Tri-fire!

[Termie]

FYI, HardOCP just published an article on this: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014...295x2_xfx_290x_dd_trifire_review#.U3RMwfldW1w

Seems to work pretty well, better scaling that quad CF.

 

[Kenmitch]

FYI, HardOCP just published an article on this: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014...295x2_xfx_290x_dd_trifire_review#.U3RMwfldW1w

Seems to work pretty well, better scaling that quad CF.

I like there reviews but they sometimes are confusing if you don't look at the settings they used. It's easier to follow when they do include the Apples to Apples charts tho.

 

[Erenhardt]

I like there reviews but they sometimes are confusing if you don't look at the settings they used. It's easier to follow when they do include the Apples to Apples charts tho.

He is partially right. 295x2+290x gives better fps/hawaii chip than 2x 295x2.

That may be because of bottleneck shifting to another component.

 

[lavaheadache]

Sorry guys for not sharing too much lately. My wife and I are expecting any day now and my hobbies have temporarily taken a back seat to real life.

The system is still blowing away my expectations though. Trifire Hawaii is incredible and possibly a, from a performance and ease of use point of view, flawless implementation of multi gpu.

Kudos to AMD with what they pulled off.

 

[wand3r3r]

Sorry guys for not sharing too much lately. My wife and I are expecting any day now and my hobbies have temporarily taken a back seat to real life.

The system is still blowing away my expectations though. Trifire Hawaii is incredible and possibly a, from a performance and ease of use point of view, flawless implementation of multi gpu.

Kudos to AMD with what they pulled off.

:thumbsup:

I agree, I'm very impressed playing in crossfire this generation.

While mining I was getting fed up with the fan noise but now I've just been playing bf4 a little more and it's great. The fan doesn't bother me at all in the game, I just despised it while it was on 24/7.

I wouldn't have minded snapping up some of the cheap cards now, but it was fun mining so I'm not too concerned that I don't have custom cards.

They're cheap, fast, and as smooth or even smoother then the competition = perfect combo for me. It's definitely commendable, they just can't get complacent.

 

[Final8ty]

FYI, HardOCP just published an article on this: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014...295x2_xfx_290x_dd_trifire_review#.U3RMwfldW1w

Seems to work pretty well, better scaling that quad CF.

But he did have this to say in the forum.

By 3 FPS AVG, which doesn't mean anything in these erratic and inconsistent multiplayer run-throughs. Keep in mind all run-throughs are different as its multiplayer.

The game felt choppy and more laggy during certain situations while playing the level. It's not something I can unfortunately display in a graph. You'd have to sit down and play it to feel what I feel, it just was close to being playable, but there were too many times during the level that the framerate dropped to unplayable levels. Tanks exploding, fires burning with lots of smoke, moving around certain things in the game with certain effects dropped the framerate too low at 4X MSAA with TriFire. QuadFire however, had the performance to push through those problems.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1818643

 

[dmoney1980]

LOL! I did a double take at first when I read 295! I thought that you paired an old GTX 295 for physics! But I think that your setup is a wee-bit faster than that

 

[Termie]

:thumbsup:

I agree, I'm very impressed playing in crossfire this generation.

While mining I was getting fed up with the fan noise but now I've just been playing bf4 a little more and it's great. The fan doesn't bother me at all in the game, I just despised it while it was on 24/7.

I wouldn't have minded snapping up some of the cheap cards now, but it was fun mining so I'm not too concerned that I don't have custom cards.

They're cheap, fast, and as smooth or even smoother then the competition = perfect combo for me. It's definitely commendable, they just can't get complacent.

wand3r3r,

Do you have a sense for the power usage of your dual 290s? What power supply are you using for your setup?

 

[dn7309]

I had no idea you can pair a single card with a dual GPU card. I thought you gota have both dual GPU card to work. But in this case, would the Lighting hold back the 295 or the 295 hold back the lighting? :hmm:

But great deal on the card. Micro center always price match anything without asking for proof. I wish there's one here in FL

 

[lavaheadache]

I had no idea you can pair a single card with a dual GPU card. I thought you gota have both dual GPU card to work. But in this case, would the Lighting hold back the 295 or the 295 hold back the lighting? :hmm:

But great deal on the card. Micro center always price match anything without asking for proof. I wish there's one here in FL

Crossfire'd cards can run independant clock speeds of one another

 

[blastingcap]

Crossfire'd cards can run independant clock speeds of one another

Are you ever gonna tell KingFatty and me how you're getting Eyefinity with smaller panels and switching to a big 4K for non-gaming? Is it some sort of four-way display arm or something?

 

[lavaheadache]

Are you ever gonna tell KingFatty and me how you're getting Eyefinity with smaller panels and switching to a big 4K for non-gaming? Is it some sort of four-way display arm or something?

I"ll post some pics in a couple hours

 

[guskline]

:thumbsup:lavaheadache, good luck to you and your wife!

 

[blastingcap]

Sorry guys for not sharing too much lately. My wife and I are expecting any day now and my hobbies have temporarily taken a back seat to real life.

The system is still blowing away my expectations though. Trifire Hawaii is incredible and possibly a, from a performance and ease of use point of view, flawless implementation of multi gpu.

Kudos to AMD with what they pulled off.

Ah, missed this post, congrats to you & your wife!

 

[lavaheadache]

Ah, missed this post, congrats to you & your wife!

Thanks. Setting up another kid room, painting, super preggo wife, baby classes (wtf? really?), busy season at the yacht club, routine maintenance on the 911. PC gaming has to take the backseat for a bit. :thumbsdown:. I still get my late night BF4 and Game of Thrones in though =)

 

[RussianSensation]

lava, what a setup!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnWf1sQkjY

Do you find cross-fire to be smoother than SLI with the latest generation of videocards? Could it be the case that 295X2 + 290X is just so much more powerful than the SLI setup you ran before that it feels much smoother since obviously the minimums and averages are now much higher in games?

lava, it's going to be a challenge to find a worthy upgrade from your setup. I am thinking the next upgrade will need to be 3x Maxwell cards or similar to feel a difference!

Congrats on soon adding a new member to your family

 

[wand3r3r]

wand3r3r,

Do you have a sense for the power usage of your dual 290s? What power supply are you using for your setup?

I finally remembered to check my power usage. (dual 290x's)

Although they are throttling to various degrees depending on the ambient temps as I play they are using ~570w pretty constant in BF4. The most I saw when looking quite a few times was 650 and that was in a menu.

I'm actually surprised how little power they are using in BF4.

I have an 850w corsair hx psu. (4770k stock, 4 HDDs, 16 GB running off that psu)

 

[loccothan]

Congratulations