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Zero issues here with my crossfire setup nex as you know. My cards are no more than an inch apart and they both stay around 60c under full load. To keep temps there I have a custom fan profile seup in Afterburner with the fans never going above 60% speed. At that fan speed noise is hardly noticeable. And out of the hundreds of games I've played and the 10 or so modern titles I turn to today, Watch Dogs is the only one that's behaved like a bitch on multi cards setup in general. But I'll just say this, my Watch Dogs when running it maxed out (apart from 2xMSAA) performs really well, normally up at 50fps to 60fps where I've locked it. Sometimes it hicups and drops to low 40s but 95% of the time its around the 60fps mark. That to me isn't crossfire behaving badly.

There's nothing wrong with multi card setups these days, in fact I'll go this far...After running 2 cards for so long and experiencing the frames I do, I never want to go single card again. It would have to be massively powerful, but for that, the price tag IMO is disgusting. I mean who in their right mind would spend over a grand on a GPU. More money than sense.
 
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Fair enough points!

I guess the game compatibility "issues" with dual GPU setup isn't a problem these days then.

You guys probably have better cases/cooling setup than what I have though.

The PC will run hotter without a doubt though, whilst the temps might not be bad (if you have a good cooling setup), it is still exhausting all that extra heat so it is bad for my room especially with this weather atm! :p

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He lives in Northern Ireland, they only just got color TV's and 5 channels!
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That 290 on Today only does look very tempting. I did promise myself that if they dropped below £300 I would get myself one.

If you want to go Nivida at your resolution and want to max out games don't bother with anything less than a 780. some newer games (Wolfenstein and Watchdogs) won't run at max setting at 1080p on a card with 2Gb or less Vram. It is also worth considering that a 3Gb card may suffer the same issues further down the line.
 
Dot it sidey! DO IT NOW!!! :D

Yeah that is largely why I am back on the AMD side now, the 4GB VRAM will be more future proof.

I don't mind not being able to fully max out games and in fact some of the demanding settings i.e. motion blur and AA I turn of anyway (can't stand motion blur and I use sweetfx because it looks better with virtually no performance hit)
 
Well done Nex, I like the AMD stuff - think Nvidia missed a trick not making the 780 4GB.

No more BF4 on low anymore.
 
I think most of my settings for BF are on Medium to be fair - regardless of system power it still feels a bit sluggish when on Ultra/High.
 
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Well done Nex, I like the AMD stuff - think Nvidia missed a trick not making the 780 4GB.

No more BF4 on low anymore.
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Yeah it is a shame nvidia didn't go with 4GB or/and offered more games with their GPU's, if they had, I would have probably gone with the 780 over the 290!

Nope, will still keep everything set to low/off except for mesh detail :p Only way to play bf 4 MP :D

7850 is capable of running mostly high in bf 4 but for the same reasons as wndsr, I don't bother and plus you just get more clutter/stuff floating around on your screen which makes it harder to spot people!


Looking forward to getting this gpu (been holding of playing watch dogs and wolfenstein largely because my GPU wasn't up the task), hope it arrives tomorrow but probably won't arrive till Monday :(
 
it will arrive tomorrow if you paid top dollar for Saturday delivery

Now back on topic, any chance you can send me nexbot v17.1 mate? need to get some aircraft auto flying point and click kills mate
 
Yep you are well within the DPD dispatch time. So hopefully it will be with you by tomorrow, unless it takes them longer to ship to Ireland.

I'm more or less set on waiting for Maxwell / Pirate Island. To be honest it is not like my card is struggling as much as your 7850 is.

It seems that the riot shields have had a bit of a patch in CTE

 
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Chose royal mail special delivery instead of DPD as they don't deliver to ni over the weekend :(

I would like to have waited for the next lot but too many games coming out between then and now :(

Tony you can have them for £20 a month, sound good? :p
 
Hope I can get my jet on again tonight, enjoying it more but still finding it hard work.

Low settings, what is wrong with you people.
 
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Really need a new GPU but don't have a clue what to do! Finger hovering over the buy button for that MSI 290 atm but.... I want to give nvidia a try this time :(
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You will need a nvidia graphics card if you want to run G-Sync on that monitor.

The best thing about gsync is that FPS drops shouldn't feel as jarring. Anyone who has a 60hz monitor knows what it feels like when you get a drop to 30fps. Gsync is suppose to resolve that without the input lag which was apparent with V Sync - at least this is how I understand the technology.
 
I won't be getting that Asus monitor kiwi, just got the lg 29um65 which will do me for the next 2-3 years. I like the 21.9 aspect ratio too much as well so couldn't go back to 16.9/16.10 anyway.

The gsync/freesync thing does look really good though. Not a fan of the games built in vsync either.

Screen tearing is damn horrible though
 
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I won't be getting that Asus monitor kiwi, just got the lg 29um65 which will do me for the next 2-3 years. I like the 21.9 aspect ratio too much as well so couldn't go back to 16.9/16.10 anyway.

The gsync/freesync thing does look really good though. Not a fan of the games built in vsync either.

Screen tearing is damn horrible though
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Well you may want to go with AMD then. AMD were demoing freesync at computex however as far as I'm aware this was AMD specific. As freesync is part of a standard it is said that you may be able to get this as part of a driver update for AMD compatible cards. However the real question is if your monitor can run it.

Gsync does not work that way - so if you're not planning to upgrade your monitor any time soon then it may make sense to go with a 290X.
 
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