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When it comes mixing and matching different types of graphics card and running them in either SLI or CrossFire mode you are bound to have a number of problems. You will not find too many people advising in trying this, but the video card companies are working hard at making this work. Today, we are looking at ATI's budget friendly Radeon HD 3850 (
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/591/1/) and Radeon HD 3870 (
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/605/1/) graphics cards to seeing how they work together in CrossFire. We've previously reviewed both of these series in CrossFire before, but never dared to look at them mixed together and running CrossFire. ATI has done a ton of driver improvements since we first looked at those cards with the CATALYST 7.11 beta drivers and the CATALYST 8.1 and CATALYST 8.2 drivers have proven to be very solid. While the ATI CATALYST 8.2 drivers will be out by the time this is posted this article still will be useful as the only major performance enhancement in CATALYST 8.2 drivers is on Company of Heroes.
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