WTB CrossFire? Bridge Interconnect

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#19827 3-Mar-2008 05:07

if anyone here has one lying around the house gathering dust i'd be willing to by it

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#114364 3-Mar-2008 17:38

Is that the bit of hardware that joins two ati crossfire gfx cards together?

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#114419 3-Mar-2008 20:42

Yes Hell that would be correct it's the small flat semi ridgid cable with two small connectors at each end

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#114496 4-Mar-2008 00:49

It sounds like you have moding plans. Do you want to share what they are?

Because you would have one it you brought a crossfire supported gfx card or motherboard.

My one still feels wanted, until I have two.

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#114498 4-Mar-2008 01:47

Well no plans for Modding as it were just one of the cards is new A Gecube Radeon HD2600XT and because said company are cheap ******** they don't provide one in the box now the other one is second hand an Asus Radeon HD2600XT and we all know asus are a little more expensive than most and for good reason they give you lots in the box namely one crossfire bridge interconnect now my problem starts here only one bridge connector means no 16x crossfire only 8x so now i'm on the hunt for one more but its a very stealthy quarry

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#114499 4-Mar-2008 02:01

so you need two?

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#114500 4-Mar-2008 02:10

No i need one as i already have one which came with the Asus card but there are two connection tabs on both cards by using only one connector it becomes PCI-e 8x crossfire so i need one more to make it run in PCI-e 16X crossfire mode here i'll explain better

the interconnects provide one 16 lane bus path which equate to 8 lanes transmit and 8 lanes receive

so by using two interconnectors you get a full 16 lane bus going both ways 16 lanes transmit and 16 lanes receive

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#114501 4-Mar-2008 02:16

So I would need two too. :( I guess I will have to wait until I get three....

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#114502 4-Mar-2008 02:23

well no it does work just not as well as it would as if you had two sorta like the difference between running ram in single channel mode as opposed to duel channel mode which increases the total read write bandwidth by allowing you to read from two dimms at once so by using two interconnects you get a duel path that both cards can read and write to at the same time decreasing the bottle neck and wait times for information exchange between the two

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#115071 6-Mar-2008 21:58

well somebody on here's gotta have one they dont need or want or know somebody that has one they wouldn't miss i'm willin to offer good money for it

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#115102 7-Mar-2008 03:23

i have now got one thanks to Hellonearththisman