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Crossfire 7970 big sham???

I agree that a whole new system is a bit drastic when its user error thats causing the whole thing. Yes,it was a bad choice of CPU in the first place but they should still work. Is the crossfire bridge on the right way/on at all? And is catalyst AI still a thing? If so untick that box.
 
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If hes used the stuff they may not take it back with DSR tho. If he can take it back id say get a 670 card, a i5 3570k a z77 d3h mb and use that to game with. Does me. :) If hes made of money get 670 in sli then (tho my mb is xfire only). For a cpu u dont need better than a 3570k. But this is all up to him, if hes happy with what he has when the fps go up which they should before any hardware changes then well leave it at that, if he wants to change hardware then we can advise him. But should wait till he actually asks i think i mean he has google and ocuk forums to browse through to get a general idea of whats a good combo for amd or intel and nvidia and ati and stuff by now. If not then psst OP go check out some info on the forums ;)
 
They should take it back under DSR.
I've used a board for about a week and DSR'ed it before.

Used a CPU and DSR'ed it (As I was fault finding)

At any rate, if I'd just spend 1K on 3 parts and someone with older and cheaper stuff was getting better performance, I'd want to know where I've gone wrong, you can't tell me you wouldn't want to know the same thing.
 
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Tho i will admit tho i duno what that cpu he has is like per say but with a pair of 7970s in xfire or whatever he has, he better have a good cpu to pair with first. Otherwise its a bit of a shame spending all that money when ok yes gpus are important but cpu is still important at least i would rate cpu always the first thing to look at upgrading before a gpu solution. But thats me.
 
How are ppl saying the amd processor is a bad choice when it beats intels offerings in more popular games like Bf3 and Crysis 3 etc. I brought my 8350 for £125 and it easily runs 5ghz at nice temps. Bottlenecks? pffft!
 
1uke said:
How are ppl saying the amd processor is a bad choice when it beats intels offerings in more popular games like Bf3 and Crysis 3 etc. I brought my 8350 for £125 and it easily runs 5ghz at nice temps. Bottlenecks? pffft!
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It reaches parity, there's a difference, they both pretty much get to the GPU bottleneck in those games, although you get some iffy results with Crysis 3.
Also, have you ever seen low resolution benchmarks with BF3? The FX chips don't out perform the Intels, and that's when the onus is generally on the CPU.

The FX8320 is very good price/performance however, but the FX9's aren't, nor are they suitable for a 7970 Crossfire.

Go get two set ups, a maxed out 4770K and a maxed out FX9590 with two 7970's at 1920x1080 on a 120HZ monitor, run 100 games from the 2012-2013, the FX system is coming up trumps.

Like I say, LT Matt with his older and cheaper system will out bench OP all day long, and if people don't see that as a problem, then logic's gone out of the window.

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Tho i will admit tho i duno what that cpu he has is like per say but with a pair of 7970s in xfire or whatever he has, he better have a good cpu to pair with first. Otherwise its a bit of a shame spending all that money when ok yes gpus are important but cpu is still important at least i would rate cpu always the first thing to look at upgrading before a gpu solution. But thats me.
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Which is why I mention it. I'm not saying it's the OP's problem, but it's certainly something to look at for getting the most out of the set up.
 
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depends if there is difference in practice and with a good amd cpu like the 8320 there shouldnt be in actual gaming.

crossfire as any dual solution can be tricky sometimes.
 
Be sure to check gpu usage while benching.
I have roughly the same setup and do notice poorly optimized games for 8 cores but benching does get high gpu usage on both cards.
 
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Also if u can do some screenshots of the stuff i mentioned a page or so back. Like from gpuz etc. Use imageshack for a place to host ur pictures.
 
Heaven shouldn't be showing any bottleneck. It should give you a pretty constant 99% GPU usage, if it doesn't look towards your drivers.
A Titan on a Pentium gets like almost no hit on Heaven it's that GPU limited, and a Titan with a pentium is a MASSIVE bottleneck.
 
Should have just did prnt screen next to F12 key. Then used infranview or somit to paste in and then save the image and then uploaded it to imageshack.
 
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