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fps with 6850 crossfire

fps with 6850 crossfire
« on: March 05, 2011, 11:07:05 pm »
Hey everyone, I have a crossfire setup on a gpa-890-3udh. No matter what games i play I never get above 60fps. I mean this is cool, all games rock, no stutter or lag but I am wondering if this is a function of the drivers leveling off output or what?
CM HAF 922, GIGABYTE 890GPA-UD3H Rev 2.0 bios rev FF, PHENOM 2 X6 1090t BE oc3.6,ANTEC TPQ-850W, CORSAIR H70, 60 gb CORSAIR GT ssd,4-320 gb SAMSUNG F4 raid0, 2- GIGABYTE HD6850 crossfire, 4-VENGENCE 9cas 4 gb strips 1600/1.65v running @1333/1.5v 7-7-7-21,Win7 ultimate 64 bit

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Re: fps with 6850 crossfire
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2011, 08:53:13 am »
Hi

Can you give us a bit more information on your actual setup please ?
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: fps with 6850 crossfire
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2011, 09:08:52 pm »
Hi

Can you give us a bit more information on your actual setup please ?


CM HAF 922
GIGABYTE 890GPA-UD3H Rev 2.0 bios rev FF
PHENOM 2 X6 1090t BE oc @ 3.4
ANTEC TPQ-850W
CORSAIR H70
60 gb CORSAIR FORCE ssd
4- 320 gb SAMSUNG F4 raid0
2- GIGABYTE HD6850 crossfire
4- CORSAIR 9cas 2 gb strips 1600/1.65v running @1333/1.5v
Win7 ultimate 64 bit
CM HAF 922, GIGABYTE 890GPA-UD3H Rev 2.0 bios rev FF, PHENOM 2 X6 1090t BE oc3.6,ANTEC TPQ-850W, CORSAIR H70, 60 gb CORSAIR GT ssd,4-320 gb SAMSUNG F4 raid0, 2- GIGABYTE HD6850 crossfire, 4-VENGENCE 9cas 4 gb strips 1600/1.65v running @1333/1.5v 7-7-7-21,Win7 ultimate 64 bit

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Re: fps with 6850 crossfire
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2011, 09:34:49 pm »
I can't see any reason for your graphics to be limited but AMD isn't my side of things so I expect absic or one of the other AMD guys will be more help to you here. It is possible that the throughput is being limited but  am unsure how the particular system works.
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

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Re: fps with 6850 crossfire
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2011, 04:33:41 pm »
I think this is caused either by Vsync or some in-game FPS block. Some games have internal limit of 60 FPS and there's nothing you can do about that. If anything, you could probably overclock the CPU some more as Crossfire / SLI like as much CPU power as they can get.

In the end, limiting FPS to 60 is good in that you shouldn't be able to tell much of a difference with FPS any higher and this way you're using only as much computing power as needed.