5700s in crossfire mode

[kentek]

?1 is anyone using crossfire with these cards when playing this game if so is it any better.
I ask because i have mine set up this way on a 4 core i7 o.c. @3.1=8gigs ram @1600 raid ssd120gig drives and i run dual 32 led tv's
?2 should i get one big card

 

[a little black duck]

Re ?1: What game are you refering to?

Re ?2: Depends on several factors. What gpu's are the 57xx cards? Do you already have both of them in your system or only 1 and you need to get the other? What psu?

 

[kentek]

so i have them both in and showing crossfire
here is the hardware info from system information
Name ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68B8&SUBSYS_1482174B&REV_00\4&113C73B2&0&0018
Adapter Type AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x68B8), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. compatible
Adapter Description ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Adapter RAM 1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Installed Drivers aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Driver Version 8.980.0.0
INF File oem205.inf (ati2mtag_Evergreen section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xC0000000-0xF7FFFFFF
Memory Address 0xF71C0000-0xF71DFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000A000-0x0000A0FF
IRQ Channel IRQ 4294967293
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys (8.14.1.6268, 359.00 KB (367,616 bytes), 6/11/2012 12:26 PM)

Name ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68B8&SUBSYS_E144174B&REV_00\4&2669B585&0&00E0
Adapter Type AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x68B8), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. compatible
Adapter Description ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Adapter RAM 1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Installed Drivers aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Driver Version 8.980.0.0
INF File oem205.inf (ati2mtag_Evergreen section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1920 x 1080 x 59 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xEFFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xF7EC0000-0xF7EDFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000DF00-0x0000DFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 4294967292
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys (8.14.1.6268, 359.00 KB (367,616 bytes), 6/11/2012 12:26 PM)

 

[kentek]

catalyst control information

Graphics Card Manufacturer Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Device ID 68B8
Vendor 1002
Subsystem ID E144
Subsystem Vendor ID 174B
Graphics Bus Capability PCI Express
Maximum Bus Setting PCI Express x4
BIOS Version 012.020.000.048
BIOS Part Number 113-C012164-S12
BIOS Date 2010/12/13
Memory Size 1024 MB
Memory Type GDDR5
Core Clock in MHz 850 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 1200 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 76.8 GByte/s

 

[kentek]

so i am wondering am i just wasting valuable power for 2 cards
im going to want to play black ops and should i keep this setup or got to a dual gpu single card

 

[kentek]

Antec 1000 quad rail and liquid cooled i7

 

[kentek]

Sorry they are Ati radeon 5770hd x2

 

[a little black duck]

That brings it down to just the budget. I'm running a pair of 5870's in xfire and if the budget was there, I'd jump to the gtx690. It being, basically, a dual 680, you have the option of getting another 690 later for a quad sli.

 

[kentek]

are you hitting 60fps i hit
44fps on far cry 2 i wouldn't have thought 800mhz v 875mhz would make that much of a diff it maby time to overclock to 900mhz
gtx690@1200.00$ no wonder we have ps3's

 

[kentek]

GeForce GTX 680 2GB nVidia GeForce GTX 680 Chipset (1006Mhz) 2GB GDDR5 (6008Mhz) Dual Display DVI/HDMI/Display Port PCI-Express 3.0 Graphics Card
under 600.00 has got me thinking UPGRADE lol