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crossfire or not to crossfire

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  • Crossfire
  • AMD
  • Graphics
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  • ATI
  • World Of Warcraft
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September 17, 2013 11:15:52 AM

i have three 23 inch monitors for my setup "acer G245HQL" and i am running two XFX 7850 2GB cards is it better to cross fire and run all the monitors on one card or to split the work load on the two cards main "center" monitor on one card and the side monitors on the other card

most of the time its for gaming world of warcraft, skyrim, COD, etc etc etc

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September 17, 2013 11:25:28 AM

You'll be much better off running all the monitors from 1 card. If you hook the monitors to both cards, technically you would be disabling crossfire which would defeat the purpose of having 2 cards unless you specifically got 2 cards so you can run more monitors than one card allows. Having things running on your secondary monitors doesnt generate any noticeable performance hit when gaming unless they happen to be applications which can utilize the video card which outside of games are few and far between.
September 17, 2013 1:07:18 PM

ok thanks i was wondering i currently have it in crossfire during gameplay i get screen tearing with the monitor that has the mini display to dvi adapter on it i have even switched the adapter to see if the original one was faulty with the same results so i was thinking it would be better to split the work load on the cards
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September 18, 2013 7:49:12 AM

Sleeplessknight said:
ok thanks i was wondering i currently have it in crossfire during gameplay i get screen tearing with the monitor that has the mini display to dvi adapter on it i have even switched the adapter to see if the original one was faulty with the same results so i was thinking it would be better to split the work load on the cards


The screen tearing isnt related to the monitor/adapter but related to crossfire itself. You can try turning on Vsync in game and that may help reduce some of the screen tearing.
September 18, 2013 8:06:57 AM

You must enable video sync to eliminate tearing/shearing. Leave them in crossfire and disable your secondary monitor when you don't need it.
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