Hey Folks,
I just want to let you know, You dont actually need to crossfire or triple crossfire or quad crossfire, especially if your intention is to get good performances for single screen gaming.
You may see my signature for the stuff i purchased last march.
I thought having three Sapphire 6950 1GB in triple crossfire configuration would give me crazy performance. And yes it did!
But truth be told, I dont really need more than 60FPS in my games for one as my monitor's refresh rate is about 60hz at 1920x1080, So I experience screen-tearing and have to have the vsync=on, which means a waste of power.
So i had it downgraded to two cards in crossfire and everything was okay.
Just to let you know I had rather not invested in the ram, I had 4gb corsair vengence 1600 cl9 .. just one ddr3 dimm installed.
A few months later I said why not move on to higher ram and bought the dual 4GB corsair vengence kit.
And to my shock, I didnt invest where i had to really invest, Thats more ram.
As soon as it went to 12 GB of ram, everything.. loading, framerates.. playing experience almost doubled as so was the FPS and speed.
So i decided why not run it off one card and see, and now I'm actually running off just one 6950 1GB and the FPS is just a perfect 60FPS to match my v-sync on and 60HZ refresh rate of the monitor.
So the whole point is, You simply need max ram you can buy ... like 8gb 12gb or 16/32 GB.. Thats the biggest upgrade you need for gaming as it gives serious boost in loading and FPS. Just look at it as common sense, Most games are'nt more than 16GB on the disk, so if it can load all the data onto the ram thats plenty enough to hold all data.. Loading times and performance seriously improves!!
Now i just have a drawer under my desk with two 6950 1GB doing nothing.. As I'm getting all the performance just from one card and the 12 Gigs of ram.
I also noticed the benchmarks for CPU's n GPU's posted by overclock3d are mostly done on a single 4gb DDR stick, Its not actually the performance you'd get if you run it on say 16GB DDR's.
So i think admin needs to seriously re-do his reviews with no less than 8GB or 16GB of ram in his benchmarks.
Good Day!
Nick
I just want to let you know, You dont actually need to crossfire or triple crossfire or quad crossfire, especially if your intention is to get good performances for single screen gaming.
You may see my signature for the stuff i purchased last march.
I thought having three Sapphire 6950 1GB in triple crossfire configuration would give me crazy performance. And yes it did!
But truth be told, I dont really need more than 60FPS in my games for one as my monitor's refresh rate is about 60hz at 1920x1080, So I experience screen-tearing and have to have the vsync=on, which means a waste of power.
So i had it downgraded to two cards in crossfire and everything was okay.
Just to let you know I had rather not invested in the ram, I had 4gb corsair vengence 1600 cl9 .. just one ddr3 dimm installed.
A few months later I said why not move on to higher ram and bought the dual 4GB corsair vengence kit.
And to my shock, I didnt invest where i had to really invest, Thats more ram.
As soon as it went to 12 GB of ram, everything.. loading, framerates.. playing experience almost doubled as so was the FPS and speed.
So i decided why not run it off one card and see, and now I'm actually running off just one 6950 1GB and the FPS is just a perfect 60FPS to match my v-sync on and 60HZ refresh rate of the monitor.
So the whole point is, You simply need max ram you can buy ... like 8gb 12gb or 16/32 GB.. Thats the biggest upgrade you need for gaming as it gives serious boost in loading and FPS. Just look at it as common sense, Most games are'nt more than 16GB on the disk, so if it can load all the data onto the ram thats plenty enough to hold all data.. Loading times and performance seriously improves!!
Now i just have a drawer under my desk with two 6950 1GB doing nothing.. As I'm getting all the performance just from one card and the 12 Gigs of ram.
I also noticed the benchmarks for CPU's n GPU's posted by overclock3d are mostly done on a single 4gb DDR stick, Its not actually the performance you'd get if you run it on say 16GB DDR's.
So i think admin needs to seriously re-do his reviews with no less than 8GB or 16GB of ram in his benchmarks.
Good Day!
Nick
