![]() ![]() I can tell you ATI's Hybrid CrossFire X is complicated. And since they can be Hybrid CrossFire X then why not take advantage.įirst thing I found odd was that I wasn't able to find if you hook up the display to the video card or the video port on the motherboard to get the full HDMI surround and DirectX 11 (plus about 20% boost in performance as per the reviews)? EDIT: Found it in motherboard manual, connect to the port on the MOTHERBOARD.Īlso, is there anything (problems) I should be aware of or keep in mind when setting up the system? Wanted to get full surround over HDMI (HD 4290 is only 2 channel over HDMI and DirectX 10.1) and have access to DirectX 11, that's what the video card will add. 2.0, bios FB) motherboard and the Gigabyte HD 5450 1GB (fanless) video card. I"ve already got the video card and want to get it working like ATI advertises. Not looking for people who haven't worked with it and are going to say "Just pay a little extra and get a HD 5670" or something similar or those that say go Intel. There are many good PSUs out there, please do have a look at our many PSU reviews as we have loads of recommended PSUs for you to check out in there.I'm going to be setting up a new HTPC soon and wanted to hear from those that might have worked with ATI Hybrid CrossFire X. That power supply needs to have (in total accumulated) at least 35 Amps available on the +12 volts rails.įor each card that you add, add another 25 Watts as a safety margin. ![]() ![]() You need a 350+ Watt power supply unit if you use it in a high-end system. ![]() The 19w you mention is not the consumption of the video card, it is heat generated to the heatsink, look at this linkĪ second card requires you to add another 25 Watts. On most sites for two video cards the minimum recommended is a psu at 450 or 500w, from there my recommendation, no relation with the mainboard at all What i mentioned was the psu, if it can deliver or not enough watts to make system run stable with the rest of the parts present, remember that you are changing from one old weak video card to two new video cards using probably more power, if your psu is just 350w, you can expect surprises like sudden resets or hard shutdowns without pressing any button I understand that, what i said is that not much users in linux uses multiple video cards in this type of setup so my knowledge here is limited about the process, your hardware is ok and you can proceed with the steps you mention with the hardware you haveĪbout the hardware, yes, if your mainboard says that is crossfire and both slots are pci x16 or x8 you can do it This run good with 2 identical video cards." "My motherboard can accept 2 video cards with crossfire system (for ATI, SLI for Nvidia) : for 1 or multiple screens, 1 or 2 gpu could run together in parallel instead of ggu from the motherboard chipset. The normal one is the amd or the xorg native driver supporting your x1300, normally supporting 2d and 3d, vesa doesn't support any of that but supports other things present on most cards, perfect for this step "Witch is the difference between "normal" driver and vesa driver ?" Maybe both 5450 if passively cooled will be quieter What i find weird is why you choose two 5450 to run in crossfire, that is as expensive but less powerful than a 1 hd 7750 afik and consumes same watts That is from software, from hardware, does your psu support those two cards? you should have a 500w+ psu afik The problem i see is that you mention two video cards, i ignore how pclinux, linux in general handles two video cards, possibly with the driver won't be a problem at all but no idea since not much users here mentions such setupsĪbout the driver version, remember that new drivers, like the 13.1 are tested first and then loaded to repos, so 12.4 available on repo should work, this video card is nothing new and has been supported by the driver for at least 2 years now and amd site says that this feature, crossfire has been supported since version 8.6 but i could be reading wrong Then shut down the system, remove old card, put new card and then with the new card load old vesa drivers(previously installed) and from there install the required drivers for the new card When changing video cards, the recommended process is to install vesa drivers for the video card installed first ![]()
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