Calling all multi-GPU owners

[Steves1982]

My experience with crossfire:

Plugged them both in
Installed drivers
Installed CAPs
Reboot
Double frame rates (card dependant)

It really is that simple unless you're unlucky.

 

[RedvGreen]

My experience with crossfire:

Plugged them both in
Installed drivers
Installed CAPs
Reboot
Double frame rates (card dependant)

It really is that simple unless you're unlucky.

Virtually what everyone should expect TBH. Only issue for me was when Left 4 Dead 2 came out, it took about 2 weeks for correct driver/XF support to be added. Main issue was umm... horrendous FPS (like <20FPS @ 1920x1200 Ultra/High).

 

[BaDBoY_uK]

Drivers / CF support takes a while. Live with it for double the performance when sorted

 

[tdream]

Crossfired 6950 = worthless. GTX580 = awesome, buttery smoothness

SLI 460gt's also worthless

Nothing is better than a single card for smoothness and ease of use.

Stuttering is inherent fact in dual gpus. A fact that has been acknowledged by AMD and Nvidia. Anyone who doesn't notice, I wish I had as bad vision as them.

The point of dual gpu is higher settings right? But higher settings = lower framerates = more visible stuttering.... = pointless = waste of money = waste of time = waste of electricity

 

[Si105]

Crossfire 6950 here. Has ran perfectly in every game i've tried. BF3, Skyrim, Dues EX, Crysis 2 etc.

I think most problems with multi-gpu setups are when new games come out and the drivers aren't up to scratch.

One thing to note is crossfired 6950's are annoyingly loud, but with some FPS capping you keep the fans pretty quiet. My installation of the two cards was a ballache though, wouldn't detect 2nd one, took hours to get it to detect it by unplugging replugging etc.

 

[systemerror]

I have 560 ti's in sli and they are fantastic, only thing I would do is make sure you go for the higher end cards not the mid range thats what I will be doing next time round.

 

[ThePengu1n]

Crossfired 6950 = worthless. GTX580 = awesome, buttery smoothness

SLI 460gt's also worthless

Nothing is better than a single card for smoothness and ease of use.

Stuttering is inherent fact in dual gpus. A fact that has been acknowledged by AMD and Nvidia. Anyone who doesn't notice, I wish I had as bad vision as them.

The point of dual gpu is higher settings right? But higher settings = lower framerates = more visible stuttering.... = pointless = waste of money = waste of time = waste of electricity

Lol, who ****ed on your cornflakes?

 

[BaDBoY_uK]

Crossfired 6950 = worthless. GTX580 = awesome, buttery smoothness

SLI 460gt's also worthless

Nothing is better than a single card for smoothness and ease of use.

Stuttering is inherent fact in dual gpus. A fact that has been acknowledged by AMD and Nvidia. Anyone who doesn't notice, I wish I had as bad vision as them.

The point of dual gpu is higher settings right? But higher settings = lower framerates = more visible stuttering.... = pointless = waste of money = waste of time = waste of electricity

Idiot response with poor grammar. You have probably caused your own issues from being stupid

 

[mjones1]

I had no problems with my CF5850's the performance boost was pretty nice , maybe because i don't play brand new games so never experience these poor profiles.

 

[MeMeMeMe]

One thing to note is crossfired 6950's are annoyingly loud, but with some FPS capping you keep the fans pretty quiet.

My TFIII's are very quiet, near silent, with an Afterburner profile to keep them under 50% fan speed when in idle.

As others have mentioned, new games may not have a proper CF profile for a week or longer. (Another reason to wait for steam sales!) Sometimes this causes issues, but usually you can still play the game and may not even notice CF isn't working until you start examining frame rates.