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11/7/12 at 7:07am
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Well I'm running my decent quality graphics card at 1Ghz right now in single mode. Took out my 2nd card cause BF3 went berserk on me and decided to give crap performance with crossfire enabled.
25% usage per card(average).... and 20 fps's at the lowest settings possible.
So I said screw it and took off the card.
I'm thinking of selling it for arround 90 euros/80pounds... Dunno if it's a good price or even if I should go back to single card.
I just hate that this all started cause I noticed that the graphics settings were in auto and I decided to change them to High with the max FOV.
After doing the change I lost all the performance I had.
I'm currently running all High with some Ultra and having no sort of slowdown's or issues with my 6850 at 1Ghz/1100Mhz.

Sell both your HD 6850s and you can easily get a HD 7950 which will perform very well. With 12.11b HD 7950 kills BF3 and at 1.2+ Ghz outruns GTX 680 (1.3 Ghz). Always go for a good single GPU. multi GPU is only at the high end with GTX 680 SLI and HD 7970 CF where a single GPU can't go.
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11/7/12 at 6:09pm
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Well I'm running my decent quality graphics card at 1Ghz right now in single mode. Took out my 2nd card cause BF3 went berserk on me and decided to give crap performance with crossfire enabled.
25% usage per card(average).... and 20 fps's at the lowest settings possible.
So I said screw it and took off the card.
I'm thinking of selling it for arround 90 euros/80pounds... Dunno if it's a good price or even if I should go back to single card.
I just hate that this all started cause I noticed that the graphics settings were in auto and I decided to change them to High with the max FOV.
After doing the change I lost all the performance I had.
I'm currently running all High with some Ultra and having no sort of slowdown's or issues with my 6850 at 1Ghz/1100Mhz.

Sell both your HD 6850s and you can easily get a HD 7950 which will perform very well. With 12.11b HD 7950 kills BF3 and at 1.2+ Ghz outruns GTX 680 (1.3 Ghz). Always go for a good single GPU. multi GPU is only at the high end with GTX 680 SLI and HD 7970 CF where a single GPU can't go.
that's just like your opinion man
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11/7/12 at 6:30pm



So far so good. FPs barely hit anything lowere than high 60's while playing BF3. Most of the time it hovers in the triple digits.biggrin.gif
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11/7/12 at 8:26pm
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Well I'm running my decent quality graphics card at 1Ghz right now in single mode. Took out my 2nd card cause BF3 went berserk on me and decided to give crap performance with crossfire enabled.
25% usage per card(average).... and 20 fps's at the lowest settings possible.
So I said screw it and took off the card.
I'm thinking of selling it for arround 90 euros/80pounds... Dunno if it's a good price or even if I should go back to single card.
I just hate that this all started cause I noticed that the graphics settings were in auto and I decided to change them to High with the max FOV.
After doing the change I lost all the performance I had.
I'm currently running all High with some Ultra and having no sort of slowdown's or issues with my 6850 at 1Ghz/1100Mhz.

Sell both your HD 6850s and you can easily get a HD 7950 which will perform very well. With 12.11b HD 7950 kills BF3 and at 1.2+ Ghz outruns GTX 680 (1.3 Ghz). Always go for a good single GPU. multi GPU is only at the high end with GTX 680 SLI and HD 7970 CF where a single GPU can't go.
that's just like your opinion man

I agree. My cf 6850/6870 setup performs awesome per dollar versus a single gpu that cost 200 bucks. Then again thats just my opinion as well. I have also heard the 777o's x-fired perform excellent as well. It's just personal preference like most things....
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11/7/12 at 8:33pm
You can include me:I've got 2 Gigabyte HD 6870's
http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3663#ov



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Edited by AMOCO - 11/7/12 at 8:36pm
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11/8/12 at 4:10am
These card's were running perfectly together and I had found a stable overclock for both of them in crossfire... 900/1050.
But as soon as I decided to change the graphics settings the performance in BF3 got choppy, each card was being used by 25% only and giving me 30fps with dips to 10 with every setting in the game, from low to ultra it always did this.

I'm tired of troubleshooting them but I decided to try and see what happened with single OC'ed to the top vs crossfire stock, I was amazed that my single card is able to keep me above 60 fps in bf3 most of the time and when it lowers it isnt noticeable...
Anyway I really plan on getting a job soon cause a friend of mine talked with some people to open up a spot for me, gonna wait and hop to the 8970 single card thumb.gif

Edit: I do not regret going crossfire, I regret having the bad luck I had and get a crap card that needs volts to OC above stock, and it's voltage locked in almost everything.
Performance wise, I got the performance of a GTX580 that was worth 600 euros in my country for only 300 euros.


The minimum framerate on Heaven Benchmark 3.0 is equal in crossfire or single. thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif
Edited by Tokkan - 11/8/12 at 9:45am
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11/9/12 at 3:27pm
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So far so good. FPs barely hit anything lowere than high 60's while playing BF3. Most of the time it hovers in the triple digits.biggrin.gif

DUDE! i love that colour scheme! it fits so well! Nice job! Atm, ive only got one 6850 Double Dissapation from XFX, and im not sure whether to buy another one and xfire, or upgrade to a 660, 660ti, 7850.
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So far so good. FPs barely hit anything lowere than high 60's while playing BF3. Most of the time it hovers in the triple digits.biggrin.gif

DUDE! i love that colour scheme! it fits so well! Nice job! Atm, ive only got one 6850 Double Dissapation from XFX, and im not sure whether to buy another one and xfire, or upgrade to a 660, 660ti, 7850.
I would go for a 7850 because the 8000 series will be out soon. So the 7000 series will have a price drop when the 8000's are released so you can get a second card soon for a good price and xfire goodness!
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11/13/12 at 2:17pm
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DUDE! i love that colour scheme! it fits so well! Nice job! Atm, ive only got one 6850 Double Dissapation from XFX, and im not sure whether to buy another one and xfire, or upgrade to a 660, 660ti, 7850.


Thanks.thumb.gif


The 1GB limit would probably be a factor if you want to future proof your gaming. If you can get one cheap (90-100) then sure why not.

If I had the money id go for something newer and with more memory.


I only use lower resolutions so I can game on ultra settings and be fine, but if your running higher res on 120hz monitors/tv's i say upgrade.wink.gif
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