Quote Originally Posted by ironchef
You might want to read his original post where it says he's running an Intel CPU.
i did and there are Intel boards that do support ATI/Radeon crossfire.if he wants to stick with Intel only VCs,then he can buy a board that supports 3-way SLI.only thing is that if you're bus is 3x1600,you're probably going to get output on the buses of 1600 on the first and 800 or more on the second and 800 or less on the third.then the other problem is the absolute ridiculous size of the SLI card versus the ATI/Radeon cards.even fitting two SLIs on a board doesn't leave hardly any room for keeping it cool or cooler and most of the SLI's fans don't do enough for the amount of heat they produce.if i was to do it that way,i'd run a liquid cooling system around the cards on top of everything else.you'd still come out better getting a crossfire ready Intel board after you had done all that extra stuff to the SLI board.the only reason Intel wont produce or allow to be compatiable with alot of crossfire setups is because Intel is the CPU Mac uses in their machines and Mac is lie the best-friend of NVIDIA.doesn't mean they don't make them or that they wont work,it's just that they don't like it.better performance for better price.Macs are expensive,i know because i only use Mac,and they are because they are hardware specific.