hybrid crossfire? is there such a thing

[goober]

I heard a little while ago that ATI was coming out or came out with the technology to crossfire 2 different cards together to use like crossfire, i was wondering if it is possible to crossfire a 2600XT with a 2900XT and have a performance increase with the driver/patch?

[xfire]

AFAIK
hybrid crossfire= powersaving feature to switch between IGP and seperate gcard
crossfire x = 2 different cards in crossfire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_700_chipset_series#ATI_Hybrid_Graphics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_CrossFire#Configurations

[goober]

so i could use a 2600xt and a 2900xt and X-Fire them?

[GJSNeptune]

Give this (http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQzMiwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==) a whirl.

Hybrid Crossfire is coupling one video card with the integrated GPU. Now people with one video card can still use Crossfire! It actually looks pretty promising.

[btarunr]

so i could use a 2600xt and a 2900xt and X-Fire them?

No. Only Crossfire X compliant cards will. The HD 3000 series cards are Crossfire X compatible, not HD 2000 or earlier.

[goober]

i dont need to use the integrated, i have a 2900 and the 2600 thats y i was asking

[xfire]

No. Only Crossfire X compliant cards will. The HD 3000 series cards are Crossfire X compatible, not HD 2000 or earlier.
Thanks. I didn't know myself if 2k series supported crossfire x:o

[goober]

i guess i could try it and see if it would work, what is the worst that could happen?

[xfire]

You should have done that before starting this thread. :|

[goober]

i didnt know if someone has tried it before.

[Xazax]

The worst that will happen, is that your whole computer will catch on fire!

lol, no but seriously nothing will happen you can only CF Similar cards, I.E. 2900XT with a 2900XT, 2600XT with a 2600XT, etc... if you put them both in, you will see no CF options of performance gains; the only thing you will be able to do is run 2 more monitors :)