I picked up a gigabyte windforce 290 to go along with my Xfx reference 290 I have not had a whole lot of time to play and test with it I noticed titanfall was all over the place and crashing... I play wow bf4 titanfall bf3 dayz just to name a few and I do play on an eyefinity set up so I would actually benifeit from crossfire. Also I thought stuttering and some other issues where resolved by ridding the crossfire bridge? Help me make a decision guys keep the gagabyte 290 as a solo card or dive into watercooling the pair? I would just like to hear your experience with crossfireing this generation of cards.
I know that I can crossfire the two different brands of Cards I am really asking if it's worth it and if they have cleared up a lot of the kinks? However I am running a 4770k @ 4.2 cooled by an h220 8gb of vengeance ram an RM 750 on a MSI MPower board.
I know that I can crossfire the two different brands of Cards I am really asking if it's worth it and if they have cleared up a lot of the kinks? However I am running a 4770k @ 4.2 cooled by an h220 8gb of vengeance ram an RM 750 on a MSI MPower board.
I have quad crossfired every gen of AMD cards since 2007
I have followed the development of crossfire (I am currently doing 4 x R290X MSI) and from the 5000 series the results have been excellent. you want to run a higher res of course (or be big on benchmarks) but I get good scaling to all four cards.
That's my 2 cents
If you want to know more about my experience with crossfire feel free to ask. But I thoroughly enjoy the results I get.
I know that I can crossfire the two different brands of Cards I am really asking if it's worth it and if they have cleared up a lot of the kinks? However I am running a 4770k @ 4.2 cooled by an h220 8gb of vengeance ram an RM 750 on a MSI MPower board.
I am running a MSI R9 290 and a Sapphire R9 290 and it was a pretty good leap in performance, running with an i5 at 4.5ghz but the drivers right now are alittle iffy with mixed results for people. Mostly talking about bf4 but the 13.12 seems to work for most (Running myself 14.3 without problem)
I know that I can crossfire the two different brands of Cards I am really asking if it's worth it and if they have cleared up a lot of the kinks? However I am running a 4770k @ 4.2 cooled by an h220 8gb of vengeance ram an RM 750 on a MSI MPower board.
i've done both (eyeinfinity and crossfire) but separately. even with just 2 monitors it was a pain but it was my first time. you miss a step and you'll end up clearing the cmos. crossfire, otoh, was a breeze for me. did not even have to reinstall driver and all the games i played supported multi-gpu.
now, combining both and the possible issues that go with them outweighing the goodness ask Red or wermad.
edit: BTW, that 750W is a railing on the egde of a cliff.
I picked up a gigabyte windforce 290 to go along with my Xfx reference 290 I have not had a whole lot of time to play and test with it I noticed titanfall was all over the place and crashing... I play wow bf4 titanfall bf3 dayz just to name a few and I do play on an eyefinity set up so I would actually benifeit from crossfire. Also I thought stuttering and some other issues where resolved by ridding the crossfire bridge? Help me make a decision guys keep the gagabyte 290 as a solo card or dive into watercooling the pair? I would just like to hear your experience with crossfireing this generation of cards.
Personally, I'm waiting for a single card that will drive my eyefinity setup comfortably. Crossfire has been a hassle causing issues in quite a few games I play even though they technically support crossfire. Titanfall for instance will not run properly with crossfire enabled. You are not alone on those issues, and with my 7970 crossfire I get artifacting so bad that there's no resemblance of it even being a video game, more like static on a old TV.
I would suggest running a single 290 and try it as my rig has been able to run 5760x1080 on a single 7970 on high settings in most games. I think the days of crossfire being a requirement for eyefinity are pretty much over.
I have an Hz 850 I'm waiting to get back from rma if I decide to keep this set up I'll replace the RM750 with the HX850 I should be fine with the 850 even overclocked right? And thanks everyone I appreciate the input.
I have an Hz 850 I'm waiting to get back from rma if I decide to keep this set up I'll replace the RM750 with the HX850 I should be fine with the 850 even overclocked right? And thanks everyone I appreciate the input.
I have an Hz 850 I'm waiting to get back from rma if I decide to keep this set up I'll replace the RM750 with the HX850 I should be fine with the 850 even overclocked right? And thanks everyone I appreciate the input.
First Titanfall is a mess so don't expect it to be optimized.
BF4 is better still not as good as some though. Its beneficial but not as much as I want it to.
Now games like Last Light and Infinite, that's where you see the real difference.
I play on 3 x 1080p monitors so I too need the extra help.
Though with crossfire and eyefinity you get ALOT of issues you have to troubleshoot, ULPS. Powerplay blah blah blah.
Now the choice between having a solo card and dual cards is always up to you. Me i like the performance boost so i'll keep them but if you find it annoying and have to spend more time sorting it out then just watercool one card
Furmark is by no means a performance tester, more like a GPU killer. I'v seen my VRMs shoot past 90°C and keep climbing and they never break 60°C under gaming loads. Its a very crappy program with the only purpose of making your system overheat. It really has no usefull information to offer from using it because any temps you get are way higher than anything you will ever see in real uses, and system stability of a GPU/VRAM overclock is best done with games. Anyone recommending Furmark as a "useful tool" on OCN should have their butt kicked.
If you want to test performance try running a benchmark like 3dMark or Unigine Heaven / valley. Both are free for the standard tests and are leaps and bounds better than furmark for determining performance and operating temps of your system.
The version of 3DMark I've seen only comes with 720p modes for free. the "Extreme", or 1080p mode, seems to require to actually purchase their software.
Now that I know FurMark is garbage, I will burn anyone who uses it at the stake. No quarter will be given to anyone.
The version of 3DMark I've seen only comes with 720p modes for free. the "Extreme", or 1080p mode, seems to require to actually purchase their software.
Now that I know FurMark is garbage, I will burn anyone who uses it at the stake. No quarter will be given to anyone.
The 720P test is the one most benchmark sites uses anyway, and the one I use for comparing scores.
There's also a new one just called "3dMark" that came out last year. It can be downloaded for free on Steam, its listed as a "demo" which is also limited but again it's the standard setting used on most benchmark reviews. LINK
The 720P test is the one most benchmark sites uses anyway, and the one I use for comparing scores.
There's also a new one just called "3dMark" that came out last year. It can be downloaded for free on Steam, its listed as a "demo" which is also limited but again it's the standard setting used on most benchmark reviews. LINK
Thanks, I'll give that a shot and report back. I'll test single card, then throw the other card back in there. I'll be comparing it to whatever The Beast ends up scoring for comparison.
On my current main sig rig, I run TWO 6970s in xFire. Right now I'm running a single card to diagnose what I feel is a "lack in performance", which certainly isn't being caused by my CPU that handles everything nicely at 4.5GHz.
Some folks will tell you that the 5870 was one of the best cards ATI ever pumped out, I'm inclined to agree, and I bet in an xFire scenario, they would still perform well by today's standards.
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