ATI Technologies RADEON X1650 - Manual (Page 34)

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5 Which slot does the CrossFire
™
Master card go into on the
motherboard?
The CrossFire
™
Master card must go into the primary PCI Express
®
slot (slot zero) on the motherboard.
Note: To determine which PCIe
™
slot is the primary slot, consult
your motherboard manual.
Alternately, to determine whether or not a CrossFire
™
Edition card is
in the correct slot, connect your display directly to the DVI-I
connection on the Master graphics card instead of using the
CrossFire
™
DMS-59™/VHDCI connector, with both graphics cards
seated in their respective slots on the motherboard. If an image
appears on the screen upon boot-up, the card has been placed in the
primary slot on the motherboard.
6 Are there any software settings required for CrossFire
™
to work?
Yes, there is a setting in the Catalyst
™
Control Center that needs to be
enabled for CrossFire
™
to operate. When all of the hardware and
software has been properly set up and installed, the CrossFire
™
aspect
appears in Catalyst
™
Control Center:
To access and enable CrossFire
™
in Catalyst
™
Control Center, do the
following:
• Click CrossFire
™
in Advanced View. Then, select Enable
CrossFire
™
.
When CrossFire
™
is successfully enabled, all display devices except
the one used by CrossFire
™
will be disabled. Multiple monitors/
displays that are disabled when CrossFire
™
is enabled reappear after
CrossFire ™ is disabled.
To change to Advanced View:
• Click the Dashboard View button and select Advanced View.
• Select Displays Manager in the tree view.
7 What is the difference between a CrossFire
™
Edition graphics
card and a standard graphics card from the same family?
CrossFire
™
Edition graphics cards include a “compositing engine”, a
chip that takes the partially rendered image from the Slave graphics
card and merges it with the partially rendered image from the Master