Video Card\Motherboard Question

CrazyJoeCrazyJoe Winter Springs, FL Icrontian
edited December 2011 in Hardware
So I have a Dell XPS 630i and I upgraded my video card to a Radeon HD 6850 awhile back. If I wanted to get a 2nd 6850 and run them in Crossfire, would my motherboard be able to handle that?

Here is the service manual for my computer:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xps630i/en/sm/html/cards.htm#wp1180146

From what it says I think I should be fine since it has four PCI Express slots (the 6850 is a dual height card,) but I just wanted to make sure before I went out and bought one.

Comments

  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited November 2011
    Your PSU might not be able to handle it. Do you know how many Watts it is?
  • CrazyJoeCrazyJoe Winter Springs, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2011
    It has a 750W PSU.
  • TushonTushon I'm scared, Coach Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited November 2011
    Yes, you can support it. Slot 1 and slot 4 will be the ones you use.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited November 2011
    Yeah it should be fine, unless you've got some super power-hungry processor in there.
  • CrazyJoeCrazyJoe Winter Springs, FL Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    Does the manufacturer of the card matter, as long as it's still a 6850?
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    Crazy Joe wrote:
    Does the manufacturer of the card matter, as long as it's still a 6850?

    nope

    I would try to get same GPU/MEM clock speeds as what you have, although I'm going to assume that doesn't matter either

    I have a Sapphire and AMD Engineering Sample 6950. Both though, have been flashed with Sapphire 6970 BIOS ;)
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