Crossfire making no difference with dual 5870

[happy medium]

yeah his cards arent scaling from what he said.

which means..

1. He's running the programs in windowed mode and not full screen mode.

or.

2. his drivers are so fubared, he might need to do a reformat to fix it.


Also his cpu is a major bottleneck.
Im sorry, as others said in the thread... u do not drop a monster gpu and XFIRE them on a cpu that has been outdated by 2 generations.

Yes u got outdated by 2 generations...
Nehalem and Westmere now... and in 5-6 months, one more will come out to which will be Sandy Bridge.

He should still get a nice boost with the second card @ 1900x1080 at max settings. There is no reason why he shouldn't be playing at max settings with min. frame rates over 30 fps.

You need a i7 if you want to play with frame rates in the 100's but a q8400 @ 3.5 should not be THAT much of a problem with most games.
My cpu plays resident Evil just fine and is not that much faster then his. If I get a chance , I have a billion games on my drive and I'll run some benches with my cpu at 3.2 (close to his speed @ 3.5), and see how games run at 1024x768 so there no gpu bottleneck. That should tell us where his cpu should be with 2 5870's.

 

[happy medium]

Keep telling yourself that.

Every day I see on [H] some poster complaining that his ancient C2D or C2Q processor isn't keeping up with his 5870 CF or 5970, or whatever other insanely expensive GPU setup.

Again, read the Guru3D link and weep. The C2D/Q the architecture is obsolete, and a setup with powerful GPUs is bottlenecked by that architecture. Period.

You just make yourself look silly when you sit there and bring up Phenom (I was talking about i5 and i7), an ATI 5830 (when we are talking about high-end multi-GPU setups), and state the MSRP of Q8400 when it first came out, as if that somehow contradicts my statement that you can get those CPUs for cheap here and now.

Anyway, none of this is immediately relevant to the OP's situation. Something is clearly broken with his CF setup.

I think you are wrong a q9550 is 90% as good as a i7 setup for games
Here is a q9550 @ 4.0 vs a i7 860 @ 4.0 with dual 5850's @ 1000 core each.
I don't see the q9550 system doing bad at all?

http://forums.vr-zone.com/news-arou...550-vs-core-i7-860-23-benches-all-hd-rec.html