CROSSFIRE HORRIBLE FPS 2x hd raedoen gigabyte oc 7950's

[dubzie]

CROSSFIRE HORRIBLE FPS 2x hd raedoen gigabyte oc 7950's

Horrible frame rate 2x hd radeon 7950 crossfire, I purchased 2 of these graphics cards straight up, ran them,
they were pathetic results below. Now i know i have done something wrong, wrong version wrong something how
ever i will provide all the details for i cant figure out the problem, i have been looking on forums for 3 days.

also the card literally doesnt crossfire sometimes every time i restart my computer my 2nd graphics card is
detected how ever not working like no clock rate no nothing just sitting there, then when i restart again
sometimes it works.

fps max graphics ; Single Card | Crossfire (only have 2 games atm to test)

World of warcraft 60-90 | 22-33
crysis 3 18-38 | 20-45

Catalyst Control Center Version 13.4

Specs ;
VGA : 2x hd raedoen gigabyte oc 7950's
CPU : Intel i7 3770k oc
COOLING : 920 kuhler liquid cooling system
RAM : 8 GB,s gskill ripjaw 1600 ram
CASE : black chaser mk-I Full tower
SATA : Intel 520 series 120gb ssd
SATA : 3x 1 tb Seagate hard drive
PSU : Antec HCG-900w high current gaming psu bronze
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MOTHER BOARD : Z77A-G45 - Intel 1155 socket

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Z77A-G45.html

OS : Windows 7 x64 Ultimate rebooted twice didnt fix the problem

used driver sweeper to clean the drivers then reinstalled 5 times.

System Information report written at: 06/11/13 04:56:25
System Name: THERIGG-PC
[System Summary]

Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name THERIGG-PC
System Manufacturer MSI
System Model MS-7752
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 4201 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. V2.10, 2/28/2013
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name TheRigg-PC\TheRigg
Time Zone Cen. Australia Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.95 GB
Available Physical Memory 6.24 GB
Total Virtual Memory 15.9 GB
Available Virtual Memory 13.8 GB

computer pic

 

[mouse24]

I don't know how much help I will be as I haven't personally used a xfire or SLi setup but I'll try nonetheless.

Have you tried reseating the cards? Does this happen if you reverse the order of the cards? (if say the bottom one doesn't get a clock rate for whatever reason is it still the bottom on when you swap them?)

Is this your motherboard? (Make ABSOLUTELY sure this is the EXACT mobo you have otherwise you WILL have a very expensive doorstop) If so I would check what bios you have as there are quite a few pcie improvements.

Edit: Oh just saw your bios version number was listed, you are up to date...

 

[dubzie]

I don't know how much help I will be as I haven't personally used a xfire or SLi setup but I'll try nonetheless.

Have you tried reseating the cards? Does this happen if you reverse the order of the cards? (if say the bottom one doesn't get a clock rate for whatever reason is it still the bottom on when you swap them?)

Is this your motherboard? (Make ABSOLUTELY sure this is the EXACT mobo you have otherwise you WILL have a very expensive doorstop) If so I would check what bios you have as there are quite a few pcie improvements.

Edit: Oh just saw your bios version number was listed, you are up to date...

Tyvm for your reply, in any attempt to assist me is very appreciated, yes i have tried re seating both graphics cards same result.

My motherboard is an MSI Z77A-G45 http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Z77A-G45.html

 

[mouse24]

I don't know how much help I will be as I haven't personally used a xfire or SLi setup but I'll try nonetheless.

Have you tried reseating the cards? Does this happen if you reverse the order of the cards? (if say the bottom one doesn't get a clock rate for whatever reason is it still the bottom on when you swap them?)

Is this your motherboard? (Make ABSOLUTELY sure this is the EXACT mobo you have otherwise you WILL have a very expensive doorstop) If so I would check what bios you have as there are quite a few pcie improvements.

Edit: Oh just saw your bios version number was listed, you are up to date...

Tyvm for your reply, in any attempt to assist me is very appreciated, yes i have tried re seating both graphics cards same result.

My motherboard is an MSI Z77A-G45 http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Z77A-G45.html

Ah yeah your bios is up to date, Hmmm running say furmark with crossfire enabled and disabled do you see a gain in FPS and do your gpus get adequate load?

 

[dubzie]

I don't know how much help I will be as I haven't personally used a xfire or SLi setup but I'll try nonetheless.

Have you tried reseating the cards? Does this happen if you reverse the order of the cards? (if say the bottom one doesn't get a clock rate for whatever reason is it still the bottom on when you swap them?)

Is this your motherboard? (Make ABSOLUTELY sure this is the EXACT mobo you have otherwise you WILL have a very expensive doorstop) If so I would check what bios you have as there are quite a few pcie improvements.

Edit: Oh just saw your bios version number was listed, you are up to date...

Tyvm for your reply, in any attempt to assist me is very appreciated, yes i have tried re seating both graphics cards same result.

My motherboard is an MSI Z77A-G45 http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Z77A-G45.html

Ah yeah your bios is up to date, Hmmm running say furmark with crossfire enabled and disabled do you see a gain in FPS and do your gpus get adequate load?

sorry noob here whats funmark?




Don't...

Bump posts


http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/283384-33-read-first

 

[thdarkshadow]

Google "furmark" to get the download. Its a benchmarking/stability tester application. I use it all the time and like it. Crossfire does suck but it shouldn't be that bad

 

[dubzie]

Ohh right tyvm im on it now, Could you please give me an insight on how much better 2 7950's are then 1 is it even worth it?.

Also my 2nd card doesn't get recognized out of random from CCC?.

 

[dubzie]

FurMark
1x 7950 = SCORE:3081 points (51 FPS, 60000 ms) but i think it crashed :\ im going to reinstall cata drivers and retry

 

[smeezekitty]

What if you try each card one at a time. One could be defective.

 

[slamer80]

Horrible cable management.

possibly a driver problem. or maybe heat issue?

 

[dubzie]

haha in all honesty i just got lazy from taking hardware in and out all the time i just well yeah got lazy, any ways despite from that, Heats fine max will hit 66, driver problem i really do think its that, i have reinstalled ccc drivers countless times pathetic fps but i think it could be os as well. so i am going to reboot go back and forth till finding a solution.

 

[dubzie]

What if you try each card one at a time. One could be defective.

stupidly i have not tried this yet so tyvm i will try this .

 

[dubzie]

its not an defective card.

 

[mouse24]

Have you installed the CAP profiles?

 

[dubzie]

Have you installed the CAP profiles?

is it necessary?, what does it change xfire is enabled in ccc and functional just horrible fps.

 

[thdarkshadow]

Have you installed the CAP profiles?

is it necessary?, what does it change xfire is enabled in ccc and functional just horrible fps.

"Crossfire is functional it just doesn't work" lol just try his suggestion
Try the new 13.5 drivers if you don't already have it

 

[dubzie]

ok i tried it updated driver all that Now im in a new delema, My g cards only sit at 300 MH'z

is there a setting i need to change or something?

 

[mouse24]

Aslong as they don't sit at 300mhz when doing gaming then your fine. Thats a normal power saving thing that gpus have been doing for a while now.

 

[dubzie]

sorry just realized they are fine i just got confused with gpu-z, everything is now checked out how ever the fps i am quite curious what a normal rate is tyvm for the help

 

[mouse24]

Yeah, 45fps is pretty normal for crysis 3 with your setup: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crysis-3-performance-benchmark-gaming,3451-6.html

 

[dubzie]

that benchmark isnt even for max settings and i have a good 45fps solid with max max so i could even say this has been better then an success?