Mousemonkey :
toyftw :
bharathitman :
I had purchased a 6950 (2gigs) two years. The performance is really good and has served me well. I am thinking of buying another 6950 to run it in cross fire. What do you guys think? Is it worth it? or should i get another card like 770 gt? (In India 6950 is about 12000 now, but 770 gtx is about 35000, so huge difference in price) . What do you guys think about it?
Also I have a 600 W psu , do I need to upgrade it to a 700w+ one? (My pc specs are i5-4670 k , Asus Z87 pro mobo, 8gb ram)
Hi - from a budget standpoint, adding another 6950 is you least expensive upgrade path.
However, there aren't many 600w PSU's that have enough +12v amps to run a system
with 2 6950's in CF. You will almost certainly need to upgrade to a
good quality
700-750 unit. There are a few 650's that would work, but a good 700-750 is the way to go.
So, you might be better off selling your 6950 if you can get a decent price and going
with a single more powerful GPU.
The CF issues mentioned above have been greatly reduced with the latest AMD
driver release. As long as you are gaming on a single monitor. The new driver does
not address CF with multi monitor setips.
It's odd that none of the so called "improvements" made it through into the latest WHQL driver though, I wonder why that is?
From Anaqndtech: AMD Catalyst 13.9 WHQL Drivers Available
The short summary is that these are AMD’s first WHQL WDDM 1.3 drivers, designed to support Windows 8.1. On desktop systems, these drivers are available for everything that has DX11 support – HD 5000 and later, more or less – including the Llano, Trinity, and Richland APUs as well as Kabini and Temash (Brazos is not listed as being supported). Note that the 13.9 WHQL drivers do not include the frame pacing fixes that are available in the latest 13.10 beta or the latest CrossFire optimizations.
From Techspot:
For those of you out there with an AMD Radeon graphics card, AMD has released the Catalyst 13.9 drivers, which are both WHQL and Windows 8.1-certified. The drivers address a number of issues with performance in games, applications and the Control Center itself, although no specific game performance improvements were listed.
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