New System...4870x2 Slow Performance? Help!?!?!?

wick001

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Jan 8, 2009
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Last night, I got everything installed and running great.

I load on Crysis, expecting it to run like butter on this setup... core i7, 4870x2, 6 gigs ram, etc...

I put everything to very high, 1680x1050, 2xAA, and it's still no better than the original gateway i bought with the i7 4850 512mb. It's laggy, not smooth as butter at all!

Then I ran the 3dMark that came with the sapphire card, on the first test, Janes Adventure (or something) 1680x1050, extreme everything, i was getting like 15fps??? And my overall score was like 12000 if i remember correctly.

This doesnt seem right to me. All of the drivers are updated, and my system is stable.

How Do I know this card is running properly?

(also when you go to CCC, it doesnt show 2gigs of GPU ram, it just shows 1gig twice for both chips?)

How do i know my card is working to it's full potential?
 

Borealis7

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some boards have the PCI-E slot automatically set to x1. check the bios and if it is, set it to x16. you might need to enable crossfire in the bios as well.
 

wick001

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What should I be getting on the standard 3dMark Tests?

And how do i know if the card is working properly?
(I went into the 3dMark system profile, and the pci-e slot is correct)