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if you are mining on one you should disable XFIRE anyways to game i beleive
Crossfire is only needed if you want to use them both together to game. You can mine on multiple non-crossfired cards fine.
if you are mining on one you should disable XFIRE anyways to game i beleive
Crossfire is only needed if you want to use them both together to game. You can mine on multiple non-crossfired cards fine.
I'm able to mine on all 3 cards while having crossfire enabled. I haven't tried gaming and mining at the same time, though, but naturally I can't see how that would work with crossfire enabled.
of course its possible to mine for bitcoins w/ X-fire enabled. it just doesn't make any sense if your objective is to maximize bitcoin mining production. as Chiropteran pointed out, X-fire only benefits games. recall that neither X-fire nor SLI scales perfectly, i.e. the performance of 2 AMD/nVidia GPUs in X-fire/SLI is less than the sum of the performance of its parts...whereas the performance of 2 AMD/nVidia GPUs not in X-fire/SLI is equal to the sum of the performance of its parts. and DC projects (including bitcoin mining) can take full advantage of this fact.I'm able to mine on all 3 cards while having crossfire enabled. I haven't tried gaming and mining at the same time, though, but naturally I can't see how that would work with crossfire enabled.
of course its possible to mine for bitcoins w/ X-fire enabled. it just doesn't make any sense if your objective is to maximize bitcoin mining production. as Chiropteran pointed out, X-fire only benefits games. recall that neither X-fire nor SLI scales perfectly, i.e. the performance of 2 AMD/nVidia GPUs in X-fire/SLI is less than the sum of the performance of its parts...whereas the performance of 2 AMD/nVidia GPUs not in X-fire/SLI is equal to the sum of the performance of its parts. and DC projects (including bitcoin mining) can take full advantage of this fact.
So in short, I should disable Xfire when mining and enable it when gaming?
I've tried setting it lower, but the lowest I can set in Afterburner is 685. And, strangely - anything below 1050, AB sets it to 1375.
Wow, what kind of rigs are you running?
Try Sapphire TRIXX, have had no problem clocking memory at ~650-700MHz
Try Sapphire TRIXX, have had no problem clocking memory at ~650-700MHz
Correct me if im wrong but forcing the fan too high will probably make the fan motor noisy. Granted id much rather burn out the fan a bit over the card.
Correct me if im wrong but forcing the fan too high will probably make the fan motor noisy. Granted id much rather burn out the fan a bit over the card.
Yeah, some GPU fans howl like banshees at 100% but they do move a lot of air. If no one's around though, who cares?
GPU-Z
I've found weird things happen if you try to run Trixx and AB at the same time.