Sort of follow up to my previous thread about buying a system with a 5970 in it.
Man, what a beast - it runs everything I throw at it completely maxed out with smooth frames. Granted, I only game at 1680x1050 but it's still a treat. I might invest in a bigger single monitor sometime soon.
But that is now. Initially one GPU didn't seem to be working. When I first was messing with it all of the benches and performance in games was a little disappointing, especially Metro 2033. That game ran really slow, even without everything maxed. Finally I figured out that the key button unlocks the overdrive, and from there I was able to check on the second GPU.
Sure enough - no matter what game I played, when I exited out of it and immediately cheked the 2nd GPU it was not registering any activity or temp. I was esentially using a single underclocked 5870.
After toying with every option, and trying everything I was almost ready to give up when the Crossfire icon started appearing when I ran games. I still don't know what I did exactly.
Now when I exit a game and check the 2nd GPU records a temp similar to GPU1, so I figure it had to be working now.
And everything is smooth as glass now, even Metro 2033. For some reason the object detail in Crysis is greyed out, but it still says very high. Predictably, the benches jumped quite a bit as well.
I wonder if the guy who sold me the PC was having the same perfromance problems, and thought he was selling me a PC with a neutered GPU. lol
Man, what a beast - it runs everything I throw at it completely maxed out with smooth frames. Granted, I only game at 1680x1050 but it's still a treat. I might invest in a bigger single monitor sometime soon.
But that is now. Initially one GPU didn't seem to be working. When I first was messing with it all of the benches and performance in games was a little disappointing, especially Metro 2033. That game ran really slow, even without everything maxed. Finally I figured out that the key button unlocks the overdrive, and from there I was able to check on the second GPU.
Sure enough - no matter what game I played, when I exited out of it and immediately cheked the 2nd GPU it was not registering any activity or temp. I was esentially using a single underclocked 5870.
After toying with every option, and trying everything I was almost ready to give up when the Crossfire icon started appearing when I ran games. I still don't know what I did exactly.
Now when I exit a game and check the 2nd GPU records a temp similar to GPU1, so I figure it had to be working now.
And everything is smooth as glass now, even Metro 2033. For some reason the object detail in Crysis is greyed out, but it still says very high. Predictably, the benches jumped quite a bit as well.
I wonder if the guy who sold me the PC was having the same perfromance problems, and thought he was selling me a PC with a neutered GPU. lol
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