What's going on with Crossfire??

[Fuzz]

Can someone explain what's going on here cos I am a bit

Boot pc.
turn off adwatch and msn
open crysis test program
Run program
Open gpu-z
take screenie
open paint, paste, save and close
These are the results..

open Catalyst control centre scroll down to crossfire and tick box.
Wait for it to make changes and OK

Run test program again
Open gpu-z
take screenie
open paint paste and save
These are the results.

Erm bit lost tbh

 

[Fuzz]

I was more worried about the fact that the FPS DECREASED, when crossfire was turned on.
Why would telling you what the CPU is help?
Fair enough if you were just looking at the original FPS and thought it was low though, I wasn't sure to be honest, everyone keeps telling me the 1950's are crap.

Am on the laptop at the mo so will update the spec of what the thing is running when I get up out of my pit.

Will look also look into the 16 - 8 pci-e issue as well, I didn't notice that.
It is indeed a 975 M/B (intel badaxe rev1 I think)

 

[Fuzz]

Ok, woken up a bit now, booted the pc as per norm and this is what it's running.

 

[Fuzz]

very little difference between having it crossfired or not.

Had a look in the boot menu to find I cannot adjust the 8x/16x

Not looked at updating drivers yet, will do that now.

 

[Fuzz]

Indeed sir...

we now have the following..

whole screen grabs with all the info I can think of, so I'll link them instead of having the image.

Non crossfired test results

Crossfired test results


Does that look more like the performance I should be getting now.
At least now when utilising the second card it actually makes a difference.

 

[Fuzz]

It wasn't