There seems to be a single-slot ATI Radeon HD 5700 series trend going on, with XFX designing two single-slot ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics cards, a base model (HD-577X-ZMF3), and an Eyefinity-5 model (HD-577X-Z5F3). Both cards use PCB and cooler designed by XFX. What is the difference between AMD Radeon RX 570 and XFX Radeon RX 550 Slim Single Slot 4GB? Find out which is better and their overall performance in the graphics card ranking.

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Installation and software and power consumption

Before we dive into the benchmark session I wanted to talk you through the process of installing a CrossfireX setup. As explained -- any motherboard with three x16 PCIe slots (preferably x8 or x16 lanes per slot) will do. Obviously we are talking about a decent amount of horsepower with the Radeon HD 5770 cards, and as such we do recommend a fairly spicy system.

You simply seat the cards and connect the Crossfire fingers like shown below. You can find the CrossfireX connectors at the top-side of the graphics card.

For two cards you use one CrossfireX bridge, for three you use two and for four cards you use three CrossfireX bridges.

Make sure you do not forget to hook up the 6-pin power connectors to all graphics cards and connect your monitor to the Radeon HD 5770 card located closest to your CPU. This is the hardware part, and yes it is as easy at it sounds.

On the software side of things you simply need to boot into Windows, install the latest Catalyst drivers and after a reboot, in most scenarios, CrossfireX is automatically detected and enabled. If not then go into the Catalyst Control Center and check the CrossfireX tabs as shown below.

click to enlarge - make sure CrossfireX is flagged.

One last tip, especially with multi-GPU setups it is wise to have your old drivers properly uninstalled prior to installing the new cards and drivers. Typically things hardly go wrong, but if they do... 99% chance it's related to a residual driver installation.

We are now operational and ready for physical multi-GPU testing. First off we are going to look at power consumption numbers, heat and noise levels.

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