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cookiebun

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crossfire
« on: June 18, 2014, 02:01:44 pm »
Hi I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5 TH Socket 1155 VGA DVI HDMI Dual Thunderbolt and I  have just bought another Sapphire R9 290 Tri X OC 4GB AMD PCI Express Graphics Card is there anything I need to do to the mobo before I install them ie update the bios.
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autotech

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Re: crossfire
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2014, 01:09:42 am »
I always keep mine updated to the latest bios. I would say as long as you are at F9 you should be good the rest is memory and secure boot and so on.

Now on to your crossfire question. Install your card as long as you only have the one card there is no need to worry about crossfire.
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cookiebun

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Re: crossfire
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2014, 12:06:10 am »
sorry I don't think I made myself clear I already have 1 Sapphire R9 290 Tri X OC 4GB AMD PCI Express Graphics Card I have bought another one so now I have 2 and will be running them in crossfire, is there anything I should do to the mobo.
Intel Core i7 8700K Unlocked Coffee Lake OEM CPU/Processor
AORUS Gaming 7 Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
Corsair 32GB ( 4x8) DDR4 Vengeance LPX 3000MHz Memory
Zotac NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8GB AMP! Extreme Turing Graphics Card
Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 500GB M.2, Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB

autotech

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Re: crossfire
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2014, 01:20:24 am »
Nothing to the motherboard no but what you want to do is uninstall all amd graphics drivers. Download from amd the latest drivers put where you can get to the install easy. After uninstalling graphics drivers shut down computer and install the other card and make sure to put the crossfire bridge on  them.

Restart computer and install drivers after install open CCC and make sure crossfire is enabled. You are good to go at this point sorry I misunderstood you.
GA-Z170X-UD5,Core i5-6600K,16 GIG,3200 ram ,2 X Corsair 240GB SATA III SSD, 500 gig HD,7 ult 64\, Rx-480 8gig\

Z97X-SOC GIGABYTE, I5 4670k, 16 gig 1600 ram, 240 gig sata3 SSD,1x 500HD/ R9 280x, corsair 650 RM PSU

GA-Z97X-Gaming G1,850 corsair,,DDR4 3200,240SSd,6950 video,850EVA