crossfire cards in a recording pc

[JahJahWarrior]

Hey I want to put at least one ati crossfire card in a mobo now and might buy the second later on. Are there any issues with using an interface and and this dual card setup. I will be using pci. But do you think it will hog the pci busses?

 

[mitosis]

No it should be fine. PCI busses are made to handle significant amounts of information without maxing out or crashing.

 

[dgatwood]

Hey I want to put at least one ati crossfire card in a mobo now and might buy the second later on. Are there any issues with using an interface and and this dual card setup. I will be using pci. But do you think it will hog the pci busses?

Well, yes, but PCIe is point-to-point anyway. There's no harm in saturating a PCIe bus.

What I'd be worried about is it hogging your HyperTransport (or whatever) interconnects between the PCIe controller and the rest of your northbridge. Unless it's using HT 3.0, I -think- you're running right up near the limits with a single x16 slot. With two, you'd better hope the people who designed your northbridge knew what they were doing....