5850's in crossfire

[Skynet-T800]

Hi, never crossfired before and my new sapphire 5850 extreme will be with me tomorrow.

Bought this as will buid a new PC next year and hoping this will see me through with BF3!!

My current 5850 is pumping 60fps on high settings which i'm happy with so hopefully can get more detail with crossfire.

My main concern is heat will it be a lot hotter in there?

I've ordered more 80mm fans for my ageing wavemaster case so i'll see how it goes but what would be good software to monitor temps with?

I've got a crossfire bridge thing and my mobo supports x16 in 2 lanes so this I assume is good?

Any settings I need to worry about?

Also heard of CAP before? on this forum, whats that?

Cheers Paul

 

[ThePengu1n]

Yes, more cards = more heat, use MSI Afterburner to monitor the temps:

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm#

CAP's are Catalyst Application Profiles that improve crossfire performance in games, the latest version can be found directly below the latest drivers on the AMD website:

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx