Tri-Fire AMD Brethren

[LtMatt]

Work on max settings not max fps with 3 cards, it will give smother gameplay and you won't have to overclock the CPU too high.

Did you see my 340FPS in Mantle at 1080P in BF4?

Invest in 4K what I'll be using with my 3 290's

I'm definitely going 4k, but not at the moment.

 

[Captain]

Did you see my 340FPS in Mantle at 1080P in BF4?



I'm definitely going 4k, but not at the moment.

Good i love mine!

Now I just need a way to fit all 3 cards into my system.

 

[LtMatt]

Results.

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290 TriFire Stock @975/1250
14.7 Drivers
Win 8.1

Firestrike

SCORE
20522 with AMD Radeon R9 290(3x) and CPU information missing
Graphics Score 30435
Physics Score 13547
Combined Score 7686

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/3785293

Firestrike Extreme

SCORE
11310 with AMD Radeon R9 290(3x) and CPU information missing
Graphics Score 13656
Physics Score 13582
Combined Score 4454

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/3785297

Sky Diver

SCORE
41283 with AMD Radeon R9 290(3x) and CPU information missing
Graphics Score 95324
Physics Score 12507
Combined Score 22928

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/3785301

3DMark11

SCORE
P24010 with AMD Radeon R9 290(3x) and CPU information missing
Graphics Score 38894
Physics Score 12041
Combined Score 10093

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/8611131

Heaven

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Valley

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Thief 1080P

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Thief 1440P

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I will do some BF4/PvZ benchmarks next.

 

[Kaapstad]

Try Sleeping Dogs @1440p that will give your cards some work to do.

 

[LtMatt]

Try Sleeping Dogs @1440p that will give your cards some work to do.

Yes i was hoping to test that, unfortunately steam will not let me run the benchmark in diagnostic mode. Same with Dirt showdown, Dirt3 and Sniper Elite V2.

 

[arc@css]

lol Tommy.

Nice fps, Matt.

 

[LtMatt]

lol Tommy.

Nice fps, Matt.

Thanks. I have to say TriFire has been a breeze. Plug and play. No issues at all so far.

 

[arc@css]

Thanks. I have to say TriFire has been a breeze. Plug and play. No issues at all so far.

I did it once, though in my case I couldn't get it to work properly. However, the simple truth was (PEPKAC).

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I hadn't connected the third gpu to the psu correctly.

Glad it's working all good for you, Mr.Lt.

 

[tayto_0]

Nice one Matt. I thought the Benchmark threads were unusually busy this evening

 

[LtMatt]

I did it once, though in my case I couldn't get it to work properly. However, the simple truth was (PEPKAC).

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I hadn't connected the third gpu to the psu correctly.

Glad it's working all good for you, Mr.Lt.

Nice one Matt. I thought the Benchmark threads were unusually busy this evening

Thanks Gents. TriFire gets two thumbs up from me. Even on my old Sandy setup getting good results, despite being a bit cpu bottlenecked in most things.

 

[tayto_0]

I won't be far behind you mate

 

[Mr. May]

Did you get rid of your beauty that is your rv01? :'(

Yes sold it to a friend and finally done dual loop

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Top two gpu's are within 1c of each other temp wise. Noctua fans doing a sterling job. Bottom gpu is about 4-5c cooler. Max temp 85c on top gpu, fan speed on top gpu around 58%. Pretty happy with that so far.

Few scores so far running stock 290's @975/1250.

Firestrike 30,300 gpu score
Heaven 3611 (forgot to turn off HT will try again)
firestrike EXT 13,700 gpu score
sky diver 94,500 gpu score

Will post screens and results once im finished. Valley next. So far very good, no issues.

So all three cards aren't running at the same temp?
Did you have to get both your cards running at the same temps before?
Different manufacturers, different temps, this trifire seems to have have brought out a slacker LtMatt!

My other worry with tri-fire, as someone else pointed out earlier, is that then it would be hard going back to anything less and I don't want to have to buy 3 cards every time they release a new generation of card!

 

[LtMatt]

So all three cards aren't running at the same temp?
Did you have to get both your cards running at the same temps before?
Different manufacturers, different temps, this trifire seems to have have brought out a slacker LtMatt!

My other worry with tri-fire, as someone else pointed out earlier, is that then it would be hard going back to anything less and I don't want to have to buy 3 cards every time they release a new generation of card!

Nah, they're not. I've switched them round again too, as I've put the lowest Asic card first as this allows me to undervolt by -0.056v and remain stable at 2d load. Low asic cards have the highest stock voltage, so it kind of makes sense. Top gpu is the hottest, 2 c hotter than gpu 2. Gpu 3 is a good 5-6 cooler than gpu 1 & 2. I'm happy thus far.

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Nah, they're not. I've switched them round again too, as I've put the lowest Asic card first as this allows me to undervolt by -0.056v and remain stable at 2d load. Low asic cards have the highest stock voltage, so it kind of makes sense. Top gpu is the hottest, 2 c hotter than gpu 2. Gpu 3 is a good 5-6 cooler than gpu 1 & 2. I'm happy thus far.

 

[tayto_0]

Interesting to see how well TRi-Fire 290s clock Matt. What's the weather like in Norwich at the moment? Hopefully there's a cold spell on the way so we can see how far you can push em.

 

[LtMatt]

Interesting to see how well TRi-Fire 290s clock Matt. What's the weather like in Norwich at the moment? Hopefully there's a cold spell on the way so we can see how far you can push em.

I'll need a new psu before i can do any extreme overclocking. Have about 200-300W to play with over three cards.

 

[tayto_0]

Yea if or when i go Tri-Fire i'm considering using 2 psus

 

[setter]

Yea if or when i go Tri-Fire i'm considering using 2 psus

Would you not be better of with one big beefy psu, say 1500w ono? Also, are there many cases that can accomodate two psu's.

 

[~Mike~]

Would you not be better of with one big beefy psu, say 1500w ono? Also, are there many cases that can accomodate two psu's.

Yours can.