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So currently i have a single AMD crossfire enabled card, if i got a different better AMD Crossfire enabled card, would that work. Or would i need to get another of the card i have now. Also could i get one AMD card and one NVIDIA card, or will that not work?

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"Single AMD crossfire enabled card". I think you mean to say that the card can crossfire because crossfire can not be enabled with a single card as far as I know. As for the rules for SLI/Crossfire watch this

 

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What is your current card? Also no you can't mix AMD and nvidia cards

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If you run an old Nvidia driver you can use it as a dedicated PhysX card but it wont talk with the AMD card.
and as far as mixing AMD cards it's became a little more difficult to figure out with the name change from 7xxx to R X XXX, I wish I could help you on that but the short answer is maybe, what cards are we looking at?

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AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R9 290X and R9 290

AMD Radeon R9 280X CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R9 280X, R9 280, AMD Radeon HD 7970, and HD 7950.

AMD Radeon R9 270X CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R9 270X, AMD Radeon HD 7870 and AMD Radeon 7850.

AMD Radeon R9 270 CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R9 270.

AMD Radeon R7 260X CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R7 260X and AMD Radeon HD 7790.

AMD Radeon R7 260 CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R7 260.

AMD Radeon R7 250 CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R7 250. 

AMD Radeon R7 240 CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R7 240.

 

Crossfire cards will downclock the the weakest cards specs.

 

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It will work for rendering but I don't think it would work for gaming unless you set physx to it

Well how would i set physx up 

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Well how would i set physx up

Well how would i set physx up

in the nvidia control panel also it would only work with an nvidia card and its going to help very little and only in certain games like metro

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If you run an old Nvidia driver you can use it as a dedicated PhysX card but it wont talk with the AMD card.

and as far as mixing AMD cards it's became a little more difficult to figure out with the name change from 7xxx to R X XXX, I wish I could help you on that but the short answer is maybe, what cards are we looking at?

Long answer:

 

AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R9 290X and R9 290

AMD Radeon R9 280X CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R9 280X, R9 280, AMD Radeon HD 7970, and HD 7950.

AMD Radeon R9 270X CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R9 270X, AMD Radeon HD 7870 and AMD Radeon 7850.

AMD Radeon R9 270 CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R9 270.

AMD Radeon R7 260X CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R7 260X and AMD Radeon HD 7790.

AMD Radeon R7 260 CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R7 260.

AMD Radeon R7 250 CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R7 250. 

AMD Radeon R7 240 CrossFire compatible with AMD Radeon R7 240.

 

Crossfire cards will downclock the the weakest cards specs.

 

Damnit my card wont work for the other one i would want.  BTW nice computer :)

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CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz
CPU Cooler: Corsair H50
Motherboard: Asus Z170-E ATX LGA1151
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB (2 x 8GB)
Storage: ADATA Premier SP550 240GB
Storage: Western Digital Blue 500GB
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB G1
Case: Fractal Design Define S
Power Supply: Corsair CSM 550W

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Don't criticize people for asking "stupid question".

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