Am I using my card correctly?

[crankyslap]

Hey guys, I have a Radeon HD 4870x2 2GB and from what I understand, this is like.. 2 cards in one or something?

All I have done so far is actually placing the card in, connecting it to the PSU and installing the drivers. But am I even using the card to it's fullest extent now? Am I supposed to activate some kind of crossfire thing?

I'm really cluesless on hardware other than actually placing and installing it So help is much appreciated!

On a side note, how well is this card keeping up with the newer cards? Will I have to upgrade soon to be able to play new games at Max / Near-Max settings on 30FPS or higher?

Thanks in advance guys

 

[Yukikaze]

Hey guys, I have a Radeon HD 4870x2 2GB and from what I understand, this is like.. 2 cards in one or something?

All I have done so far is actually placing the card in, connecting it to the PSU and installing the drivers. But am I even using the card to it's fullest extent now? Am I supposed to activate some kind of crossfire thing?

I'm really cluesless on hardware other than actually placing and installing it So help is much appreciated!

On a side note, how well is this card keeping up with the newer cards? Will I have to upgrade soon to be able to play new games at Max / Near-Max settings on 30FPS or higher?

Thanks in advance guys

The HD4870x2 is two GPUs on one card, so you could (somewhat inaccurately) say that it is "2 cards in one". Both GPUs operate together via Crossfire, but you do not need to enable anything, as it is enabled by default for dual-GPU cards.

Your card is quite powerful by today's standards and aside of its lack of DirectX11 support, it can keep up with the HD5870, which is a powerful card. I doubt you'll have to upgrade soon (unless you really want DX11 support, or you're running some insanely high resolution).

Also, please fill in your system specs in your control panel (and don't forget the check-box that enables showing them) so that we can see the rest of your system.

 

[micropage7]

Hey guys, I have a Radeon HD 4870x2 2GB and from what I understand, this is like.. 2 cards in one or something?

All I have done so far is actually placing the card in, connecting it to the PSU and installing the drivers. But am I even using the card to it's fullest extent now? Am I supposed to activate some kind of crossfire thing?

I'm really cluesless on hardware other than actually placing and installing it So help is much appreciated!

On a side note, how well is this card keeping up with the newer cards? Will I have to upgrade soon to be able to play new games at Max / Near-Max settings on 30FPS or higher?

Thanks in advance guys

when you use Radeon HD 4870x2, the card has 2 gpu on one board so it aint need to set again to get crossfire coz its done natively
Radeon HD 4870x2 is pretty fast card so i guess you need no worry it couldnt handle your game (exception: if you do game on extreme resolution with AA, AF and so)

 

[crankyslap]

Hey thanks for your reply. I have upgraded my system specs in the CP.

So as long as I'm running a 64-bit OS it should be using the card's 2 GPU's by default?

Also, as you can see in my system specs, my current CPU is bottlenecking (if that's the correct term here) my GPU. That's because I used to have a quadcore 3.4GHz AM3 but it made my computer freeze with nothing left to do but hold the power button till the pc shut down. Did some tests and turned out it was the mobo causing the problem. I'm guessing either because;
1) It doesn't natively support AM3 and had it's bios updated for it.
2) nForce sucks.

So I ordered these;

mobo; 770-C45 (AMD 770) GDEM03
cpu; Athlon II X2 255 (2x 3100 MHz) HD1A19
RAM; 4 GB DDR3-1333 Kit (4096 MB) ICIF26

Do you reckon I would be up and gaming again with these new items? Because at the moment I'm running old-pc-friendly games like WoW at 16FPS max. on lowest settings, and when there's alot going on on screen (fire etc.) it drops to 3FPS or so. I'm guessing this is the CPU's fault because with everything set to low it can hardly be the GPU.

Thanks

 

[Yukikaze]

Hey thanks for your reply. I have upgraded my system specs in the CP.

So as long as I'm running a 64-bit OS it should be using the card's 2 GPU's by default?

Also, as you can see in my system specs, my current CPU is bottlenecking (if that's the correct term here) my GPU. That's because I used to have a quadcore 3.4GHz AM3 but it made my computer freeze with nothing left to do but hold the power button till the pc shut down. Did some tests and turned out it was the mobo causing the problem. I'm guessing either because;
1) It doesn't natively support AM3 and had it's bios updated for it.
2) nForce sucks.

So I ordered these;

mobo; 770-C45 (AMD 770) GDEM03
cpu; Athlon II X2 255 (2x 3100 MHz) HD1A19
RAM; 4 GB DDR3-1333 Kit (4096 MB) ICIF26

Do you reckon I would be up and gaming again with these new items? Because at the moment I'm running old-pc-friendly games like WoW at 16FPS max. on lowest settings, and when there's alot going on on screen (fire etc.) it drops to 3FPS or so. I'm guessing this is the CPU's fault because with everything set to low it can hardly be the GPU.

Thanks

This has nothing to do with a 64-bit OS, it will work just fine on a 32-bit OS.

Your new system should be quite sufficient for most gaming.

 

[LifeOnMars]

He has a sempron@1.8 with an HD 4870X2 ...I forsee problems.

EDIT - My bad, did not see the post where he has ordered new stuff. Good Choice