thank you all for the help in my crossfire question. i was referring to the pins layout between the 2nd and 3rd pcie slots on the board. i read that those pins are for the 3rd pcie slot. i will try the pcie autonomous setting in the bios. i had the bridge install and everything. one thing that was strange was after i install the latest driver 8.5, ccc didn't come up. i can launch it manually, but it would just sit there. i'll fiddle around with it more tonight. i'm running windows server 2k8, but that shouldn't matter as it's like vista with sp1. i'd love to get crossfire working as i just bought a new corsair tx 750w. thanks again everyone for your help.