Can i crossfire on a sli board

[MANIDY inc]

So i got my board because of the colors not the sli.

 

And can i crossfire a 390 on it.

 

Also what is a good PSU to do that 

 

I have a s12 ii right now 

[Clanscorpia]

What wattage? And if it can SLI than it can Crossfire

[Guest]

If you can SLI, you can xf. If you can XF not sure if you can SLI. What do you have? Can you just look up mobo name and see if it's support SLI or not?

[MANIDY inc]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

If you can SLI, you can xf. If you can XF not sure if you can SLI. What do you have? Can you just look up mobo name and see if it's support SLI or not?

Lol it's a sli edition board 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, MANIDY inc said:

Lol it's a sli edition board 

yes you can

[MANIDY inc]

4 minutes ago, Clanscorpia said:

What wattage? And if it can SLI than it can Crossfire

520 I think 

[dizmo]

Best to look it up for yourself. We're all just assuming, we don't even know what board you have.

Figure that out, then look it up on the manufacturers website. It'll give you a definitive answer.

As for CF, you'd probably want a 750w to 850w PSU. I like the G2 series. There are numerous others that will of course work.

[Trav_X]

Anything that can SLI can CrossFire. A lot of people here have said that, but I'm going to expound a bit more. Based on my knowledge, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but here is what the facts are:

 

The criteria for running two of the exact same chip GPU's requires

- 2+ PCIe x16 (or x8 speed in x16 size) slots (1 for each GPU in the system)

- A version of the card with 1 SLI finger for two way SLI, or multiple SLI fingers for the amount of cards you want (or two fingers for a two-way High Bandwidth SLI pairing)

- A board that SUPPORTS SLI (assuming that's just something added into the chipset and into the BIOS for compatibility)

 

Since SLI requires at least two PCIe x16 slots, your board must have two PCIe x16 slots, obviously. Now, the criteria for Crossfire is as follows:

- 2+ PCIe x16 (or x8 speed in x16 size) slots (1 for each GPU in the system)

 

So, let's think for a moment. SLI requires the correct amount of PCIE slots and an SLI certified board. Crossfire requires the correct amount of PCIE slots. So, using reverse psychology, we can see that any motherboard that supports SLI can therefore support CrossFire. CrossFire doesn't require any bridge like SLI fingers, nor can a board be CrossFire certified. All it has to have is at least two x16 size PCIE slots running at x8 or faster.

[SLAYR]

5 minutes ago, Trav_X said:

nor can a board be CrossFire certified. All it has to have is at least two x16 size PCIE slots running at x8 or faster.

Yes boards do need to be crossfire certified to use crossfire, just like SLi requires an SLI certification. There are plenty of boards that don't work with crossfire because they aren't certified mostly server/workstation boards.

 

For a desktop board with multiple pcie x16 slots most likely it does support crossfire just because it is so much more widespread then SLi. 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

50 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

Yes boards do need to be crossfire certified to use crossfire, just like SLi requires an SLI certification. There are plenty of boards that don't work with crossfire because they aren't certified mostly server/workstation boards.

 

For a desktop board with multiple pcie x16 slots most likely it does support crossfire just because it is so much more widespread then SLi. 

Anything with enough full-sized PCIe slots can crossfire, as long as it can at least run two 8x. You can even do triple crossfire with 8x 4x 4x. The only thing a crossfire logo in the mobo box implies is that it can allocate enough pcie lanes to full-sized pcie slots simultaneously. 

 

It's not at all like SLI certification, which may not be present in several boards with multiple electrically 16x or 8x slots. 

