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Thanks for your replies, I was out being fat and getting kfc lul.
Sadly, It's not the first time or the last time I've suffered hardware/software problems with AMD and understandable since you pay less over Nivida to get AMD gear.
While I've had my fair share of N and AMD cards, I can safetly say I've had far less issues software wise with N over AMD far to much that am really really really set on packing it up and not going back ever, Now that might sound like I just got a bad card or am blaming such and such but I've been into the GPU market for 6 years so overall I can happily say am done with them.
Anyway, As far as I see in terms of comments.
Go for 2 x 970, Overclock the roof off them and most likely get more preformace/stable than what I have at the moment. Am very happy with that and I can finally stop smashing my screens apart everytime I get a flicker, Crash, Stall, Bluescreen, Stutter, Bad FPS etc etc.
Sadly, It's not the first time or the last time I've suffered hardware/software problems with AMD and understandable since you pay less over Nivida to get AMD gear.
While I've had my fair share of N and AMD cards, I can safetly say I've had far less issues software wise with N over AMD far to much that am really really really set on packing it up and not going back ever, Now that might sound like I just got a bad card or am blaming such and such but I've been into the GPU market for 6 years so overall I can happily say am done with them.
Anyway, As far as I see in terms of comments.
Go for 2 x 970, Overclock the roof off them and most likely get more preformace/stable than what I have at the moment. Am very happy with that and I can finally stop smashing my screens apart everytime I get a flicker, Crash, Stall, Bluescreen, Stutter, Bad FPS etc etc.
In vast of majority games you do see benefits with 3-Way CrossFireX and im talking from experience.
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Im talking about the nvidia drivers
. Getting some driver stopped responding errors every now and then when playing Dota 2 and BLTPS
I am in the same boat, switch from nvidia series cards 660ti, to a 290x, had been with nvidia since 260's no really crashes or stability issues, since I had the 290x I have had many driver, game and mouse corruption problems.
Funny thing is since I sold my 290x this weekend and I am currently running on the Internal intel HD4600 on the 4790k no crashes or stability issues.
I just ran the gpu driver cleaner to remove all traces of ATI and will in the morning driver over to OCUK and grab a 970.
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What on earth are you guys doing?
Is QC/drivers etc really that bad or is this a pebcak thing? I don't get any of this stuff going on.
Is QC/drivers etc really that bad or is this a pebcak thing? I don't get any of this stuff going on.
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It's hard to see the forest for the trees with driver feedback but the best way to describe them would be to compare it to that of an end of term report. Not to be taken too seriously but true enough
Nvidia: Very attentive, few areas that need addressing but stable. Keeps to himself, doesn't speak out with his ideas.
AMD: Needs to try harder, good intentions but keeps trying to impress his class mates. Has presented some very good ideas to the table during team exercises, but with poor follow-through
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I'll agree with that to a degree.
You do often need to fiddle a bit with AMD (more so in multicard situations) and it isn't for everyone.
You do often need to fiddle a bit with AMD (more so in multicard situations) and it isn't for everyone.
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What monitor do you have?
If it's only a 60Hz monitor, why are you making your computer run the game at 150fps when your monitor can only display a maximum of 60? It just stresses out the components for no reason. Try enabling v-sync if you don't have it enabled already. Sounds like something in your system possibly overheated causing the artifacting/reboot. What temps are you hitting whilst gaming?
150fps is on one screen, For testing reasons. Then I set up my screens for this.
Then FPS matters :3
Also V-sync and AMD cards dont like each other anymore. Removing V-sync increases power.
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What do you mean by increases power?
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Yeah, that's what I thought he meant, but you never know 
It still wouldn't explain why it's a problem.
It still wouldn't explain why it's a problem.
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This was solved a while ago afaik.
Just to clarify; does it happen in all games, does it happen only with trifire/xfire (or only on multiscreen) and are you using 14.9 drivers?
ED: Just tried Tomb Raider, Crysis 3 and BF4 with vysnc using trifire and the sound is perfectly fine.
Our systems aren't identical, yet yours should work pretty much the same.
Can you post a pic of your Afterburner settings please?
Just to clarify; does it happen in all games, does it happen only with trifire/xfire (or only on multiscreen) and are you using 14.9 drivers?
ED: Just tried Tomb Raider, Crysis 3 and BF4 with vysnc using trifire and the sound is perfectly fine.
Our systems aren't identical, yet yours should work pretty much the same.
Can you post a pic of your Afterburner settings please?
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I don't overclock anything FYI, So afterburner settings would just be standard.
It only happens in some games like alien etc. I have the latest beta drivers but this has happen a lot on AMD cards. Nivida, Never EVER had this issue before so you can only blame the GPU. It's the only thing that changed.
Sometimes when I run games in window mode on my AMD, Sound goes bloody stupid, Tried everything. The last fix? Remove AMD and put nivida in, Problems gone so yea. Donno.
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You don't have to be overclocking to use afterburner.
Disable ULPS and tick enable unified gpu usage monitoring for starters and see if it changes anything.
If it's purely down to the cards, then why doesn't everyone have these problems?
ED: Just tried Alien with and without vsync using trifire on the profile that Matt told you to use in your last thread and it also works fine. I'll also note that at your res, just the 295x2 will be more than adequate.
Disable ULPS and tick enable unified gpu usage monitoring for starters and see if it changes anything.
If it's purely down to the cards, then why doesn't everyone have these problems?
ED: Just tried Alien with and without vsync using trifire on the profile that Matt told you to use in your last thread and it also works fine. I'll also note that at your res, just the 295x2 will be more than adequate.
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I have to agree with your experience with ATI and Nvidia. When I went crossfire 2 or 3 years ago I had numerous issues getting games to run well. Yet with SLI and 980's, I have had a very positive experience. Its of course not always perfect and the odd game has not run as well as it should, but overall it plays far nicer. And that's with brand new cards, so I'm sure things will only get better with newer drivers.