my first xfire experience

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well picked up yet another 280x tonight (god these things are so cheap second hand atm) and decided to give xfire a quick first attempt.


was filled with fear and thoughts of major driver conflicts and games just generally not wanting to play.


after an initial bit of head scratching after my brilliant plans backfired I was up and running.


I had a pair of 280xs over 2 rigs one sapphire vapour X in my rig and a MSI gaming edition 280x.


so anyway I managed to pick up a second MSI card and had the great plan to lob the sapphire into my daughters rig and put the matching msi cards into mine in xfire.

well that was problem no 1 the sapphire is a triple slot number and didn't want to fit into my daughters SFF case

so I ended up with what I was convinced was a non starter a mixed bag of
280xs.

long story short threw the msi into my rig turned it on and hey presto everything works straight away, no driver conflicts no issues and everything I've tried so far seems to run fantastic.


World of tanks at full details has went from mid 40 fps to 75-80fps which is the main thing I play apart from FM so very very happy, but its not just numbers, the whole thing just looks so much smoother.

going to have to try a few other games to make sure everythings fine but seemed to be very straightforward and working out the box is always a bonus


now just to find yet another MSI or another Sapphire

 

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quite happy with the way its turned out


currently scouring the MM for yet another 280x to add to the collection, ideally I can find a sapphire and end up with 2 xfire setups one for mine and one for my boys rig

 

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need a little mobo upgrade next poor little Z77 that I currently have doesn't have room for a third 280

 

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Enjoy Crossfire is very good..

if it keeps working as happily as this I can see this getting addictive and very expensive.

 

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Curious, do you get a lot of texture flicker in WOT? As far as I was last aware, crossfire isn't supported in the game and the only way to get it to work is using AFR mode which casues bad texture flicker.

works a charm no flickering with all details maxed nudging 80fps

Out of interest what CPU do you have?

mildly overclocked 2600k that i've been threatening to replace every new intel release for the last 3 years but at 4.4ghz theres nothing to tempt me