7970ghz and r9 280x are not compatable in crossfire

Ryan Baker

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Nov 13, 2014
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hello if people are wondering like my self at once time if these two cards are compatabe in cross fire there not at least not for me i have a m5a99 r2.0 pro mobo 20 gigs of 1866 memory a 9370 and these two cards now what i think is funny is i get more out of my 7970 then my 280x for what reason i dont know but its only 5 fps i can cross fire them and even benchmark in haven with all the sliders maxed out and get almost 100 fps i got 1200 watts of juice so power is not the problem its only when in game that i have issues no bsod no freeze and have to hard reset just black and force restart sounds like heat but i dont know how plenty of air flow and i even called amd and they said that it will not support it even if you are able to enable crossfire x in ccc if im doing something wrong please someone give me some information im running windows 8.1 and my computer is blazing fast on just one card at 1080p but i want to increase my scaling slider in bf4 and other supported game thank you.