ATI Technologies X1650 manual Welcome to CrossFire, CrossFire Overview

CrossFire™ Overview 101

CHAPTER 7:

Welcome to CrossFire™

ATI CrossFire™ is the ultimate multi-GPU performance gaming platform, using ATI CrossFire™ ready motherboards and ATI graphics cards.

CrossFire™ Overview

This section provides an overview of the main features and configurations

for CrossFire™. These topics will be covered in more detail in other chapters of this manual.

Allowable CrossFire™ System Components

The basic requirements of a CrossFire™ system are a CrossFire™ certified motherboard with two PCI Express® x16 slots, a CrossFire™ Edition graphics card, and a compatible CrossFire™ Compatible graphics card.

A CrossFire™ Edition graphics card works with all members of the same

brand-family. Thus a Radeon® X1650 PRO CrossFire™ Edition graphics card can be used with any Radeon X1650 product.

For an up-to-date listing of CrossFire™ certified motherboards, see:

ati.com/crossfire