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    5870m primary and secondary cards

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by lzykocp1002, Mar 22, 2011.

  1. lzykocp1002

    lzykocp1002 Notebook Consultant

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    is there such a thing as 2 different 5870m's primary and secondary, obviously secondary is designed for crossfire, but from what i read latest gpu's unlike the 3870m series don't have primary and secondary and either one would be able to work as a single dedicated system

    example, say i pulled a "secondary card" 5870m from a m17x laptop and put it into a sager laptop, i wouldn't have a issue i presume, again as far as i know primary and secondary don't mean crap and the secondary if anything is exact same thing as primary except it might come with a crossfire cable.
     
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    JaiaV Notebook Evangelist

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    Alienware 5870M have an Alienware Primary and Secondary VBIOS, and Sager has a Primary and Secondary Sager VBIOS. The cards are compatible but you have to be able to load the card up to be able to flash the correct VBIOS to the card. So in essence, in 5870M, the VBIOS are all different for each card and for each OEM. The VBIOS AFAIK is interchangeable but like I said, have to be able to load the card up to flash it.
     
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    lzykocp1002 Notebook Consultant

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    it wouldn't work to load it up standard? on sager system or say a m17x r1 system, i understand that r1 bios never supported 5870m but it has a integrated chipset, say i could boot through dos via usb boot disk and flash just the card to primary, that shouldn't be an issue though right? even though the motherboard doesn't support the card, it would still recognize it?
     
    lzykocp1002, Mar 23, 2011
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