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Dual graphics cards without crossfire?

Okey dokey this is more of a question for @pccheese or @danj but I’m welcome to anyone chiming in.

So here’s my pc:

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As you can see, there are 2 graphics cards, both made by MSI.

Ones a Radeon RX 480 Gaming, and the other is R7 370 (OC)

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The 480 does bitcoin support crossfire while the 370 does.

I want to use dual graphics though.

How would I do this?

Could I link them connecting them together with a DVI cord? I’m pretty sure that’s what they did when they first made crossfire and SLI.

Thanks!

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Wow! It seems connecting the two graphics cards using a DVI wire will work!

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I've never heard of this and it seams even more limiting than real crossfire. For one, an application has to support crossfire in the first place, or it will only be able to use one GPU. DVI is a very low bandwidth interface compared to PCIe which is what the crossfire interface uses. I think you will see no increase of performance if not a decrease.

Normal PCIe based crossfire requires a GPU of the same generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_CrossF...

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I've figured that out. with that setup it now completely fails the steam vr test.

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Welp, I have to get a new CPU and graphics card anyway. (it will then successfully meet and successfully be a slight bit better than minimum specs.)

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