Help needed with 2 Asus 6970's Crossfire

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Mazaka151

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So I did the heaven 2.1 benchmark with 8xAA and the PowerColor variant apparently averaged a mighty 110.4 while I only reached 45.7 on my gear? I don't know what's the bottleneck of this setup and I also seem to have a bit of a problem with GTA IV and EFLC, I can't crank up the settings up from minimum because it claims that I have no video memory left, help would be greatly appreciated
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Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850

Motherboard: Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi-AP Edition

Graphics Card: Asus AMD HD Radeon 6970 Crossfire 2 Cards

Memory: 8 GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1333MHz

Cooling: Fan Cooling

Power Supply: Nexus 1000w

Sound Card: Removed

Monitor: Acer 24'' 1920x1200

Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
 
I also seem to have some trouble with Crysis, at the start it loads up to 14% then either gets stuck or skips to ''complete, ready to go'' and then I do not see the place or the rest of the team I just fall down and I'm also unable to move so I get stuck on the water with the nanosuit malfunctioning, anyone has had these problems with 2 6970's?
 
Could be aoftware problem. Try reinstalling windows again cuz i got this problem when i installed my two 580s. Im not sure if this is your problem you should wait and listen to other ppl.
 
This is even worse than my old single 4890, money thrown right into the bin, I won't even get over 100 frames on average with lowest possible settings in Heaven 2.1, there's gotta be a serious bottleneck here, the only thing that works and gets boosted by this is Just Cause 2, every other game either doesn't run at all or are slower than before
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Yup it is very old, tho steam decided finally that there was a patch for Crysis and it worked out after that, just so you know the board does support crossfire and 2 x16 cards but only the main lane is x16 the other is universal that works in x1, x2 and x4 modes I think, do you think that could be the bottleneck? and what do you think about my processor?, I mean it is 4 cores @ 3.00 GHz but it's somewhat old too, I tried disabling the crossfire and GTA IV then recognized the true amount of video memory in one card but still wouldn't launch to actual gameplay
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, so the situation now is that Crysis runs better maxed out than some old ass games that don't require much at all
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Isn't there also a performance patch for GTA4 ?

not sue if this is related to the poor performance you get but maybe it helps...

Maybe i am mistaking it with something else if so my bad !!
 
I have the steam versions of the game so they're automatically patched, it's not about actual performance I can't get ingame nor can I set the settings with crossfire due to false detection of actual video memory
 
hi,

eww, very bad news. updating motherboard component drivers help, like chipset, sata controller etc. i look about, about your situ

in steam verify the game files in the properties, it'll download any missing files
 
I'm running Crysis fully maxed out 1920x1200 and I don't see any kind of difference between 0x and 8x anti aliasing modes FPS wise, does this mean it's bottlenecking it and I have to buy a new motherboard? In Crysis I'm getting like 35-45 FPS sometimes down to 25 and sometimes over 60 depending on the scene
 
It seems like 70% of my games are not working with this setup and the performance is way too low, I'm guessing I have no choice but to get some new components
 
i ran GTA4 on a basic core 2 duo @2.6Ghz with the NVIDIA GTS 250, it worked well and didn't produce a good frame rate ofc. memory system worked properly.

Can you exchange your cards?

I reccomend you use NVIDIA. The MSI 480 is about £258 at SCAN and the 570 is a little more. You thought about upgrading your PC, I think you should start with the GPU's if you can exchange them and the 580's will last so if it takes a year or two to upgrade the other stuff those 580's will satisfy the other components, i rekon

NVIDIA do alot to make their stuff work properly with games, they help the game developers alot, it's beautiful
 
No I can't but looks like the motherboard is a complete failure when it comes to this setup, I have no benefit from crossfire what so ever, I actually think it runs a little bit better with the crossfire disabled, looks like I have no choice here but to get a new motherboard, any recommendations?
 
you've got ddr3 RAM I see. If you can put that in a P67 board go with new Intel sandybridge. I have a core 2 build, the RAM cost £40 and today OCUK sells it for £90 because it's old and rare apparently. Getting an old board for your Core 2 could be more expensive than a sandybridge build, or you get it cheap at ebay. A sandybridge CPU can be less than £200. It's a step in properly building your future
 
yes, better to put a K on the end of the processor model. the extra £50ish make the computer more future-proof, because you can make the processor run alot faster because its multiplier is unlocked look: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/inte...-bridge-quad-core-34-ghz-8mb-cache-95w-retail there is an OEM version that is cheaper. To be safe get the retail version as things like technical support might not be included with the OEM version. Check on it because I'm not sure

the extra £50ish make the computer more future-proof, because you can make the processor run alot faster because its multiplier is unlocked
 
Nice 2 x PCI-E x16 (x16) Crossfire support, DDR3 1333 LGA 1155 2nd Gen i7, looks like all the support I need
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, and this of course with the i7 2600k right?
 
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