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Crossfire Question
- Thread starter Nikumba
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Crossfire will give you around 80-95% extra fps in games that are supported / have profiles.
The good bit is the increase in fps.
The bad bits are :
Micro-stuttering, which you might or might not notice.
Newly released games not always supporting crossfire out-the-box & needing to wait on a profile from AMD, which can take a while at times.
Negative crossfire scaling, where you get lower fps with 2 cards than with one. This doesn't happen too often though.
List the games you're playing atm so others can give feedback on how well they work with crossfire, as quite a few here run 2 x AMD cards.
And make sure your PSU is at least 600w as well, depending on other componets, cpu overclock, etc...
The good bit is the increase in fps.
The bad bits are :
Micro-stuttering, which you might or might not notice.
Newly released games not always supporting crossfire out-the-box & needing to wait on a profile from AMD, which can take a while at times.
Negative crossfire scaling, where you get lower fps with 2 cards than with one. This doesn't happen too often though.
List the games you're playing atm so others can give feedback on how well they work with crossfire, as quite a few here run 2 x AMD cards.
And make sure your PSU is at least 600w as well, depending on other componets, cpu overclock, etc...
Soldato
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^ +1
with a 1GB card you are going to be a bit limited to how much extra oomph another GPU can give you
in games where you aren't VRAM limited, 6870 crossfire should run better than say a 7870 or even a 7950, however at maximum settings, something like Battlefield 3 will burst that limit and you'll get really bad stuttering and FPS dips
I would look to sell the 6870 and get a newer, bigger VRAM single card personally
with a 1GB card you are going to be a bit limited to how much extra oomph another GPU can give you
in games where you aren't VRAM limited, 6870 crossfire should run better than say a 7870 or even a 7950, however at maximum settings, something like Battlefield 3 will burst that limit and you'll get really bad stuttering and FPS dips
I would look to sell the 6870 and get a newer, bigger VRAM single card personally