Crossfire ?

[Mal X]

1......is Crossfire not as reliable as a single card and will every game recognise crossfire automatically ?

2....why do we have SLI and Crossfire what's the difference ?

3....i'm interested in the 7950 Crossfire, does anybody have this set up ?

thanks

 

[Mal X]

i'm on 1080p, but i'm after max FPS

 

[Mal X]

Strange.. My 6950's balance the load betweent them.

Anyway, next upgrade time i wont be getting crossfire, not worth the expense and effort. IMO buy the fastest single card you can afford...

yea i thought someone would say this I've read this a lot too, unreliability is something i hate, i like to turn on the pc and get swallowed up by my sofa and not have to move for another 5 hours !

 

[Mal X]

THE 7950 becomes very interesting if it drops in price even further, even right now the price seems ok !!!!

 

[Mal X]

I think 7950 crossfire already offers unrivalled performance for around £600. You won't get any better. The sad thing is, the only real downside of a 7950 crossfire set up is AMD's notorious ability to scuff people up with poor drivers. I have to admit I've not had an issue with them myself historically but the notoriety is there for a reason

Enough VRAM for future proofing - check
Enough performance with one card if all else fails - check
Excellent crossfire scaling - check

If I was going to spend £600 ish when I upgraded it would have been a no brainer.

Edit: Not with this motherboard obviously

what MOBO ? oh that's ok i thought you had the same as me.... yes i almost brought two 7950s yesterday, these cards are perfect for me and will be for ages yet, but i'm not 100% happy at the words ``poor drivers and not 100% reliable``

the best ones to get are if the 680s drop to this very same price, but this wont happen because 320 quid is too far to fall, plus the 7950 is only this cheap because they aren't as powerful as the 7970, therefore not as attractive to buy

 

[Mal X]

Your motherboard is fine. Mine caps PCIE-2 slot to x4 which from what I've read will exacerbate any microstutter. So I'll need to upgrade it if I do go SLI with my 680.

with mine i've lost some stuff, i've lost the crossfire bridge, but there is some good news, i found the Magahalems cpu paste from 3 years ago..... hell yea'

now this bothers me, because this paste is dense and heavy, but the gold Koenig is wet and runny and this is the same stuff that spilt out and wrecked my old rig, it looks like i'm going to be removing my cooler again; doesn't it !!!

the good thing about my rig is i have no old drivers in it, it's all fresh and new, but my old rig has all the old drivers going back over 6 years, i could never delete them... never

 

[Mal X]

EDIT: What do you mean by 'lapped' with your 2500k?

it's ground and polished to a mirror finish, as is the base of the cooler.. OCs used to do this 5 years ago

but dont do this yourself, because i regret doing it, it's too easy to get **** on the other side of the CPU, it cleans off easily, but it's still quite scary, finally you loose your guarantee if the CPU doesn't work.

lapping the cooler is easy, no worries here, unless it slips and the fins cut you !

when both are lapped, i can lift the MOBO up without bolting it to the CPU, the suction is increadible, but lets hope it still works