Gaming pc hardware question

[morcar]

I have a sapphire radeon 4850 and i was wondering if i wanted to cross fire would have i have to buy that same model or would me buying a XFX 4850 work with it ?

 

[Overman1977]

You'd be better off buying the same model, but it's possible to make it work with another model as long as they both share the same architecture.

 

[phenoM]

Well, atm you can mix different graphic cards together

There will have no problems.
Just take care about the memory in each, if one is a 1Go gfx card and the other a 512Mo card, the system will use the lower value.
So only 512Mo will be use on each card.

 

[Cermage]

for the most part you can crossfire within the same series. so 4850 can crossfire with a 4670, 4770, 4830,another 4850, 4870, 4890 e.t.c so you can just grab the xfx4850. brand doesnt matter.

 

[Rydian]

Here, have a chart.

http://game.amd.com/us-en/content/images/c...combo_chart.jpg