Help on my radeon 6570 card

in your system BIOS, disable integrated graphics. However, I believe your CPU integrated graphics are more powerful than the 6570.

guess i am mistaken, on paper the 6570 looks better

oh ok you want to use the dual graphics. Here is quick video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWyiXsG6VkI

turn it off, as you have 2gb on the GPU

what kind of power supply do you have

I took a look at the specs of your AMD A8-5600K CPU.

It contains a Radeon HD 7560D integrated GPU.

Do you mean CrossfireXing both the Radeon HD 7560D and the HD 6570?

Or do you mean using each graphics device separately for two independent monitors?

As for CrossfireXing, I don't believe you can can CrossfireX these two because there are from two different generations. It has to be in the same generation.

UPDATE:
Nevermind, it looks like CrossfireX compatibility is different for integrated AMD GPU and AMD GPU cards so it does work. I found a link that talks about it. "As of 2012, it seems that this "Hybrid CrossFireX" is called "Dual Graphics". Basically it is CrossfireX using an integrated AMD GPU and a discrete AMD GPU card.


As for performance, the AMD HD 6570 discrete graphics card has a 14% better performance. I use this card for playing Blu-ray movies and it is fine.

I use an Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics and an AMD HD 6570 discrete graphics card so you are lucky you can CrossfireX these two for extra performance boost. I bought several HD 6570 cards for HTPCs and you could CrossfireX up to 4 of these in the same system. So theoretically you could buy (3) more HD 6570s if you got (4) total PCIe 2.0 slots on your motherboard and CrossfireX all of them. The HD 6670 is a better performer but most of these are dual slotted so much more difficult to find a motherboard to accommodate more than two of these at a time.

I hear about CrossfireX performance gains are about 70% of its original performance for each additional card and people have experienced microstuttering in their games.

If you experience this at all, I'd disable the integrated AMD HD 7560D and run off just the HD 6570 only.

To do this in Windows, Right click the "My Computer" icon to go into the "Device Manager", under "Display Adapters", listed next to the AMD Radeon HD 6570 will be the AMD Radeon HD 7560D. Right click on the AMD Radeon HD 7560D and click Disable. Reboot and it should use only the AMD Radeon HD 6570 for all your software applications. Reboot the computer but make sure you have only "ONE" display connector hooked up to the rear of the HD 6570 graphics card. This will avoid any confusion as to which connector it will use for the primary display adapter.

Afterwards in the BIOS you can also select the Primary Graphics as PCI, PCIe, AGP (on older systems) or integrated graphics in most BIOSs. But even selecting PCIe in my BIOS doesn't turn off the Intel HD 4000 from showing up in the Device Manager. If you want to be rid of an integrated GPU from being detected or using any power at all it is better to get a pure CPU without any integrated GPU.

If you are CrossfireXing both these then set the AMD integrated GPU memory to the maximum memory value you can. Do not set it to AUTO as that might choose a value less than the maximum memory dependent on how much system memory you have installed.

If your AMD HD 6570 card has 2GB video memory and the BIOS only lets you use a max of 1.5GB of shared system memory then I believe CrossfireXing both will cause total usable video memory by the software application to drop to the lowest common denominator of 1.5GB.

Anyhow 2GB video memory might be overkill for the HD 6570 so you probably won't notice much difference losing 0.5GB of usable video memory but at least you have the performance gain from CrossfireXing.

I would try not messing with the overclocking settings or maxing out anything and leave them at default clocks first. Also make sure you update to the latest integrated graphics driver (non beta) and the discrete graphics driver before attempting it again.

If possible you can try the integrated graphics card first (pull out the discrete graphics card), and set at the normal graphic speeds and make sure no problems running your program. Then test the discrete graphics card and do the same. Then you know each of them work fine independently before attempting the CrossfireX. I haven't tried your version of CrossfireXing integrated with discrete graphics so this is what I would do in your situation.

The most reliable way to use CrossfireX with the least amount of problems would be using real discrete graphics cards of the same exact brand and model. So if you have the money you could try buying an identical HD 6570 if it is worth it. If I were to suggest something better at this point, I would ditch the CrossfireX strategy and grab this:


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This one is 4 times more powerful than the HD 6570 which uses 44 Watts MAX TDP and uses 11 Watts MAX more than the HD 6570.

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