Crossfire 5770's

[remotehugger]

i just ran mark 06 on my newly set up xfire 5770's---19472 points ---- and only 12605 on vantage ---- both runs at stock settings ---- thats like 2000-3000 points lower than most reviews ive read --- is it my cpu bottlenecking ?

 

[flyinfinni]

What CPU are you using? We can't tell you what the bottleneck is without system info for the things outside of your Xfire 5770's.

 

[shubham1401]

AMD Phenom II 720 BE OC to 3.7Ghz should not bottleneck your cards.

How much RAM?

 

[flyinfinni]

Which version of the CCC drivers do you have? could be a driver update, or even possibly a roll-back, would help.

 

[remotehugger]

sorry flyin--- i thought it showed my system---i am running a phenom II 720 at 3.7mhz--- 2x2gb ocz 800mhz 4-4-4-17 ---

 

[remotehugger]

9.11----actually lost 80 points with 9.12

 

[flyinfinni]

sorry flyin--- i thought it showed my system---i am running a phenom II 720 at 3.7mhz--- 2x2gb ocz 800mhz 4-4-4-17 ---

No prob- I realized after I posted that, that I could find it if I clicked through to your profile and stuff- forgot about that.

Anyway- I've heard from several of my friends that 9.12 loses a little performance, but obviously you found that out and are using 9.11, so that rules that out... I don't know if you've tried comparing your system to other DDR2 machines- is possible that your DDR2 memory bandwidth is dropping your score a bit compared to a DDR3 machine? (I don't know what those you are comparing to are running). You might try pushing your ram speed up a little and see if that makes a difference. Thats really the only thing that comes to mind looking at your system specs and stuff.

 

[remotehugger]

my ram is at 860--i tried loosening the timings a little too--- my brother is running xfire 4870's -- 2x2gb ddr3 1600 @1667 8-8-8-24 ----- a 955 be at 3.9mhz and is scoring just under 17000 on vantage --- would memory make me lose 4-5 thousand points ? seems like i should be owning him ---

 

[remotehugger]

and how do i get my specs to show up like urs ?

 

[flyinfinni]

I doubt the RAM would make that much of a difference. The extra CPU core will help his score a bit, and the 4870's are still a little bit better performance than the 5770s, but I am surprised by 4-5000 points. have you compared just GPU/3D score rather than the total score (which includes CPU score, where he will beat you a bit)?
Edit: to get your specs to show up, you have to put them in your signature in your forum settings and also set it to "display signature"

 

[remotehugger]

yes---my gpu score is only 10000---which i know is low--- his is 13000 ish------mobo maybe ? and thanks for the info on my specs

 

[flyinfinni]

What mobo is he using? You are running a 790GX chipset- the only way I can possibly see a difference is if he is using a 790FX chipset, and even then, the 8x PCI-e shouldn't be saturated by a 5770 or 4870... have you tried completely sweeping your drivers away, and verifying that you are running xfire, and not just using one GPU.
I just check my score (my single 4870 with a bit of an OC and my i5 OC) and my GPU score is around 10000 as well, which means you might only be actually utilizing 1 of your GPUs. I don't know how to verify that really since I've never X-Fire, but I would suggest running GPU-Z or something while you are running 3dMark Vantage and see if you've got utilization on both cores. My friend had an issue when setting up his 4890's in X-Fire where he had to completely wipe his drivers and follow a specific process to install them to run his X-Fire properly. Something to try at least... I don't know the process though, but you should be able to find it if you google search setting up X-Fire.

 

[remotehugger]

gpuz says xfire enabled---ccc shows and lets me clock each card seperately--so everything looks right---my xfire bridges are facing the same way --- msi afterburner also shows gpu-1 and gpu-2 core/mem/usage/ etc ..... even at 920/1390 oc (yes both cards r same oc) lol ---i still only score 13022 on vantage ? my brothers board is an asus m4a79xtd evo----it has the 790x ---- thank you for all your input ---- wondering if i should rma these cards and try the xfx or the his cards ?

 

[flyinfinni]

It shouldn't be the cards... I would suggest giving your drivers a full wipeout running in safe-mode and making sure you get rid of all trace of them, and then reinstall and see if that helps at all- my friends 4890's said they were running in X-Fire, but the scaling was crappy until he completely wiped and reinstalled his drivers.

 

[remotehugger]

yea--- ive done it like four times --- including once with the 9.12 ---- i eas gonna try again anyway --- gonna take my cards to my brothers tomorrow and put them on his board and see what happens - gonna keep messing around till then though -- im tired of my brother telling me i fail ---lol --- ty for the ideas --- i will post the results from my brothers board tomorrow night ---

 

[flyinfinni]

Thanks- I'll keep thinking and researching to see what I can come up with as well. Hope you get it figured out.

 

[remotehugger]

9.12 is on amd's website now --- gonna clean it up and dwnld it from there and see what happens

 

[remotehugger]

ok-----so i took my cards to my brothers and plugged them into his box---955be @ 3.9 ---- ddr3 mem @1666 ---- stock 06 score on his was 21874 --- mine was 19907 --- both on 9.12 drivers ---- so its my memory or my cpu --- think i will try some ddr2 pc 9500 and see what it does ---- not much luck oeverclocking these sapphires --- still trying to tweak it though --- any suggestions ?

 

[remotehugger]

well i cant seem to get these cards to overclock very well in xfire----i can get the core to 930mhz and mem to 1370. ive pushed the volts to 1.25 and still no luck. anyone having better luck ?

 

[Shaitis_06]

GO to CCC, go to V-sync settings, set it to disabled.
set all the other settings to performance not to quality

enjoy your new score.

 

[remotehugger]

i cant find the v-sync---all other settings are on performance