I added a second 7950 for crossfire today. I played a bunch of different games and saw almost no FPS gains in a lot of them. The only game I really saw about double my FPS was in Tomb Raider.
Other games like Crysis 3, FarCry 3, Metro LL, Hitman...
all these would either show absolutely no FPS gain at all or maybe a very minor one.
I have an ALienware Aurora with an i7 920 CPU.
8 gig gskill ram 1600
Here are my 3Dmark11 results. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7051563
over 14,000 on the Graphics test but only 5,000 on physics and combined test.
Is it my CPU that's holding me back? I'm considering buying a new Case, motherboard and CPU. will a new CPU give me the performance I want? I play on a 24inch 1080p monitor. I want to be at 60fps full time with max settings and maybe some AA.
Most of the games didn't gain any fps at all. Like Metro LL for example. I went to a place in the game and turned up the settings to max and 4XSSAA and I was at 20fps. With both cards running I was still at 20fps in the same place with same settings!
Since I got the first 7950 about 2 months ago I've felt like I had some kind of bottleneck in many of the games. I'd have to dial down some settings to get the desired FPS.
I don't think I can overclock my CPU because the motherboard is OEM. I've been reading different things about this. Some people are saying that an i7 920, even though it's first gen is still a very capable CPU. Others say they saw big changes once they upgraded to a newer CPU. Then others say to overclock it and it will last another 5 years.
I just don't want to spend another 500 bucks and still not be able to play the games like I want to.
And I do have the 13.8 beta driver and Crossfire is enabled in CCC as well as frame-pacing.
Other games like Crysis 3, FarCry 3, Metro LL, Hitman...
all these would either show absolutely no FPS gain at all or maybe a very minor one.
I have an ALienware Aurora with an i7 920 CPU.
8 gig gskill ram 1600
Here are my 3Dmark11 results. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7051563
over 14,000 on the Graphics test but only 5,000 on physics and combined test.
Is it my CPU that's holding me back? I'm considering buying a new Case, motherboard and CPU. will a new CPU give me the performance I want? I play on a 24inch 1080p monitor. I want to be at 60fps full time with max settings and maybe some AA.
Most of the games didn't gain any fps at all. Like Metro LL for example. I went to a place in the game and turned up the settings to max and 4XSSAA and I was at 20fps. With both cards running I was still at 20fps in the same place with same settings!
Since I got the first 7950 about 2 months ago I've felt like I had some kind of bottleneck in many of the games. I'd have to dial down some settings to get the desired FPS.
I don't think I can overclock my CPU because the motherboard is OEM. I've been reading different things about this. Some people are saying that an i7 920, even though it's first gen is still a very capable CPU. Others say they saw big changes once they upgraded to a newer CPU. Then others say to overclock it and it will last another 5 years.
I just don't want to spend another 500 bucks and still not be able to play the games like I want to.
And I do have the 13.8 beta driver and Crossfire is enabled in CCC as well as frame-pacing.