I just bought a used 4850 online to go with my 4830 and neither the 4830 or the 4850 come with a bridge. I don't have any experience with CF and the motherboard manual is vague on the subject. Do I need a bridge with the UD3R and if so do I need 1 or 2? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Do I need a bridge for CF with a GA-EX58-UD3R
Wont work in crossfire without a bridge. One will do. You do know that your 4850 will be degraded to 4830 performance, don't you?i7 920 DO @ 4410 210*21 Watercooled
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Re: Do I need a bridge for CF with a GA-EX58-UD3R
Originally posted by genec57 View PostWont work in crossfire without a bridge. One will do. You do know that your 4850 will be degraded to 4830 performance, don't you?920 D0, 4.3Ghz, 1.312v (24/7 OC)
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Re: Do I need a bridge for CF with a GA-EX58-UD3R
Good info, thanks for the advice. I have a 22" inch monitor with 1680x1050 resolution. I'll keep on eye on 4850 prices, hopefully when ATI releases their new lineup people will be looking to unload their 4x00 series cards cheap. Until then I'm content since I was only looking for 4830 crossfire performance anyway and I got a decent deal on a single slot 4850. The increase in performance with just the 4850 in games that don't benefit much from crossfire is a nice bonus also.920 D0, 4.3Ghz, 1.312v (24/7 OC)
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plenty of xfire bridges on ebay if you take a look,also some cards need two, well my old x1950 pro needs two bridges but you can tell if you look on the card and see one or two connections.....and why is it that the supplied bridges that come with my ud5 board are too narrow???Last edited by wazza300; 09-05-2009, 06:36 PM.Gigabyte z77x UP4-TH F11c Modded Bios
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Re: Do I need a bridge for CF with a GA-EX58-UD3R
Originally posted by wazza300 View Postand why is it that the supplied bridges that come with my ud5 board are too narrow???
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Originally posted by Lsdmeasap View PostThe bridges that are included with the X58 boards are SLI Bridges and not Crossfire ones, that is why it looks narrow, it's for SLI.Gigabyte z77x UP4-TH F11c Modded Bios
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They are both for SLI, one for two card SLI and one for Three card SLI. This is stated in your manual, page 20
GIGABYTE - Support&Download - Motherboard - Manual - GA-EX58-UD5 (rev. 1.0)
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Originally posted by Lsdmeasap View PostThey are both for SLI, one for two card SLI and one for Three card SLI. This is stated in your manual, page 20
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Re: Do I need a bridge for CF with a GA-EX58-UD3R
No biggie, I kinda thought the same thing with mine until I looked at them when I opened the wrappers.
I wish they would make them for us ATI users and include them.
I think they do with SLI as they paid for SLI Licensing for each board is why
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It is up to the board manufacturer to supply SLI bridges as they have licensed the tech from Nvidia and it must be part of the agreement. ATI Crossfire bridges are always supplied with the card.
Your X1950Pro needs two bridges, or at least it did with the older driver versions. By its own admission, only one channel was used to communicate with the GPU's though. From the HD2xxx onwards, only one bridge is needed and the drivers will implememt CF just fine with one installed.
The real reason for two ports on the top of each card on all modern ATI GPU's is to allow three or more cards to be connected. For example in a three card setup cards 1 and 3 will only have one connector used, where as card two will have both used, one going to card 1 and the other to card 3. Having two connectors totally eliminates the pre-X1900Pro era of external connections and having to have a "Master Card" and a "Slave Card".Coolermaster CM 690 II advance Case
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Re: Do I need a bridge for CF with a GA-EX58-UD3R
Yeap, I have a triple setup going right now
I think a hard blue bridge like the SLI one for crossfire would be cool though, but maybe only because there isn't one now though as I always see the SLI users saying they want flexible ones like xfire has so who knows?
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