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Question about going crossfire

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The DJ

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I actually didn't know you can mix different cards in crossfire.. Here is what I have and I've been waiting for it to come back in stock--nobody has it. There's really no reason why I shouldn't just get this or this, then right? They're all virtually the same, except different heatskinks and the former has an hdmi out instead of dvi...One question is can you control the fans independently in the CCC? The Vapor-X seems to have superior cooling design and my fan right now is set to 60%.
 
Either on of those cards will work fine. I usally test my cards and put the fastest one in the first slot. And yes you independtly control fan speed in CCC
 
Thanks for the quick reply! I guess the question is if I want the hdmi or not. I've seen reviews where it had two DVIs plus the hdmi and vga. I have a dvi>hdmi going to my 46" and vga to my 32". I might as well go for the Vapor-X. Do you run a benchmark in crossfire mode to see which is faster? Or independently?
 
I bought your 1st card last month from Newegg for $110. I want to run Xfire as well and bought another open box 4870 for $110. It wasn't the card that was pictured on their site. Newegg took it back all free shipping and gave me $25 off any card I wanted so I went with your third option. Both are good cards but the third card OC's a little better than the 1st card. It runs 3 centigrade warmer BTW. All in all I'm pretty happy with my set-up. Dual 4870's 1gb for under $250:beer:
 
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