Graphic Cards Is 6970 CF worth it?

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My rig is in my sig.

1. Can my PSU handle 6970 CF + oced 2600k + 3hdds plus many USB devices plus cooling etc?

2. Will 6970 CF specifically improve performance of Crysis 2 by at least 60-70% consistently?
And Crysis 1 too???

3. Will the numbers literally double in these two games?
 
1. Probably

2. What resolution, detail level and AA/Af are we talking about? LCD or CRT, and which one? With a 60Hz monitor anything above 60 is immaterial

3. As above.
 
1) Yes it'll be able to handle all that.

2) No, but Crysis 1 will show a decent improvement, to see real improvement you'll need to over-clock your processor.

3) No they will not double literally or even figuratively. As I said you'll need to seriously over-clock the system.

What resolution do you play on? That is the key question if it is, 1080p then be happy with a single card.
 
no the numbers are not going to double. in crysis you can expect an increase of upto 80% using the enthusiast settings & for crysis 2 the xfire scaling is not good and you are not going to get more than 30-40% improvement at extreme settings.

Your PSU will handle 6970 xfire comfortably.

Plz see my signature, I am running a similar setup to the one you will have if you go xfire and I am having a lot of headroom left.
 
Rite,

Irrespective of everything, CF is pure PITA as of now with the game you have in mind. You will have to use an external application like RadeonPRO to get stable frames and the bloom which you love so much will flicker so so so bad, that you will feel like throwing up within 5 minutes of game play. Your game will be capped to 60 FPS and rates WILL fall below 45 FPS at places cause of bad profiling or bad game development for XfireX --You can choose here. Also scaling is quite bad. Stick to your one accelerator and be happy.

If you want to consider other titles then let us know your monitor resolution.
 
1. Yes it will, but will be stressing the PSU

2. Yes it will make a gr8 diff in crysis1, but crysis2 is light on system, so considering your system , i say you will hardly notice the increased frame rates. overall at hd reso, u will get 40% increase.

3. No
 
My CPU is already oced to 4.2 and I didn't really a notice a diff yet over the stock 3.4 :P

So I have decided not to.

Will probably get a 7970 when it releases :D
 
Sorry but let me put it this way. I am able to run high settings on Crysis 2 on my rig, with a single 5850...Why would anyone need 2x6970's to run high settings???

And its playable with no drop in frame rates at all..
 
On a single 6970 at max settings minus AA I average around 45-60 FPS in Crysis 2, plus minus.

However, for Crysis I get around 30-35 FPS at the same settings, so I need around 55+ there.

And I wouldn't mind constant 70+ FPS in Crysis 2 with full AA on too.

However, scrapped the idea. Will get a 7970 when it comes, just another 4-5 months to wait at most and no CF tension either! :D
 
@rite frankly speaking you dont need a xfire setup to max out crysis 2 but yes in crysis the advantages of a xfire setup is clear as you will be able to run crysis maxed out with 4xAA at enthusiast settings at 60fps. But like asingh said xfire or for that matter any multi-gpu set up is a major PITA. in half of the new releases you wont get good scaling so staying with a single high end gpu is definitely the better option. I am running a xfire set-up simply because i do a lot of benching & I fold 24/7 :)
 
@OP

1. PSU is enuff to handle all of your components.

2. The set up will definitely improve performance in both of the games rather than single card. But to fell the difference, you need to have large resolution, you wont feel the difference upto 22 inch monitors with 1680*1050 resolution.

3. Adding two cards simply does not mean double the performance, so the answer is no.

BTW, why are you asking these questions? You should have asked, for playing two games, is investing 40k+ worth it? The answer is definitely know becoz within an year, another card will come out that outperforms your CF set up single handedly and also that in half the cost.. Save your money to upgrade gpu later rather than investing in CF.

CF is only worth it if you go for multi monitor/eyefinity set up.
 
@ full HD. no point.. BF3 is coming november, save the bucks, buy a HD7970 whenever it comes out(definitely before BF3)
 
rite said:
On a single 6970 at max settings minus AA I average around 45-60 FPS in Crysis 2, plus minus.
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there is no option for AA in crysis 2 :)

also with my single 570 gtx(without overclocking) i get somewhere around 60-80 fps.with vysnc its 60 locked sometimes falling to 50 rare though
 
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