Crossfire Frame Drop

SkulD · May 17, 2014

Thanks again guys! But it's definitively bottleneck what I have. Just tested with MSI afterburner and with only one GPU activated, CPU peaked at 75% usage. And GPU was at 99% almost all the time. Then, I activated crossfire and boom. Cpu usage went to the roof. 95-100% all the time and the GPUS were around 60-70%.

I think I cannot overclock the processor more because of a motherboard limitation. Now I have it at 3.30 mhz, but my Gigabyte Motherboard model (gigabyte ga-h67m-ud2h-b3) has a limited multiplier I'm afraid.

try incresing virtual memory, as last resort, if it doesnt help then, at least you tried

hadesjoy72 · May 17, 2014

Thanks again guys! But it's definitively bottleneck what I have. Just tested with MSI afterburner and with only one GPU activated, CPU peaked at 75% usage. And GPU was at 99% almost all the time. Then, I activated crossfire and boom. Cpu usage went to the roof. 95-100% all the time and the GPUS were around 60-70%.

I think I cannot overclock the processor more because of a motherboard limitation. Now I have it at 3.30 mhz, but my Gigabyte Motherboard model (gigabyte ga-h67m-ud2h-b3) has a limited multiplier I'm afraid.

Yup....just looked up your H67 chipset and no OC ability from what I saw. Found a decent Gigabyte Z77 and a Asus Z77 for a good price. I know newer chipsets exist, but you already have the chip....just a thought.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131837

http://www.ncixus.com/products/?sku=70263&promoid=1337

I know that Asus and MSI manufactured Z77 mini ATX boards...might look on Ebay for those if no Z77 Gigabyte can be found... :rolleyes:

Juliogol · May 17, 2014

Thanks for all the help. Really appreciate it. I'm from argentina, so I'll hace to check those ones over here. Because of people like you and many others who help this community is awesome!!