GTX 580 & 590 triple SLI??????
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dugdiamond
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Ummm - i don't it quite works like that
when SLI-ing GPUs, they have to be the same brand/model
when SLI-ing GPUs, they have to be the same brand/model
dugdiamond
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lucid hydra wont even do it either, as it doesn't work with multiple 490s or 590s
Stromatolites
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You can't sli a 580 with a 590. Unlike how you can crossfire a 5970 with a 5870 or a 6990 and 6970 for instance.
Matthias2437
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They dont actually, they just have to be the same GPU. I am not saying the 590 will work with a 580 but if you take a normal Asus 580 and an EVGA 580 they will run in SLI.
Karlos_the_n00b
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I misunderstood Dug's comment the first time I read it too.
When he says brand/model he's referring to the GPU brand/model eg. GTX 570, not the manufacturer of the card
Really? Cool. So you could run tri-fire with a 6990 and 6970.
Can you crossfire any of the 6xxx together?
Where did you find this out btw? I know ATI use to have a chart that showed all the cards you could crossfire together but haven't seen a updated version in ages.
dugdiamond
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i would have said manufacturer otherwise
EDIT: by brand: i meant you cannot mix a reference GPU with a pre-OC's version of the card (ie: a GTX480 and a GTX480Ti SOC), as a rule - but this can be overcome by flashing the BIOS to the same version.... but by doing this one card may lose out on performance.
the only way it can be done otherwise is via Lucid Hydra... but the LH doesn't like 2, or more, nvidia's 590s on the same board. it also cannot do 590 and 6990.
true lucid hydra capabilities:
i hope this helps
EDIT: by brand: i meant you cannot mix a reference GPU with a pre-OC's version of the card (ie: a GTX480 and a GTX480Ti SOC), as a rule - but this can be overcome by flashing the BIOS to the same version.... but by doing this one card may lose out on performance.
the only way it can be done otherwise is via Lucid Hydra... but the LH doesn't like 2, or more, nvidia's 590s on the same board. it also cannot do 590 and 6990.
true lucid hydra capabilities:
- 590 + 590 = no go
- 590 + any other non-multi-gpu = okay
- 590 + 6990 = no go
- 6990 + 6990 = no go
- 6990 + any other single-gpu-card = tri crossfire (equivalent)
- any single-gpu-card (upto 4 cards) mixed = okay
i hope this helps
Karlos_the_n00b
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i would have said manufacturer otherwise
Yeah but be fair, you could have explained it better
MSI, XFX, Sapphire, Asus, ect, people consider them brand names.
If you'd have just said "They have to be the same model" that would been easier to understand and still got your point across
dugdiamond
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i edited my last post, to shed some more light on things
Stromatolites
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It's just something AMD make known about their cards.
I think you can do 6950and70, as well as 6850and70. But there is little point really as the one would downclock to the other.
Well it's not really. The two 580's in there are heavily downclocked and the whole chips system is incompatible. Nvidia in theory could make it work, but they haven't done so with past cards.
adamjamesroe
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Reading a review the other day, apparently you can SLI 590 + 580 but nvidia just havent enabled it within there drivers, appaerntly so anyway.
Lollipop
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Reading a review the other day, apparently you can SLI 590 + 580 but nvidia just havent enabled it within there drivers, appaerntly so anyway.
here is me hoping they do ;D
dugdiamond
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the lycid hydra is an on-board motherboard chip addition, that enables the mix of cross brand/vendor GPUs to be resident on a single mobo, while working as a CrossFireX/SLI solution.
some motherboards that has these chips on-board are:
- Asus Crosshair IV Extreme
- MSI Big Bang Fuzion
- MSI 870A Fuzion Power Edition (which i have)
- MSI P55A Fuzion
- Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra
- MSI Big Bang Conqueror
more info can be found here
