Crossfire Clubhouse

[Chicken Patty]

dont have it, sorry.

if you send me a copy i'll test it for you

I'll have to see when my companies next vessel goes to Sydney/Melbourne. I work for a import/export line.

 

[ny_driver]

Thanks.

I thought it sounded strange too. They told me if the problem persists with the replacement card I should look into my other components. I then informed them that the system is up and running perfectly with my Sapphire 4890 installed.

As far as what they are sending me I do not know. I mentioned to them several times how the replacement needs to have a reference design cooler, and that the Black Edition card would be a welcomed replacement. I haven't heard anything since Thursday. Probably hear from them tomorrow, I hope.

EDIT: I'll be mad as hell if they send me a 57 series card. 5850 would be an ok replacement. Either the Black edition 4890 or a 5850....I'll accept nothing less!

Well, today I get a message from XFX saying they shipped me something via Fedex on Friday(should be here Thursday.....wtf?) They didn't happen to mention what. I sent them a message ~8 hours ago to find out, but have heard nothing back. The suspense is killing me and all of you too, I'm sure.

 

[mrsemi]

Ok, invite me in. BTW 20mmrain is most distressed, if anyone can swing by t he ati forum and check his posts I'm sure he'd appreciate any input.

I've been dealing with problems with metro 2033 in xfire, dirt in xfire, and the unigine benchmark, memory serving right. But I can't figure out what's wrong, brains said don't stray from the single 5870 that was killing (plan a) , greed said dual 5850's with blue tiger stripes made more sense.(Plan b)

Xfire lovers, show and tell me plan a was wrong.

 

[ny_driver]

I would probably have gone for the tiger stripes, too.....got any pics?

 

[mrsemi]

I would probably have gone for the tiger stripes, too.....got any pics?

Yeah give me a few, I'll show you how I put a rear case fan on backwards with extra long bolts. Case is open and it won't win any beauty contests.

Edit, here you go, little dusty.

Bonus pic with the eyefinity happening, posted my risers in the ghetto mod forum

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/TemperVale/IMG_0636.jpg

 

[Lionheart]

Yeah give me a few, I'll show you how I put a rear case fan on backwards with extra long bolts. Case is open and it won't win any beauty contests.

Edit, here you go, little dusty.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/TemperVale/IMG_0640.jpg

Bonus pic with the eyefinity happening, posted my risers in the ghetto mod forum

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/TemperVale/Ghettosmall.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/TemperVale/IMG_0636.jpg

I like your 2 shoe boxes oh and your setup

 

[mrsemi]

I like your 2 shoe boxes oh and your setup

Hehe, those aren't shoeboxes... But they work great for the application and I've done some fine tuning since.

Next stop 3 x 1920 x-1200

 

[Lionheart]

Hehe, those aren't shoeboxes... But they work great for the application and I've done some fine tuning since.

Next stop 3 x 1920 x-1200

Oh my bad from this angle they kinda look like shoe boxes holding up your monitors but 3 x high rez monitors, hope you enjoy that bra!

 

[PopcornMachine]

Yeah give me a few, I'll show you how I put a rear case fan on backwards with extra long bolts. Case is open and it won't win any beauty contests.

Edit, here you go, little dusty.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/TemperVale/IMG_0640.jpg

Bonus pic with the eyefinity happening, posted my risers in the ghetto mod forum

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/TemperVale/Ghettosmall.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/TemperVale/IMG_0636.jpg

Thanks for the cool pics. It looks like you've staggered the monitors so that only one bezel is visible. Was thinking of trying that if I ever do eyefinity, and the protrait set up as well. Seems a lot better than one overly long landscape.

What res are these monitors. And are you using 5850 or 5870 in crossfire? What frame rates do you get?

 

[mrsemi]

Oh my bad from this angle they kinda look like shoe boxes holding up your monitors but 3 x high rez monitors, hope you enjoy that bra!

They're not high rez, it's a budget eyefinity but trust me it's worth it.

*note* Didn't know how to combine the two responses, double post not intentional.

