09-03-2006, 02:24 PM
Crossfire is a method of combining the capabilities of more than one compatible graphics card. Basically, like adding a second processor to a
multiprocessor system. It only works on PCI Express, because no computer has more than one AGP slot, and original PCI is too slow to support it.
Your nVidia 6800 is actually better than my nVidia 6600, and I get decent enough frame rates (nothing spectacular, but my bottleneck is with my
processor/motherboard speed, not the gfx card).
You need to list your full system spec in order for us to give you the best advice.
For comparison, I have:-
an AMD Athlon XP2600+ @ 1.9 GHz
an ASRock K7SX8E motherboard
1 GB of PC3200 RAM
an XPertVision nVidia GeForce 6600 128 MB AGP 8x graphics card
1x 160 GB hard drive
1x 120 GB hard drive (50 GB of which has been partitioned aside exclusively for Flight Sim 2004)
multiprocessor system. It only works on PCI Express, because no computer has more than one AGP slot, and original PCI is too slow to support it.
Your nVidia 6800 is actually better than my nVidia 6600, and I get decent enough frame rates (nothing spectacular, but my bottleneck is with my
processor/motherboard speed, not the gfx card).
You need to list your full system spec in order for us to give you the best advice.
For comparison, I have:-
an AMD Athlon XP2600+ @ 1.9 GHz
an ASRock K7SX8E motherboard
1 GB of PC3200 RAM
an XPertVision nVidia GeForce 6600 128 MB AGP 8x graphics card
1x 160 GB hard drive
1x 120 GB hard drive (50 GB of which has been partitioned aside exclusively for Flight Sim 2004)