Weird crossfire problem!

Hi my name is Christian and i'm new to this forum, however i suggested to sign up and try my luck in you guys here.

I recently bought a new killer? rig that was made to play the latest games and watch the eye candy aswell

BUT... I have a weird problem that came across when all was done.

After my installation of all hardware (Checked that all software/drivers was the latest as allways) i got really low scores/fps in both games as in benchmarks. Note that this claims is based upon researhes across several reviews on the net.

In 3DMark06 i get 7300(+-100) Marks and that's pretty bad according to others 8000+ with same system setup.

In games i've tried to run both crossed and non crossed to see the diff.
And i allmost gets better FPS non crossed then crossed. In many cases it just raises about a few FPS when i crossed mode. Besides that my system feels slow in games, and not that fast as it should be?!

If i can remember correct, the first time i setup my system rig and installed everything for the first time i got 7741 marks in '06 (It was with CL 6.3) and now i get about 4-500 marks less.

I've tried all i can to solve the prob without any further success so i'm trying to get an resonable answer in here.

My system spec is as followed:

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ s939
Memory: 2x1GB Samsung PC400 DDR
Mainboard: ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe
Display1: PowerColor X1900XTX
Dispaly2: PowerColor X1900CFE

Well i think that's the important stuffs.

Best regards,

Christian, Sweden...

PS! My english grammar and spelling isn't that well so please bare with me

When you say "latest drivers" you don't mean beta do you?

What bios version are you running? Version 0311 was released about a month ago and this was suppose to fix some of the issues you've described. Version 0404 has just been released so you should flash your MB and see if things improve.

3dmark is a funny thing. you have to make sure that your settings are all completely the same to get an equal score. set your detail levels in the catalyst control center to performance and see if that makes a difference.

also use THG's vga charts. their latest one should do. it only uses the gfx tests in 3dmark06 so your CPU won't matter. see how well it compares to them.

remember C/F won't always boost your games FPS, in most it should but some games AFAIK can be funny. make sure you have all the latest patches for your games.

Also try running 3dmark in a loop of 5 or more times. it will then give you averages of the scores vs. just one to give you a more accurate read. I have an FX-57 cpu running a 3ghz, and my 3dmark06 is only around 6900 in crossfire mode since i run a single core cpu.

3dmark won`t take advantage from crossfire....you can either run an older mark like our friend suggested....2001 or 2003 or simply run a crossfire compatible game.....use fraps....
and compare with the single vga set...
good luck

3D Mark is popular but is not a very good benchmark

Try SPEC

http://www.spec.org/gpc/downloadindex.html

it is much much better

Also check to see how many FPS you're getting in your games and compare the results against THG's VGA charts

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/332/3/

It wouldn't hurt to compare other reviews too

Good Luck :-D