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Issues with 3870X2

msaunders said:
In fairness , its a decent CPU so I cant see how its a bottleneck.

CPU= 333x9
FSB: 1333
RAM 800MHZ 4-4-4-12

rgds
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it seem from what i have read from other peoples encounters with this card that
the harder you push your quad north of 3.4 your 3dmarks score seems to go up in leaps because of the low res of the default settings.
 
daft question but does anyone else get a weird "corrupted" screen when switching to DX9 mode ?

ie game loading screen, crysis loading screen etc ?

its always a botched up version of whatever is on the desktop. So on Crysis it happens after you click on load in the menu, but before the "map loading" screen comes up

anyone else ? its only annoying not a problem
 
fornowagain said:
All it needs is the 2 earth pins shorting out with a clip/wire. It then opens the overdrive page.

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just join the two spare pins together..i choped up an old 6 pin connector and pluged that in with the wires joined it works a treat i now have overdrive..:D
 
msaunders,

Mine card is also reported in gpu-z as crossfire disabled, all redouts are exactly the same as in yoursu, only difference is card manufacturer, mine is his. Makes me wander what might it be, should crossfire be enabled, or is this vista driver issue, or possibly gpu-z issue.

any thoughts anyone ?
 
It wont say crossfire enabled becuase its not done through the drivers kind of. Its done on the onboard of the 3870X2. Reason it says crossfire not enabled.
 
jaykay, makes sence what you are saying, but how come there is thread where guy has posted pic of his config and it does say crossfire enabled?
Mind you , he is using older version of gpu-z and is running windows xp

have a look for yourself

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17835250&page=2

scroll down to almost end of the page.

whats right here then?

to be honest, so far i am dissapointed with the x2, performance and all that, we all say o great there is potential, and all that, but actuall performance is not there, i switched from 2900xt and i have not noticed any major improvements, or even ones worth mentioning. That drives me to conclusion, either i do not know how to get it running, or someone is taking a mickey outa all of us. Get the card finished and out, should not only mean get bits out, it should be get it working propperly. What if BMW sold you a car and said, well, you see its really great machine, but we just did not get gearbox quite ready yet, so use 3 gears just now till we make up another 2 or 3.

and we who are most into it and ones who are ready to spend money on their unfinished hardware get nothing but forums to discuss potential this card can, will or might have. They need to be regulated in some way, and they arenot, more or less both nvidia and ati/amd do what they want and wait for us sheep to go ahead with it. They act like we can not live without them, when reall fact is they can not exist without us.
 
Vekig

whats the rest of your spec of your PC ? you could be CPU limited.

I've noticed a big difference going from a 8800GTS 512MB, and thats quite a bit quicker than a 2900xt
 
the cpu factors a lot with this card and the benchmarks ,i got my amd 6400+ setup fps were good in games a big improvement on my 3850 but low scores in 3dmark06 then in my q6600@3200 the bench scores jumped by 5-10%
 
To get Crossfire to show as enabled you need TWO 3870X2 cards.

They don't show as enabled on their own as they work internally through Crossfire. All the motherboard sees is a single card.

And 15K is a good score. I get 14.5K with the same setup but only 2GB DDR2.
 
Tute said:
To get Crossfire to show as enabled you need TWO 3870X2 cards.

They don't show as enabled on their own as they work internally through Crossfire. All the motherboard sees is a single card.

And 15K is a good score. I get 14.5K with the same setup but only 2GB DDR2.
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I dont think so Tute... They chap who started THIS thread only has one 3870X2 and GPU-Z shows that crossfire is enabled in his setup as it detects the 2x GPU's

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9372/52584660vg4.jpg
 
Tute said:
To get Crossfire to show as enabled you need TWO 3870X2 cards.

They don't show as enabled on their own as they work internally through Crossfire. All the motherboard sees is a single card.

And 15K is a good score. I get 14.5K with the same setup but only 2GB DDR2.
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I'd go along with this, I'm not expecting Crossfire to show up as 'enabled' since I know from experience you have to have 2 cards.... I upgraded from a crossfire setup with 2x 2600XT's. When I can afford to I will be getting another 3870x2.. although I wil probably have to upgrade my PSU as I only have 2x 6 pin PCI-E power connectors lol, both in use atm.

Been reading about the GPU-Z utility so have just downloaded it, it shows 2 3870's but one is running at lower clocks... whats that about, shoudn't they run at the same ?

I've ran 3d Mark 06 and got a rather decent 16069.

cheers

Andrew
 
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