Using The Radeon® X1900 Series With Crossfire; Crossfire™ Overview; Allowable Crossfire™ System Components; Crossfire™ Rendering Modes - ATI Technologies X1900 - Radeon XTX 512 MB PCIE Video Card User Manual

CHAPTER 8:
Using the Radeon® X1900 Series with
CrossFire™
The Radeon® X1900 Series can be used as a Slave graphics card in a
CrossFire™ system.
For the full system requirements necessary to put together a working
CrossFire™ system, see the CrossFire™ FAQ.
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 Radeon® CrossFire™
Edition graphics card (the Master graphics card), and a compatible
Radeon® graphics card (the Slave graphics card).
A CrossFire™ graphics card works with all members of the same brand-
family. Thus a Radeon® X1900 CrossFire™ Edition can be used as the
Master graphics card with any Radeon® X1900 product.
For an up-to-date listing of CrossFire™ certified motherboards, see:
ati.com/crossfire.
CrossFire™ Rendering Modes
A CrossFire™ system has four possible display modes:
• SuperTiling
• Scissor Mode
• Alternate Frame Rendering
• Super Anti-aliasing.
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