JustinMcG67
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alvino said:"The system requires a Crossfire-compliant motherboard with a pair of PCI Express graphics cards, which can be enabled via either hardware or software. Radeon x800s, x850s, x1800s and x1900s come in a 'Crossfire Edition' that has 'master' capability built into the hardware. Radeon x1300s and x1600s have no 'Crossfire Edition' but are enabled via software. Another point to note is that the 'slave' graphics card needs to be from the same family as the 'master', regardless of whether the 'master' is designated by the hardware or by software."
Yeah, so they can't be completely different cards, but they have to be from the same family. So a X850 XT PE CrossFire Edition will work with a X800 Pro, or a X1800 CrossFire will work with a X1800 XL so on so forth...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_(GPU)
Yuppers.
The X800 CF Edition works with just that, the X800 series cards. The X850 CF Edition works just liek that as well, with the X850 cards. Same applied to the X1900 and so on. But the X1600 and X1300 don't need any "CF Edition" card, it's just enabled via a Catalyst driver. Which is really cool if you don't want to blow the extra $250 to get a "CrossFire Edition" card.
The X1600 is definetly the way to go if you want multi-GPU technology without the hassle of having to get a master card and then a slave card, when you can buy two cards in the same series and have them work after installing a Catalyst driver. Plus you don't have to worry about losing any special DMS cables. To me, the X1600 is a Godsend. It has everything that I want in a video card, and then adds even more. I mean, 512MB of memory, multi-GPU support without the hassle of having to buy a more expensive and less-performing Master card. I mean, this thign is just incredible! Plus!!! It has integrated CF support, making it much better to have by ten-fold, plus it's relativly cheap considering it's competitors cost significantly more money!