Looking to crossfire my one 6970 2gb card! Wondering if anything from my computer would hold back the performance. OS: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit Ram: 8192MB Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Processor (6 CPUs), ~ 3.3GHz (asus ms a99x evo) DirectX: DirectX 11 Power Supply is currently a 650 Watt! I know my motherboard has crossfire capability but would anything there be holding back the performance from the second card being crossfired? And I'm getting the second card for 150$ so I want something just to hold me off for another good year or so before picking myself up the 8xxx series cards.
I would say your PSU isint enough, even my old 850W wasnt enough for both cards + my CPU( which admittedly is heavy on juice )+ a few harddrives. Whats your mobo? I find these 2 6970's are a bit too heavy on the electricity and temps.
Considering I'll be paying only 150$ for the 6970 to crossfire, I don't want to pay 400$ after tax for a 7 series card when I can wait it out for the 8 series to come out near the end of this year. My initial question is if my hardware is enough to manage a crossfire. The mother boards a: asus ms a99x evo Real reason I want to crossfire is to pick up more FPS on the newer games out now!
i have a 1090t overclocked to 4.0 and it seems like it just doesnt have enough ooomph to push my two 6970's in crossfire in the games i play to notice much difference. your power supply definately needs to be better overclock cpu and make sure you play at very high resolutions with everything maxed
I'm a tad scared to overclock my stuff with the AMD vision center, only cause I don't know how much is enough or how much is too much for my system to handle. Any tips on that?
Simple answer don't do it just overclock the hell out of the 6970 my backup rig is a 940BE @3.6 with a "6970" @ 935/1400 1.15V and that CPU is a bottleneck in some games already. Add to that the crossfire drivers for the caymans leave a lot to be desired.
