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Title: New Crossfire setup for skrewy
Post by: mans on Monday, August 01, 2011, 04:01:13 AM
Soon I am ordering in 2 GTX 570s for skrewy. The 2 GTX 570s are about 10 - 15% more powerful than a single 6990. Skrewy wanted me to post this just so his E-Peen would be bigger.
Title: Re: New Crossfire setup for skrewy
Post by: BlueBlaster on Monday, August 01, 2011, 05:33:42 AM
Call me when Toy Story finishes rendering in 4K.
Title: Re: New Crossfire setup for skrewy
Post by: Knight on Monday, August 01, 2011, 11:29:03 AM
You know that 570's are nvidia and nvidia doesn't do crossfire right?
Title: Re: New Crossfire setup for skrewy
Post by: Alex on Monday, August 01, 2011, 12:26:21 PM
You know that 570's are nvidia and nvidia doesn't do crossfire right?
This.
 Did you mean SLI? Because you can't crossfire Nvidia cards.
Title: Re: New Crossfire setup for skrewy
Post by: Jason on Monday, August 01, 2011, 12:39:27 PM
This.
 Did you mean SLI? Because you can't crossfire Nvidia cards.
skrewy can.
Title: Re: New Crossfire setup for skrewy
Post by: Spanky on Monday, August 01, 2011, 14:40:05 PM
Also.... you can't SLI on older AMD boards without that hack... lulz.

Seems like overkill for faggotry LOL and other RTS games. Guess I'm just butthurt that I couldn't afford even 1 570, not that I'd want to.
Title: Re: New Crossfire setup for skrewy
Post by: Knight on Monday, August 01, 2011, 17:46:37 PM
Also two 570's use like 20% more power than one 6990. That's a lot of power usage for 10% more speed.
Title: Re: New Crossfire setup for skrewy
Post by: Spanky on Monday, August 01, 2011, 18:39:25 PM
Also two 570's use like 20% more power than one 6990. That's a lot of power usage for 10% more speed.

Twice the card space, lot more heat, more PSU cables and not to mention more strain on the PSU for having to distribute that power over more cables.

*shrugs* skrewy's money knows best though.
Title: Re: New Crossfire setup for skrewy
Post by: BlueBlaster on Monday, August 01, 2011, 20:24:18 PM
He uses superior aussie powered psu's. Strain is nbd.
Title: Re: New Crossfire setup for skrewy
Post by: Spanky on Wednesday, August 03, 2011, 14:30:46 PM
My bad on the sli, was originally going with 2 6970s but changed my mind after finding out they use 4 psu cables over 2.

The 570's in SLi use 4 PSU cables too...
Title: Re: New Crossfire setup for skrewy
Post by: [Nifty]-mister on Wednesday, August 03, 2011, 19:53:30 PM
i wanted 2 6990's but mans said no

  now i know whose the man! but good choice in cards, alot of heat on your pc tho!