Sidegrade that upgrades?

gpuerrilla · 20 May 2013 at 21:32

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?

gpuerrilla · 21 May 2013 at 13:16

Voicon said:
What about 2 x 7770 vs a 7850 though because he will get 2 7770's.

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?

:confused:

gpuerrilla · 23 May 2013 at 23:59

Voicon said:
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.

Probably quicker to get round to it - but when you do update us please voicon.

gpuerrilla · 28 May 2013 at 21:04

Biffa said:
Two 7770's would beat a single 7850

Can crossfire work on the F@H client?

gpuerrilla · 29 May 2013 at 06:52

So it will fold on both cards, you just have to plug into the port on the spare card to activate it as a slot?

gpuerrilla · 29 May 2013 at 19:50

Biffa said:
Sorry lost me with the plugging into port bit.

Monitor into graphics card port

gpuerrilla · 30 May 2013 at 22:11

Biffa said:
no you don't need to plug a monitor or dummy plug in to each card for it to work.

OK so it will crunch on both cards independently?

gpuerrilla · 30 May 2013 at 23:32

Biffa said:
Yes if you setup two slots in the client.

Awesome, will see if it makes an impact then.