Help with sli/crossfire.

[Xstatic]

Maybe I dont understand all this sli/crossfire thing correctly. I'm probably way way off but isn't sli dual gfx cards for Nvidia and crossfire dual gfx cards for ATI? If so then why are all the mobos SLI and none say crossfire? I mean take the dfi boards for example. They all say DFI NF4 ultra-d sli blah blah. Will this mobo work with 2 ati cards? Or do I need to get Nvidia cards only to run 2 of them on this board. Or would I need to get a totaly different board to run 2 ATI cards?

Sorry but I'm just getting back into the new technology and getting ready to order a new system this week. Probably later tonight and tomorrow. Thanks.

[RangerXLT8]

Maybe I dont understand all this sli/crossfire thing correctly. I'm probably way way off but isn't sli dual gfx cards for Nvidia and crossfire dual gfx cards for ATI? If so then why are all the mobos SLI and none say crossfire? I mean take the dfi boards for example. They all say DFI NF4 ultra-d sli blah blah. Will this mobo work with 2 ati cards? Or do I need to get Nvidia cards only to run 2 of them on this board. Or would I need to get a totaly different board to run 2 ATI cards?

Sorry but I'm just getting back into the new technology and getting ready to order a new system this week. Probably later tonight and tomorrow. Thanks.

All those Nvidea sli boards run sli and sli only. Not a chance in hell that Crossfire is running on an SLi board. There are only a few boards on the market that will run Crossfire. If you go Intel, you have the Asus P5WD2-E Premium i975X chipset that supports full 8x-8x Crossfire. The P5WD2 i955 will run Crossfire but with a crippled 8x-4x pci bus. For AMD you have a couple boards, maybe 2 that will run Crossfire.

[princeofdarknes]

here's a DFI crossfire board, notice it has an ATI chipset
http://us.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=3669&CATEGORY_TYPE=LP%20UT&SITE=US

[ViperJohn]

Maybe I dont understand all this sli/crossfire thing correctly. I'm probably way way off but isn't sli dual gfx cards for Nvidia and crossfire dual gfx cards for ATI? If so then why are all the mobos SLI and none say crossfire? I mean take the dfi boards for example. They all say DFI NF4 ultra-d sli blah blah. Will this mobo work with 2 ati cards? Or do I need to get Nvidia cards only to run 2 of them on this board. Or would I need to get a totaly different board to run 2 ATI cards?

Sorry but I'm just getting back into the new technology and getting ready to order a new system this week. Probably later tonight and tomorrow. Thanks.

A DFI RDX200 is your AMD CF motherboard.

Viper