ive gone and done it...
sick and tired of the waiting for the luminous panel, I had to get some enthusiasm for my system back
seeing the countless parts scattered around my room waiting to be installed i have finally cracked...
Crossfire: Round 2
I am not going all out on this yet. after the catastrophic failure that was my 4890 crossfire i have decided to take the 'suck it and see' approach.
i miss having two graphics cards, however the poor performance and shambolic driver support for my 4890s meant that i couldnt keep them.
i spend a lot of my day fixing other peoples problems so i like my own system to 'just work'. so this 5870 can stay on air cooling for the time being.
if i decide that i am happy with it then it will get a lovely acetal&nickel treat from EK waterblocks. if i see poor performance and problems then its going.
also, i plan on getting a revo drive. if i have crossfire 5870 cards then the double slot backplates will cover the only available slot for my sound card to go in.
weighing up the pros and cons at the moment. the single 5870 has served me well so the second has its work cut out.
also, i have underclocked my 980X @ 3GHz. i know this may sound stupid but my daft attempts at 5.5GHz benchmark runs have left the chip very unstable
at anything above stock. i am looking at Xeons at the moment to replace it but having never tried undervolting etc i have to say, i am very impressed.
running @ 3GHz which speedsteps down to 1.6GHz using 0.91v on full load.
memory at 2000MHz 8-7-7-20 1T
never goes above 40'c and performs on par with a 4GHz nehalem pulling much less from the wall.
, but the cost at the moment arrrrrgh the cost
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(iv seem a few systems with it but apparently it doesnt do much)
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