++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[alfa147x]

what video cards are those?

MSI N460GTX Hawk 1gb

 

[Locut0s]

Crossfire on the 6XXX series is supposed to be very good.

At least I hope so, just got a 6870. When I upgrade my mobo/proc I will probably go two 6870's.

It all comes down to specific game titles and drivers. For example it's taken over a month for AMD to get crossfire working properly in either the 6xxx or 5xxx series in Skyrim. They had issues with BF3 an CF as well for a while. On paper it scales well and when the drivers are tweaked just right for a game it works very nicely. Problem is you have to have a crack driver team and neither ATI nor NVIDIA has a really good track record when it comes to multi GPU scaling in lots of games. Popular games they almost always get right eventually. But I'm sick of having to wait for them to fix issues. It's not worth it when the most powerful singly GPU card in each generation (every 2nd generation more like) is often more powerful than two of the previous kings in SLI/crossfire.

 

[alfa147x]

I forget what are those again? 460s? I'm still thinking of ditching my 5970 and upgrading to an Nvidia 680 or whatever they will call it. Sick of dealing with poor Crossfire/SLI scaling. A single powerful card from now on.

Idk. My gf is playing skyrim right now. The GPU utilization is about equal. The first card always is 2 - 3% higher but it's consistant.

 

[alfa147x]

It all comes down to specific game titles and drivers. For example it's taken ovfire.

I've heard horror stories about xFire. The guy's machine I'm hackintoshing is running two 6870's so many driver issues. To play some games he has to unhook the connector! I think he's doing better after the last update.

6870's rock in OS X native support. It's awesome. Both cards were plug and play

 

[Locut0s]

Hackintoshing. A friend needs wifi and I need bluetooth. So I'm buying this:

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That's a wifi / bluetooth module out of a MacBook Air

Apple PCB's are all black. So is my motherboard. It would look better lol

Yeah that's what I thought. WAY to picky You aren't going to find it. I don't even think NCIX carries a mini to regular adapter like that. I'm sure we can special order it though.

 

[Locut0s]

Idk. My gf is playing skyrim right now. The GPU utilization is about equal. The first card always is 2 - 3% higher but it's consistant.

Skyrim has been a nightmare for them for some reason. Some xfire rigs seem to scale fine others don't seem to work, still others get negative scaling. As of the latest drivers 12.1, most of this seems to be fixed. But it took a month to get to this point after the game was released. AMD is particularly bad at this but NVIDIA HAS had their own issues with SLI in other games, and Skyrim too. I'm just tired of waiting around for them to fix these kinds of issues. I shouldn't have to when I paid EXTRA, 5970.

 

[alfa147x]

Yeah that's what I thought. WAY to picky You aren't going to find it. I don't even think NCIX carries a mini to regular adapter like that. I'm sure we can special order it though.

Current bluetooth method:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2197929&highlight=

 

[alfa147x]

Skyrim has been a nightmare for them for some reason. Some xfire rigs seem to scale fine others don't seem to work, still others get negative scaling. As of the latest drivers 12.1, most of this seems to be fixed. But it took a month to get to this point after the game was released. AMD is particularly bad at this but NVIDIA HAS had their own issues with SLI in other games, and Skyrim too. I'm just tired of waiting around for them to fix these kinds of issues. I shouldn't have to when I paid EXTRA, 5970.

I'm about to post a thread. I wonder if people have had more issues with SLI than xFire

 

[Locut0s]

Current bluetooth method:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2197929&highlight=

Lol neat hack. I know nothing about Hackintoshes.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nefresh.

 

[Locut0s]

Off to do my workout.

 

[MotF Bane]

Off to do my workout.

:thumbsup:

 

[alfa147x]

Lol neat hack. I know nothing about Hackintoshes.

Not neat. But it works

 

[alfa147x]

 

[alfa147x]

Family making their way down

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef?

 

[alfa147x]

12312

 

[Gothgar]

Sean Bean, great actor or greatest actor?

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[eldorado99]

ned.

 

[Gothgar]

Nef.

Nef.

 

[MotF Bane]

Uh oh, one of my server drives has gone missing. And it's not one of the usual MIA drives.

 

[MotF Bane]

RDP confirms drive is not operational.

Fuck.