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HD 7950 CF post driver fix

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If we can get CF scaling to around what SLI is, 2 HD 7950's in CF will be nasty.  About 800 dollars if you want to water cool them (250x2 (cards) +100x2 (Blocks) +100 (extra rads and fittings)).  Probably the route I am gonna go.

Specs: Core I7-2600K @ 4.5GHz @ 1.35V, 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance Black 1600MHz CL9, Cooler Master Evo 212, MSI Z77 Mpower Motherboard, Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X @ 1000/1400, Cooler Master HAF 932 Blue Edition w/ 3 Cougar Hydraulic Bearing 120MM fans (2 up top 1 in the bottom) replaced side panel with a window, and rear fan with a Cougar Hydraulic Bearing 140MM, Cooler Master GX 650 80+ Bronze PSU, Samsung DVD-RW, Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD, Seagate 750GB SATA III 7200RPM

 

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If they can get CF working properly, I'm strongly contemplating saving up the 250 euros for a second 7950.

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That is my plan for my 7950 if the drivers turn out alright and if they do another NS so I don't have to get 2 of the same ones. I wonder how close the performance would be to a 7990 considering 7970-7950 are so similar in performance. It would be cool to have that kind of power for 500$ :)

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If they can get CF working properly, I'm strongly contemplating saving up the 250 euros for a second 7950.

Just use Radeon Pro in the meantime, fixes all the current problems with crossfire and when the AMD driver rolls out on the 31st Just install that.

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Just use Radeon Pro in the meantime, fixes all the current problems with crossfire and when the AMD driver rolls out on the 31st Just install that.

Won't have the money to spare until the end of summer anyway :/

 

And let's face it, there aren't that many games that will bring a 7950 to its knees on 1080p anyway.

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Won't have the money to spare until the end of summer anyway :/

 

And let's face it, there aren't that many games that will bring a 7950 to its knees on 1080p.

I would recommend it, from personal experience with the software I find its even smoother then my friends SLI GTX 680 setup, almost no spikes in frame timings, feels like your running a single GPU. Toms Hardware did a report on the software and its pretty damn good. 

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I have a Vapor-X which sadly doesn't overclock for shit.  So I am gonna sell it off for 2 basic 7950's and water block both.

Specs: Core I7-2600K @ 4.5GHz @ 1.35V, 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance Black 1600MHz CL9, Cooler Master Evo 212, MSI Z77 Mpower Motherboard, Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X @ 1000/1400, Cooler Master HAF 932 Blue Edition w/ 3 Cougar Hydraulic Bearing 120MM fans (2 up top 1 in the bottom) replaced side panel with a window, and rear fan with a Cougar Hydraulic Bearing 140MM, Cooler Master GX 650 80+ Bronze PSU, Samsung DVD-RW, Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD, Seagate 750GB SATA III 7200RPM

 

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Yellow Dragon let's get this straight.

I <3 you :') you actually mentioned RadeonPro xD, I've been moaning about this for weeks now and finally someone mentions it ^_^; I can die in peace now.

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Yellow Dragon let's get this straight.

I <3 you :') you actually mentioned RadeonPro xD, I've been moaning about this for weeks now and finally someone mentions it ^_^; I can die in peace now.

I've recommended it.  :)

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True you have Emperor_Piehead :p

Console optimisations and how they will effect you | The difference between AMD cores and Intel cores | Memory Bus size and how it effects your VRAM usage |
How much vram do you actually need? | APUs and the future of processing | Projects: SO - here

Intel i7 5820l @ with Corsair H110 | 32GB DDR4 RAM @ 1600Mhz | XFX Radeon R9 290 @ 1.2Ghz | Corsair 600Q | Corsair TX650 | Probably too much corsair but meh should have had a Corsair SSD and RAM | 1.3TB HDD Space | Sennheiser HD598 | Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro | Blue Snowball

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