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290x crossfire problems

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June 14, 2014 6:31:21 PM

Well I'm running a dual 290x gigabyte reference system with a 8320 cpu, 16gb of ram on windows 8.1 on a 1080p monitor. So my problem is with gaming performace. I'm seeing benchmarks online of games like crysis and far cry 3 being crushed by these two cards together at higher resolutions than mine and yet when running far cry 3 i'm getting worse performance in crossfire than I am in a single gpu set up. I don't understand why that would be. I'm seeing 60-70 fps in a single gpu set up in far cry 3 and then i'm seeing massive stuttering and dips to below 30 fps when using cfx in far cry 3. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also i'm on the 14.4 drivers.

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June 14, 2014 6:54:01 PM

Are you kidding? Two of the best GPU's in crossfire and with one of the crappiest CPU's?
A 8350 will bottleneck 7970's, Tom tested it long ago:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8350-core-i7-377...

The bottleneck with the lower 8320 and much more powerful 290X's would be huge!

You're in desperate need of a CPU with some power. Intel i5-2500K or newer. Intel's latest being the 4690K. That with an Asus Hero Z97 board would be sweat... and work those 290's right!
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