cast on earth)
Windows XP
More blue LEDs than you can possibly imagine.

 

[Fouquin]

Did the X800/X850 come with a master card as well for crossfire? I cant remember.

Have always wanted to do this. Good Luck!

Yes and it's a different cable. X800/X850 Crossfire uses a DMS-59 with dual DVI instead of the dual VHDCI. An even more uncommon beast to track down.

 

[Darthgrey]

As far as I know they can work without cable with 6.11 driver, it's so called software crossfire, actually you don't even need a master card for this, but you will loose some performance. Time to time it's possible to buy cable on ebay for abt. $10, try to search for 6111023000G.

 

[eidairaman1]

Did the X800/X850 come with a master card as well for crossfire? I cant remember.

Have always wanted to do this. Good Luck!

Yes

It was the x1950 Pro I believe changed from the Combiner cable to ribbons

Part number
6110023000G

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6110023000G - ATI - Radeon X1800/ X1900/ X1950 Crossfire Edition Cable | Impact Computers

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[zezba9000]

Zezba9000, I guess you should just keep watching ebay. You might be able to get a CF card with cable for $100, then sell the card without the cable.

These cards go for 250$ (base-card) to 500$ (special-card).
I was crazy lucky to find what I did. Base card I got for Parts-Or-Repair for 30$ which ended up only having a bad power connector. Special card I got in a card lot of someone just getting rid of their old cards that didn't know what they had for about 100$ with all cards.

As far as I know they can work without cable with 6.11 driver, it's so called software crossfire

Yes but like my 3Dfx SLI setup that uses a cable I want this to function like it was designed to as well. I love graphics APIs and it really bothers me how so few people understood how to do mGPU correctly. Even today. Particularly when 90% of gaming laptops have two GPUs. So I like to have some of the old stuff to take a stab at it and do it the right way