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Crossfire help

Beerbaron

Beerbaron

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I have an XFX Radeon HD6950 flashed to 6970. If my mate was to crossfire this with his HD6950 would this work or would I have reflash my card back to 6950?






Thanks.
 
Great thanks. I have never setup crossfire before so I assume its just connect the cards and the bridge and then enable crossfire in CCC.
 
Beerbaron said:
Great thanks. I have never setup crossfire before so I assume its just connect the cards and the bridge and then enable crossfire in CCC.
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Correct. Crossfire and frame pacing should enable themselves automatically once the drivers are installed, but check in CCC yourself just to be sure.
 
Beerbaron said:
I'm currently using 13.11 (didnt realise 13.12 beta was out :)) and assume hes probably using an older version.

So crossfiring will essentially double his GPU power? Is there any downside to this? He wants a cheap upgrade so I thought this was the best option.

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/inde...re=radeon-hd-6950-crossfire-vs-radeon-hd-6950


Thanks.
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It should do assuming the game in question supports crossfire. Only downside would be increased heat, power usage and possible noise depending on how good the cooling solution is on each card. If both cards dump heat in the case might be a good idea to have a exhaust fan or two on the side of the case. If both cards exhaust the heat out the rear of the case then this won't be an issue.
 
Beerbaron said:
BF3, Total War Rome 2, Civ 5, Fallout New vegas, and probably BF4 in Jan.
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All of those titles have good crossfire support apart from Total War Rome 2 which only has about 15-30% crossfire scaling, if that. Its just a buggy game so don't expect much improvement on that.
 
Beerbaron said:
Does that mean Rome will just look rubbish? Removal of the card is always an option :)
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No it just means the second card might not do much. If you find game performance worst with crossfire enable it just disable it before playing. Give it a shot and see how it goes. Image quality will not be affected regardless of crossfire. Crossfire only relates to pure fps performance and smoothness.
 
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