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Crossfire 7970 big sham???

when I first added my second 7970 the option to enable xfire did not show up. I uninstalled the drivers then ran driversweeper then reinstalled the drivers and worked fine
 
What's getting me is that I'd just sell the processor but the fact I haven't paid for it yet and people telling me it wi bottle neck my system is very frustrating for me lol.
 
dmhenson1989 said:
I'd like to see proof of this before I believe, 4.4ghz cores boosted to 4.7ghz can't see it making a huge dent into performance
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Well there's benchmarks which show 1 card having an FPS hit, 2 is going to be a bigger difference.

Bearing in mind, you've paid 760 quid? for GPU's which will get out paced by people spending 360 on a 7950 Crossfire, LT Matt's older CPU (Almost 2 years older) with his lesser GPU set up will post consistently better results than you.

When you put it into perspective, it's not good.
 
dmhenson1989 said:
Ok guys I'm sending the components back! Now shall I only send back my processor or both processor and graphics card and start again?
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Personally, I'd get rid of the GPU's and go for the 7970 MSI's at 260 each.
That'll save you a fair chunk.

And I'd definitely jump upto a socket 1150 system for better performance.
 
Ok thanks a lot guys can you recommend what to buy. Mobo, intel CPU and I will stick to another 7970 as I've already got one, but ill get the msi one to save me 100 quid like you say:-) also I have geil corsa evo 1833mhz 8gb would that need upgrade? I'm willing to spend up to 1000 pound on my upgrade
 
8GB Geil is fine.
You could always wait for Ivy-E, get a 4930K, X79 board with a 7970 MSI.

That'd do some dirty things all over the FX95.

If you haven't got an SSD, then Z87 with a 250GB SSD, 4770K and a Gigabyte OC Z87 and MSI 7970 would be good.

Then with an uber fresh Windows 8.1 install and you're laughing.
 
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Ivy-E is the new line up for socket 2011, it's Intels enthusiast socket.
But if you haven't got an SSD, just bung some money into an SSD and go Z87 with a 4770K on Socket 1150.
 
dmhenson1989 said:
Ok guys I'm sending the components back! Now shall I only send back my processor or both processor and graphics card and start again?
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You didn't get x-fire to work in the end? Did you check the PCI slots, x-fire bridge, clean driver install etc? Your current setup should be giving out some decent performance if it worked correctly.

I don't think you're getting a fair treatment from everybody in this thread tbh. Advising you that your should buy a new cpu is a cop out imo.
 
No one thinks its his CPU that's causing the problem.
It's just an after thought to get the best performance, because as I've said, LT Matt's "older" and "lesser" GPU set up is going to be outperforming him, and he's spent more money than LTMatt, whether or not he gives up trying to sort out his current AMD system doesn't change that.

All the suggestions have been made for potential fixes, short of going round his house and applying them, what more can we do :p?
 
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im sure it just a driver issue or xfire not enabled in ccc, ive seen plenty of people on this site with the same sort of specs running 79xx xfire, well thats my thoughts anyway
 
First id ask for screenshots of his amd/ati whatever these days drivers screens. Also screenshots of gpuz for both cards and the sensors tabs of both cards when running a game and heaven bench. Next someone link him to the ati drivers uninstall tool that i heard about recently. Maybe driver sweeper too i duno if u wana go that route.

Check windows update for any updates?

Is the cards getting enough power, i.e the pci-e connectors all 4 are plugged into the 2 cards correctly. Maybe do cpuz screenies too.

First lets avoid upgrade of cpu and stuff talk and find the issue first. Oh and iver heard ppl say get windows 8, well to the OP i would skip their advice if they suggest windows 8 lol. :p Windows 7 is all ud ever need. :)
 
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Ha, Windows 8 isn't that bad.

Could just use start8, it's faster than Windows 7.

I can understand the hate for Windows 8, some of it is justified, but a lot isn't.

Afaik, he's at work, and we're all waiting on him to do the fixes that people have suggested, as far as I can see, no one has suggested upgrading for the fix.

Reason I say go Intel, he's in DSR period, he's spent loads, and he's not getting the full performance out of it, not suggesting that he changes to me is bad advice, or else people with older/cheaper set ups will be out performing him.
In which case, why spend all that money just to get out performed by GPU sets up that cost half and CPU's that are almost 2 years older?
 
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