 

[mrsemi]

Thanks for the cool pics. It looks like you've staggered the monitors so that only one bezel is visible. Was thinking of trying that if I ever do eyefinity, and the protrait set up as well. Seems a lot better than one overly long landscape.

What res are these monitors. And are you using 5850 or 5870 in crossfire? What frame rates do you get?

I'm using 5850 x2 in xfire. Frames, relative to game but honestly a single 5850 is plenty for almost anything. It's been plenty for 2033 due to the problems in that game and that's the best example of where there should be trouble.

Yes, I'm overlapping bezels, the monitors are 1280 x 1024 x3 and they're old @ 25 ms and do great. As I mentioned in another post I'm not sure how important ms is but works great in dirt 2 and modern warfare two as well as aion.

click for an idea, it's still pretty cool for a budget eyefinity setup.


http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/TemperVale/mw2endeyefinity.jpg

 

[Lionheart]

They're not high rez, it's a budget eyefinity but trust me it's worth it.

*note* Didn't know how to combine the two responses, double post not intentional.

I was actually refering to when you said this Next stop 3 x 1920 x-1200

 

[PopcornMachine]

I'm using 5850 x2 in xfire. Frames, relative to game but honestly a single 5850 is plenty for almost anything. It's been plenty for 2033 due to the problems in that game and that's the best example of where there should be trouble.

Yes, I'm overlapping bezels, the monitors are 1280 x 1024 x3 and they're old @ 25 ms and do great. As I mentioned in another post I'm not sure how important ms is but works great in dirt 2 and modern warfare two as well as aion.

click for an idea, it's still pretty cool for a budget eyefinity setup.


http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/TemperVale/mw2endeyefinity.jpg

So that makes it a 3072x1280 playing area, just like the picture. Sounds like fun!

Oh, and you're pretty good with a knife too.

Thanks for the info.

 

[Mussels]

So that makes it a 3072x1280 playing area, just like the picture. Sounds like fun!

Oh, and you're pretty good with a knife too.

Thanks for the info.

thats a cinematic scene from the game.

 

[(FIH) The Don]

Can I join too?..
It seems many of you guys have DX11 cards..
but I still in love with my dual 4770 lol.

| Pyarn | XFX 4770 | 512MB | 790GX | PII 965 |

you sure can not too many 4770s though, but they are very strong in CF imo

i'm now out of ze clubhouse... retired member.


4870's are sitting on a bench awaiting a new home, 5870 is kicking their ass in performance
my 5870 is shitting all over my FPS with the 4870's...

heres a copy-pasta from my worklog thread:






DX9 performance: what i expected. basically the same.

DX10 otoh... shot up like a firecracker in someones ass.

thats okay you do it with some style now go get another 5870

but damn, they are getting raped by that 5870

Ok, invite me in. BTW 20mmrain is most distressed, if anyone can swing by t he ati forum and check his posts I'm sure he'd appreciate any input.

I've been dealing with problems with metro 2033 in xfire, dirt in xfire, and the unigine benchmark, memory serving right. But I can't figure out what's wrong, brains said don't stray from the single 5870 that was killing (plan a) , greed said dual 5850's with blue tiger stripes made more sense.(Plan b)

Xfire lovers, show and tell me plan a was wrong.

you're in
have you tried a fresh windows install?
or do a driversweeper run, and use the latest drivers?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I just came off the phone from the dudes doing my RMA & UNFORTUNATELY it looks like i will be leaving this club as they didnt bother repairing my 4870, giving me the choice of a range of 5770's to choose from....

but its still not over yet....I know a mate whose after a new graphics card...& I know of 1 store that still holds 1 lonely 1gb 4870....but that store recently got refurbished - If i go pick up the 5770 then sell it to my mate at full RRP, I can pick up that 4870 if its still in the shop. but chances are it still being on the shelf is pretty low since the whole store got referbed.....even though the 5770 boasts DX11. I cant crossfire it with my remaining 4870 which means im losing performance & I currently dont have the funds to go 5850-5970way.

