Originally Posted by sting_rayz

I noted in the post that the cpu is at STOCK, hence 3.0, it hasn't been touched yet. I plan to do that in the coming days. And yes I know that is the bottleneck at the moment. I just wanted to post the initial results. I've only had this computer as a whole for a little over a month and 2 weeks of that has been waiting to get my raptor's back from WD rma. I finally got tired of waiting and installed the Intel ssd last friday. Give me some time and I'll get this thing cranked up and fully functional.

Originally Posted by sting_rayz

Ok after some crazy problems getting my rig running with these 5870's I finally got everything ironed out. For some reason when I uninstalled my 4870x2 drivers, then booted to safe mode and used driver sweeper I then powered down my computer, uninstalled the 4870x2 and installed just one 5870 as I wanted to do benches with 1 vs 2. My computer for some reason would not recognize my usb mouse and keyboard once it came to the windows 7 login screen. It took me a day to track down a ps/2 mouse and keyboard from the office. They worked, letting me login to windows and install the drivers. After benching with vantage I installed the second card and crossfired them, replugged my usb mouse and keyboard in and everything is working as normal now. Now for the bench results. The screenshot posted is with 2 cards in crossfire. My cpu and gpu are both at stock. Don't ask why I haven't OC my cpu yet, I've been busy and hope to get working on it this weekend.

Results: All results are 3dmark vantage scores at this time.

4870x2 l-l 5870 l-l 5870's CF
12079 l-l 12559 l-l 12514 l-l CPU Score
13283 l-l 14688 l-l 19116 l-l GPU Score
12960 l-l 14091 l-l 16888 l-l Total Score

I was suprised that the single 5870 scored better than the 4870x2 and a decent jump adding the second card. Will get back with more benches after I get some sleep.

Originally Posted by G|F.E.A.D|Killa

when its game time i tell my mom im going to go kill hookers and steal cars and kill cops... she says ok.

Originally Posted by [Teh Root]

you need to OC that baby more man, or get an i7 to take full advantage of those 5870's.

Originally Posted by rollinsoundz

+1 for 2 5870"s you really need a i7

Originally Posted by xxbassplayerxx

Did you reset CMOS or the BIOS in the progress? If so, the issue was probably in "Integrated Peripherals" in the BIOS. There's something called USB Keyboard Functionality (or something like that) which needs to be turned on. I had the same issue for a while then I finally figured it out.

Originally Posted by rollinsoundz

+1 for 2 5870"s you really need a i7

Originally Posted by Afrodisiac

This reminds me of the time I persuaded my little cousin to give me his 50 dollar bill in exchange for 2 5 dollar bills, by explaining to him that 2 bills > 1 bill.