ATI CrossFireX Compatible Motherboard?

[Yesnah]

I am thinking about buying this computer from Newegg.com. It has a ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card. The card itself is crossfire compatible. I wouldn't mind having the second card, but i am not for sure if the motherboard itself will support the upgrade. The motherboard is the AMD 780L Chipset model.

 

Here is a link to the computer. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229194

[Illiad86]

The motherboard does not have two PCI-E slots...no Crossfire :(

 

Anyways...Crossfire/SLI, most games don't even support the second card.

 

That's a nice little setup for the price there, but I'd suggest a better graphics card...but what types of games do you want to play? It's a good little card...but it would struggle to play games.

[Thor.]

Coming from experience and benchmarks, that's not necessarily true. If you use nhancer witch is a great tool comes with a graph benchmark that will say otherwise :thumbsup: .

 

http://www.nhancer.com/

[Yesnah]

Actually... My old PC shot itself practictly. It would keep freezing, wouldn't turn on. When it did, it would almost immediately freeze on the boot screen. My dad took it to a tech guy at work. He changed out the power supply and it didn't work still. I got it back with the original power supply later and turned it on. It worked... Or so i thought. It froze right after i logged onto my user name. I just need a new computer to play the games i currently have. Spore, Civ 4, Morrowind, Fable TLC, and a few others. Nothing super new. This computer is definitely better than my previous one.

 

Old PC Specs:

 

2.7 ghz single core

512 ram

Not a great graphics card either. Just enough to play spore.

 

I didn't really need the crossfire, just wondered if it would work and be helpful at all. You answered both of those questions. What would a reasonable graphics card be right now?

[Illiad86]

something like the 5770, GTX 260, or GTX 460 if you don't want to spend too much...$150-200. Not too expensive...and godly :D Those will play about anything at medium-high to high settings at high resolutions. Oblivion runs like a tank on my 5770....high settings, 8xAA, 16xAF, 1920x1200 ;) Crysis ran pretty well...was shocked....everything on high (DirectX9 settings, I'm still on XP), 1920x1200, 8xAA, 8xAF...averaged about 35FPS :) You don't need too much for those games you listed, but if you get something like those, you'll be set for a lot of newer games :)

[Yesnah]

Awesome. Thanks a ton for that info. I should of thought of the pci slots pretty quickly, but i didn't. I might not get the new card just yet, considering I'm not playing any games that need it so far. When I do get a more intense game I will definitely invest in the new graphics card. Kudos to you my friend. :thumbsup:

[Illiad86]

No problem, anytime :)