how does crossfire work ?

[wozie]

looking to crossfire 2x5850 cards in the future now being a tight git i was wondering if you can turn on the second card in the catalyst control center play your game then turn it of after playing the game thus saving power and reducing my electric bill ? is this how it works or do you just leave it running ?
cheers all

 

[wozie]

thanks for the info looking to get another card just to tide me over for a while until new cards are out

 

[wozie]

not really bought a bog standard sapphire model when first came out its a good card plays all my games at top rez only reason thinking 2nd card as the new bf3 and newer titles coming out that was all will prob be gettin new mobo and cpu and mem later on when the new intel ones come out runnin a intel q6600 at mo so should be better and like the 6gb sata ports for a newer ssd drive as well

 

[wozie]

nah left it alone at stock speeds like seems to chug along ok tech is certainly mooving at good speeds compared to years ago and graphics are getting the wow factor cant wait for bf3 looks good

 

[wozie]

got to say you have done good overclocks though,and it runs stable as well ?

 

[wozie]

software for crossfire is maturing though although there does seem to still be problems !

 

[wozie]

cheers will do thanks