*deep sigh*

wish me luck,& if i dont make it back alive, tell spongebob i love him

 

[Mussels]

I just came off the phone from the dudes doing my RMA & UNFORTUNATELY it looks like i will be leaving this club as they didnt bother repairing my 4870, giving me the choice of a range of 5770's to choose from....

but its still not over yet....I know a mate whose after a new graphics card...& I know of 1 store that still holds 1 lonely 1gb 4870....but that store recently got refurbished - If i go pick up the 5770 then sell it to my mate at full RRP, I can pick up that 4870 if its still in the shop. but chances are it still being on the shelf is pretty low since the whole store got referbed.....even though the 5770 boasts DX11. I cant crossfire it with my remaining 4870 which means im losing performance & I currently dont have the funds to go 5850-5970way.

*deep sigh*

wish me luck,& if i dont make it back alive, tell spongebob i love him

sell your 4870 to your mate, and get another 5770...

 

[(FIH) The Don]

he already knows

and good luck bro

and as mussels says, get another 5770, and oc them, just rmember to get the ref. cards with the 2 cf conn. on the top. xfx have a bad version with only 1.

they are seriously beasts in CF

 

[FreedomEclipse]

dont think my mate wants to buy that card either as its already been RMA'd once (Ive had extremely bad luck with my 4870s) but I will see how it goes.

Im most possibly looking to trade for this Vapour-X 5770 but im not sure if they'd allow me to cuz obviously you gotta pay more for the Vapour X cooler, I do a lot of business with the store & have netted them quite a few sales in the past so hopefully they will be nice to me...

full list of which 5770's they currently have available is >HERE< hit me up on what seems to be the best one otherwise im still liking the vapour X

 

[ny_driver]

Well, you're lucky they even got a hold of you to let you know what they were going to do and gave you choices. XFX just sends me a video card, they didn't tell me what they were sending to replace my 4890. I can't get a response out of them about what they sent me either....I'm getting a little irritated with them.

If they send me a 5770 I'll be mad, but I guess I'll just try to find another one and CF them. My Sapphire 4890 kicks ass though and I'd rather just match something up with it.

EDIT: I really don't see how the vapor-x cooler is any better than the reference design cooler. The reference cooler on my sapphire 4890 is very good. I'd probably pre-order the XXX.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I just *DONT* want to lose that performance. 2x4870s perform around the same as 1 5870. but for the record the 5770 isnt one of the upgrade paths i would have considerd under any circumstances. but my hand has been forced here.... Either keep the 5770 & OC the tits off it & have it running as a single card for a while so i can upgrade to something bigger or... sell the 5770 at full RRP to a mate & get that 4870 if its still there & hang on for the ATi 6xxx series....

there are so many options I would like to keep my 4870s for the performance, DX11 doesnt really appeal to me that much yet since BC2 is the only game i play that uses DX11.

 

[Mussels]

I just want to lose that performance. 2x4870s perform around the same as 1 5870. but for the record the 5770 isnt one of the upgrade paths i would have considerd under any circumstances. but my hand has been forced here.... Either keep the 5770 & OC the tits off it & have it running as a single card for a while so i can upgrade to something bigger or... sell the 5770 at full RRP to a mate & get that 4870 if its still there & hang on for the ATi 6xxx series....

there are so many options I would like to keep my 4870s for the performance, DX11 doesnt really appeal to me that much yet since BC2 is the only game i play that uses DX11.

no, they dont. worst case the performance is similar, best case my 5870 is shitting all over my old crossfire setup... as i posted earlier, my FPS is up an average of 100FPS in company of heroes at max settings.

 

[(FIH) The Don]

id say the reference Sapphire

the vapor x just puts the heat inside your case, the ref cooler gets the heat out the back

 

[FreedomEclipse]

omg....I am so up shit creak at the moment

So lets say I do sell off the remaining 4870. I still wouldnt have enough to get another 5770. (unless someones selling cheap in the FS section) so its either

A) Sell the 5770@Full RRP & try to source up another 1gb 4870

b) Keep the 5770 & sell up the remaining 4870

C) F**k'em both! sell both n get something like a 5830 or 5850

 

[(FIH) The Don]

do NOT go 5830, its only as good as a 5770 + a tiny bit, and the 4890 is better

def a 5850, that would be your best option i think, and then cf that when you get money for it