wanting to build a PC - looking for advice

[Danny1107]

they are great cards mate, but the ATI will blow that away

 

plus the motherboard youve been looking at is Crossfire ready, which means you could add another ATi in the future

 

and whats crossfire? and does it only work with the ATI cards?

[Simonez]

In basic terms, it means Dual Graphics cards.

 

the 2 major manufacturers of cards Ati and Nvidia do this on a handful of boards,

 

Nvidia is called SLI

ATi is called Crossfire

 

it just means you can combine 2 cards on the same motherboard to put up your FPS on games etc

 

motherboard descriptions will tell you what the motherboard supports, and the motherboard you picked supports Crossfire

[Simonez]

doh double post! Edited December 4, 2009 by Simonez

[Danny1107]

do you have to link the graphics cards at all? or does it work through the motherboard

[Simonez]

with the motherboard, you should get a Crossfire Link, which just pushes on to the lil slots on the graphics cards

 

if not there cheap as chips, but im pretty sure you get it with the motherboard bundle.

 

quick pic of the links:

 

http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews...d_crossfire.jpg

 

Edited December 4, 2009 by Simonez

[Danny1107]

I think I'll go for the ATI card then

 

I'll start buying bits as soon as I can