[Soundsystem90]

1 hour ago, Trav_X said:

Anything that can SLI can CrossFire. A lot of people here have said that, but I'm going to expound a bit more. Based on my knowledge, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but here is what the facts are:

 

The criteria for running two of the exact same chip GPU's requires

- 2+ PCIe x16 (or x8 speed in x16 size) slots (1 for each GPU in the system)

- A version of the card with 1 SLI finger for two way SLI, or multiple SLI fingers for the amount of cards you want (or two fingers for a two-way High Bandwidth SLI pairing)

- A board that SUPPORTS SLI (assuming that's just something added into the chipset and into the BIOS for compatibility)

 

Since SLI requires at least two PCIe x16 slots, your board must have two PCIe x16 slots, obviously. Now, the criteria for Crossfire is as follows:

- 2+ PCIe x16 (or x8 speed in x16 size) slots (1 for each GPU in the system)

 

So, let's think for a moment. SLI requires the correct amount of PCIE slots and an SLI certified board. Crossfire requires the correct amount of PCIE slots. So, using reverse psychology, we can see that any motherboard that supports SLI can therefore support CrossFire. CrossFire doesn't require any bridge like SLI fingers, nor can a board be CrossFire certified. All it has to have is at least two x16 size PCIE slots running at x8 or faster.

x4 or faster for Crossfire.

 

SLi will not work on anything below x8..

[SLAYR]

29 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Anything with enough full-sized PCIe slots can crossfire, as long as it can at least run two 8x. You can even do triple crossfire with 8x 4x 4x. The only thing a crossfire logo in the mobo box implies is that it can allocate enough pcie lanes to full-sized pcie slots simultaneously. 

 

It's not at all like SLI certification, which may not be present in several boards with multiple electrically 16x or 8x slots. 

The crossfire logo means it has been certified to use crossfire and the motherboard maker has payed for the right for the board to be certified, and the amd drivers will look for that certification.

 

Normally this isn't an issue on desktop boards since 99.9% with multiple pcie slots are crossfire certified. The issues arise when you use non cerifited boards that are most often server/workstation boards which have no use for either sli or crossfire so never get the certification. 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

7 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

The crossfire logo means it has been certified to use crossfire and the motherboard maker has payed for the right for the board to be certified, and the amd drivers will look for that certification.

You are describing SLI. 

[MANIDY inc]

1 hour ago, SLAYR said:

The crossfire logo means it has been certified to use crossfire and the motherboard maker has payed for the right for the board to be certified, and the amd drivers will look for that certification.

 

 

no thats with SLI, its SLI certification i know that becase that's what my board is  

[-rascal-]

3 hours ago, MANIDY inc said:

no thats with SLI, its SLI certification i know that becase that's what my board is  

We haven't even told us WHAT motherboard you are using...

Both SLI and Crossfire will have a logo silk-screened onto the motherboard, or shown on there motherboard's outer packaging box.

Example...

Spoiler

 

 

[MANIDY inc]

40 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

We haven't even told us WHAT motherboard you are using...

Both SLI and Crossfire will have a logo silk-screened onto the motherboard, or shown on there motherboard's outer packaging box.

Example...

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I can say I have never seen a crossfire logo thing. Even on board I've seen people crossfire on. And me looking into it. It said a board has to be SLI certifired to be able to SLI but pretty much any Mobo with 2 pcie slots you can crossfire. Because crossfire has no special needs to work. And for SLI it does.

 

And I said my Mobo is SLI it's a SLi edition board it's the sli krait edition 

Edited December 5, 2016 by MANIDY inc

[Space Reptile]

crossfire only requires you to have 2 PCIE slots , if it can SLI its guaranteed to do CF

[Dabombinable]

7 hours ago, Trav_X said:

Anything that can SLI can CrossFire. A lot of people here have said that, but I'm going to expound a bit more. Based on my knowledge, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but here is what the facts are:

 

The criteria for running two of the exact same chip GPU's requires

- 2+ PCIe x16 (or x8 speed in x16 size) slots (1 for each GPU in the system)

- A version of the card with 1 SLI finger for two way SLI, or multiple SLI fingers for the amount of cards you want (or two fingers for a two-way High Bandwidth SLI pairing)

- A board that SUPPORTS SLI (assuming that's just something added into the chipset and into the BIOS for compatibility)

 

Since SLI requires at least two PCIe x16 slots, your board must have two PCIe x16 slots, obviously. Now, the criteria for Crossfire is as follows:

- 2+ PCIe x16 (or x8 speed in x16 size) slots (1 for each GPU in the system)

 

So, let's think for a moment. SLI requires the correct amount of PCIE slots and an SLI certified board. Crossfire requires the correct amount of PCIE slots. So, using reverse psychology, we can see that any motherboard that supports SLI can therefore support CrossFire. CrossFire doesn't require any bridge like SLI fingers, nor can a board be CrossFire certified. All it has to have is at least two x16 size PCIE slots running at x8 or faster.

