HIS Coming up with a Radeon HD 7970 X2 Card

rjc34 · Nov 19, 2012

drdeathx said:
????? Potential hassles?

Occasionally driver issues causing games to work better using only a single GPU, etc. Microstutter as well (although the issue has been much alleviated from previous generations.

drdeathx · Nov 19, 2012

cadaveca said:
Yes, hassles. Like when the second GPU is useless on some new games, like how more than 2 GPUs doesn't quite work right always, add in other driver snafus...

singlecard and dual, for the most part, is great, for sure, but it's not perfect. I don't see it as a big deal, you just need to be aware of it if you use Crossfire.

So 2 cards would be better than the 7970 x 2?

cdawall · Nov 19, 2012

drdeathx said:
So 2 cards would be better than the 7970 x 2?

I would assume in theory it would clock better in that configuration...

Th3pwn3r · Nov 19, 2012

Yeah...I still feel as though dual video cards are asking for problems. I remember the earlier days of SLI, most of my games were so glitchy, buggy and crashed that I had to pull one card and problems were solved. Here's are some examples of what I was dealing with back in the day-

drdeathx · Nov 19, 2012

cdawall said:
I would assume in theory it would clock better in that configuration...

Single cards run cooler than 2 GPU's with one air cooler is all I know..

cdawall · Nov 19, 2012

drdeathx said:
Single cards run cooler than 2 GPU's with one air cooler is all I know..

That's what I was trying to say sorry should have been clearer. :slap:

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Storage	OCZ Revo Drive 240G
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System Name	Halloween Boo!
Processor	Intel Core i7 3770K
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z77-Up7
Cooling	Custom Water/ Thermalchill TA 120.3/ Swiftech Apogeee XT/ MCP655/ Swiftech M icrores/ XSPC RX 240
Memory	16G G.Skill trident 2400MHz
Video Card(s)	3 x Radeon 7970
Storage	OCZ Revo Drive 240G
Display(s)	24 inch Viewsonic
Case	Phobia WayCoolIt Test Bench
Power Supply	Nexus 1100 watt

System Name	All the cores
Processor	2990WX
Motherboard	Asrock X399M
Cooling	CPU-XSPC RayStorm Neo, 2x240mm+360mm, D5PWM+140mL, GPU-2x360mm, 2xbyski, D4+D5+100mL
Memory	4x16GB G.Skill 3600
Video Card(s)	(2) EVGA SC BLACK 1080Ti's
Storage	2x Samsung SM951 512GB, Samsung PM961 512GB
Display(s)	Dell UP2414Q 3840X2160@60hz
Case	Caselabs Mercury S5+pedestal
Audio Device(s)	Fischer HA-02->Fischer FA-002W High edition/FA-003/Jubilate/FA-011 depending on my mood
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime 1200w
Mouse	Thermaltake Theron, Steam controller
Keyboard	Keychron K8
Software	W10P

HIS Coming up with a Radeon HD 7970 X2 Card

rjc34

drdeathx

cdawall

where the hell are my stars

Th3pwn3r

drdeathx

cdawall

where the hell are my stars