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Old 04-09-2011, 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by machoo View Post
Do you have to buy 2 cards to do this? Or do new cards come these days with 4 cores on one card giving the same performance?
Normally, yes you do need two cards to run two cards in crossfire. Dual graphic processor(gpu) cards like the 5970 is one card but it still needs crossfire support to run both processors in crossfire mode. AFAIK, graphics cards have only one core per gpu but they are heavily threaded so basically, a graphics card can somewhat be labeled as a "multi threaded unit".
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