Can mac pro's do crossfire with the ATI cards?

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I was wondering if i could link two 1900 XT's using crossfire like on a pc.

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  • Reply 1 of 10
    nope.
  • Reply 2 of 10
    lame :[
  • Reply 3 of 10
    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,309moderator
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by blackmajik2021 View Post


    lame :[



    Really? 'cos one X1900XT card is really that slow



    SLI and Crossfire are lame. Support for the 8800 series GPUs wouldn't go amiss though. Maybe Apple can't keep them cool enough - they barely manage with the X1900XT.
  • Reply 4 of 10
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marvin View Post


    Really? 'cos one X1900XT card is really that slow



    SLI and Crossfire are lame. Support for the 8800 series GPUs wouldn't go amiss though. Maybe Apple can't keep them cool enough - they barely manage with the X1900XT.



    too slow for something like crysis
  • Reply 5 of 10
    or maybe theres this thing called advancing technology and that ati card is over a year old.
  • Reply 6 of 10
    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,309moderator
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by blackmajik2021 View Post


    too slow for something like crysis



    At Ultra high detail yes but it should still be playable:



    "Crysis will run on 2 to 3 year old PCs (or even 4 year old PCs)."



    http://www.incrysis.com/wiki/index.p...m_Requirements



    Even with SLI 8800GTX cards, Oblivion right up at maximum with all the extra options on runs about 20-30fps.



    Graphics cards just aren't fast enough for these games yet.



    AFAIK, lack of crossfire support is due to Intel not Apple btw.



    I agree that Apple need to get some better GPUs in all of their lineup though. Since Crysis isn't out for at least another month (though the demo is supposed to be coming next month I think), maybe Apple will have an update before then. We've still got Leopard to get.
  • Reply 7 of 10
    Quote:

    Support for the 8800 series GPUs wouldn't go amiss though. Maybe Apple can't keep them cool enough - they barely manage with the X1900XT.





    i think it has somthing more to do with EFI.





    Microsoft really screwed everything with their 80's bios.
  • Reply 8 of 10
    Crysis? Meh. UT2007 & NFS:ProStreet. At least I can play that well with like a 8800GTS or something. And XP2Pro smooth.
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