Crossfire is fine if the second slot is only x4. Its why my Asus H87M Pro can do Crossfire.

[SLAYR]

10 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

You are describing SLI. 

 

10 hours ago, MANIDY inc said:

no thats with SLI, its SLI certification i know that becase that's what my board is  

It is the same tehnology. 99.9% chance if it supports SLI it supports crossfire, but there is a chance it doesn't if you don't see a certification that it does.

 

http://support.amd.com/en-us/search/faq/70

 

Requirements

• An AMD CrossFire supporting motherboard

It has to have certification to run crossfire, you can't run it on everything, it is mostly an issue with server boards though which cannot run crossfire due to lack of certification. I hate repeating myself.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

5 hours ago, SLAYR said:

 

It has to have certification to run crossfire, you can't run it on everything, it is mostly an issue with server boards though which cannot run crossfire due to lack of certification. I hate repeating myself.

Yeah, I hate you repeating yourself too. Especially because repetition doesn't make something true.

Also, recommended =/= required.

But feel free to enlighten me and explain what else than sufficient PCie slots and lanes does a motherboard need to run crossfire, because all this "black box" certification won't cut it. It is a fact that SLI won't work on non-certified boards. Can you same the same of Crossfire on boards with enough PCIe slots+lanes? I mean evidenced-backed, not just a mantra.

Now, I wouldn't be surprised if certain server chipsets perhaps get in teh way of crossfire, but then they wouldn't support SLI either. I stand by any mainstream platform (or X99) board that supports SLI also supporting crossfire, and also by it supporting crossfire if enough PCIe slots+lanes are present.

It seems I'm not the only one to think so:

 

 

[Guest]

crossfire 390's? jesus, the power draw when you can have that much performance in one card with less than half the TDP? 

 

furnace.. 

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Yeah, I hate you repeating yourself too. Especially because repetition doesn't make something true.

Also, recommended =/= required.

But feel free to enlighten me and explain what else than sufficient PCie slots and lanes does a motherboard need to run crossfire, because all this "black box" certification won't cut it. It is a fact that SLI won't work on non-certified boards. Can you same the same of Crossfire on boards with enough PCIe slots+lanes? I mean evidenced-backed, not just a mantra.

Now, I wouldn't be surprised if certain server chipsets perhaps get in teh way of crossfire, but then they wouldn't support SLI either. I stand by any mainstream platform (or X99) board that supports SLI also supporting crossfire, and also by it supporting crossfire if enough PCIe slots+lanes are present.

It seems I'm not the only one to think so:

 

 

It used to be that a custom driver was all that was needed to get SLI working on non certified boards (eg. My Asus P5 Deluxe, which has 2x PCIe x16 slots that run at x8 with 2 cards installed, and could run SLI with the custom driver)

[MANIDY inc]

30 minutes ago, Alexokan said:

crossfire 390's? jesus, the power draw when you can have that much performance in one card with less than half the TDP? 

 

furnace.. 

My 390 I have now doesn't even get past 75c 

[DXMember]

I have Crossfire setup on a board that has a name "MSI X99 SLI PLUS"

does that answer your question?

[-rascal-]

15 hours ago, MANIDY inc said:

I can say I have never seen a crossfire logo thing. Even on board I've seen people crossfire on. And me looking into it. It said a board has to be SLI certifired to be able to SLI but pretty much any Mobo with 2 pcie slots you can crossfire. Because crossfire has no special needs to work. And for SLI it does.

 

And I said my Mobo is SLI it's a SLi edition board it's the sli krait edition 

The SLI and Crossfire logos used to appears on almost every motherboard.

These days, only some have them -- there is just not much more free space on the motherboard.

 

Anyways, according to MSi's website, your motherboard supports both SLI and Crossfire.

https://ca.msi.com/Motherboard/Z97S-SLI-Krait-Edition.html#hero-overview

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Multi-GPU: NVIDIA SLI & AMD Crossfire Support

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