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My friend is badgering me to join him playing Planetside 2.

There is a positive to this.. he will donate his HD7770 to persuade me. Now this leads me to the penultimate question:

I am currently on a 6850 and it's Barts pro crunching is going strong. I could invest in a second hand 7770 and crossfire them (selling my 6850). Would this be able to crunch on the F@H projects, and has anyone had much success doing this?
 
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What about 2 x 7770 vs a 7850 though because he will get 2 7770's.
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;)

I could do a variety of options here however the two that stick so far are waiting for a reasonably priced second hand card to crop up (6850 or 7770) but in particular after some research - the 7770's consume less power and improve with the drivers as they are newer.

When I am not using the machine which is quite often due to work and having a 1yr old girl, I don't mind it crunching away - however I have no idea if crossfired cards can do this?

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I don't run X-fire so not sure, got another 7950 to go in my machine but haven't had the time to install it. I remember people saying they had to break the X-Fire for the client to crunch successfully although this may have changed.

Biffa or someone should be able to answer shortly :)
 
No it doesn't, I don't think you have to disable it anymore, but basically the Folding@Home app runs one GPU client for each slot you setup. And each slot aligns to each GPU you have installed.

Its the same if you had a 7990 even though CF is built into the card it still runs as two cards in Folding.
 
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