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4/22/12 at 8:08am
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I'm not familiar with graphic cards, so I'm new to this SLI/CrossFire thing.
My mobo (sig rig) is an ECS X58B-A2, which supports CrossFire X.
Someone I know is giving me his used GTS250, and I'm going to pick it up about 2 weeks later, but I wanted to know if a CrossFire setup is possible with my existing 9800GT and the will-be-mine GTS250.

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4/22/12 at 8:12am
Ati is crossfire
Nvidia is Sli

And for the most part they have to be the same card, ati you can cross some diffrent cards, but not too many.
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4/22/12 at 8:14am
The 9800 is a g92 and the 250 is a fermi
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4/22/12 at 8:14am
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Originally Posted by KEITHRH12 View Post

Ati is crossfire
Nvidia is Sli
And for the most part they have to be the same card, ati you can cross some diffrent cards, but not too many.

that's why I asked. i know that crossfire is ati stuff, but I've seen nvidia cards crossed on crossfire boards. I was wondering if that is possible in my case.
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4/22/12 at 8:14am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KEITHRH12 View Post

The 9800 is a g92 and the 250 is a fermi

so, no go?
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4/22/12 at 8:16am
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The 9800 is a g92 and the 250 is a fermi

I thought the 250 was G92 also. am i wrong?
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4/22/12 at 8:16am
Nope not gonna happen. You could however dedicate one card to physx to lighten the load on the other card but not to many games use physx.
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4/22/12 at 8:19am
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Nope not gonna happen. You could however dedicate one card to physx to lighten the load on the other card but not to many games use physx.

frown.gif so for physx, I pop in my 250, go to nvidia control panel on windows, then select my 9800gt as the physx card?
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4/22/12 at 8:20am
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The 9800 is a g92 and the 250 is a fermi

lolwut? No, they're both G92, but you can't SLI them. SLI has to have identical cards. The GTS250 is basically a rebadged 9800gtx+.

Fermi is GTX400 and 500 series.
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4/22/12 at 8:21am
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I thought the 250 was G92 also. am i wrong?

the 2 series are fermi's

yeah the best you could do is use one for gfx and one for phyx.

If you are going to game, I would sell both and buy a better card.
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