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Problems With Crossfiring

Havocide

Havocide

Havocide

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Ive got this motherboard..

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-259-AS

Which as far as I understood can support quadfire with ATI cards.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-171-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=168

So I got 4 of the above cards though I have the 512mb version. ON the box it says these cards support plug and play ati crossfire technology so all i should need to do is plug them in and off I go, but as far as i can see I dont see any real difference with them.

Maybe Ive set them up wrong or something?

As for other specs ive got the following.

Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 9850 Quad-Core Processor, MMX, 3DNow (4 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
Memory: 2560MB RAM (4gb)
1000w fan
 
I take it you've connected them up with the crossfire connectors, got the latest drivers and enabled Crossfire in the CCC? (Sorry for asking)

If you have, download 3dmark to test them. Do 1 card, then 2 etc.
 
zero-one said:
I take it you've connected them up with the crossfire connectors, got the latest drivers and enabled Crossfire in the CCC? (Sorry for asking)

If you have, download 3dmark to test them. Do 1 card, then 2 etc.
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Well I didnt connect the cables purely because I dont see where they could go. Ive only got the cables that came with the motherboard. Plus it says plug and play crossfire technology.
 
As far as I can tell those cards don't have Crossfire bridges on them, so all you should need to do is plug them all in and enable Crossfire in the drivers.

I take it you are using Vista by the way?
 
Does seem abit odd, depends there is different things different people want, for example some people might not be able to afford 4 high end cards so they decide to get 4 cheap cards adding up to a high end card so they can look inside there machine at that 1337 crossfire x setup. Then people who want performance would choose to spend the £120 on one card thats going to perform better.

Maybe he just does not play games?
 
This set up is actually better than my old set up, and thats all i care about. Im not a l33t gamer, I cant afford high end gaming cards x2 etc
 
Havocide said:
This set up is actually better than my old set up, and thats all i care about. Im not a l33t gamer, I cant afford high end gaming cards x2 etc
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What was your old setup?

£30 x 4 = £120, for that you could have got one 8800GT and it would be better, even a 3870XT would have, and you've then got less space in your pc and all that, if I was you i'd flog them on the bay for as much as you can get and get a single card that can do as good/better.
 
willhub said:
What was your old setup?

£30 x 4 = £120, for that you could have got one 8800GT and it would be better, even a 3870XT would have, and you've then got less space in your pc and all that, if I was you i'd flog them on the bay for as much as you can get and get a single card that can do as good/better.
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Yup, Havocide = fail.
 
cossfire scales diminishing returns as does sli, so 4 times X = poor return, also u only running on a pcie bus of 8 on all for cards.

i just dont see the resoning, unless u fell over the cards in the car park of your local retailer

Bowza
 
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