Cross fire

[mattl3320]

Can anyone that is into gaming on a pc explain to me how cross fire works and does this increase my graphics and how do u hook up the monitor. Does the monitor only go to one dvi on one card or do you have to buy a y cable to hook up two monitors. and help please this just a Idea. And are gaming keyboard and mouse worth the money. right now using oem keyboard that came with the computer.

 

[searingxheretic]

Crossfire is ATI's name for the interface it uses to link 2 or more video cards together. If you linked 2 video cards of the same gpu speed together, you would effectively double the speed of your GPU speed. In using crossfire, you link the two video cards together inside the computer with a linking ribbon cable that comes with the video cards. One video card is a master, the other is a slave. You hook your monitor up to the master video card only. You can also do this with nvidia video cards, nvidia calls it SLI rather than crossfire.

As far as your mouse/keyboard, it really depends on the games you play. There is an advantage to having a laser mouse with a high dpi for first person shooters and things like that, the higher dpi makes the mouse movements quicker and more accurate. To be honest, I've never seen the point in upgrading keyboards.

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[searingxheretic]

PS. If your master video card onky has one dvi port, splitting it would only make the same image appear on both screens. If you wanted to use it like 2 independent monitors, you'd need something like this:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/digital_se/

Or, buy a video card with 2 dvi ports, and use your older video card as the slave in your crossfire setup.

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[mattl3320]

Thank u guys i play alot of fps games and i just install a xfx radeon 7750 grapics card in my pc and now i can play bf3 and call of duty and serval other games. I wanted to know about cross fire because i was thinking of getting a motherboard with 3pcie slots and adding another 7750 and a new psu latter on along with 2 more 8gb memmory cards. right know my specs are.

windows 8 pro
16gb of 1866mhz ram
xfx7750 grapchis card x1
700wat psu
asus motherboard with amd fx 6100 6 core cpu.
4 tb hdd
1 24x dvd
24 inch monitor

 

[mattl3320]

Does anyone here leave the gaming pc running 24/7. wanted to now because it seam like every time i leave pc off for a couple of days steam and orgin have updates that seam to take all day to update and it slow down my internet for muliplayer. if u do how hot does the computer get and how long does the psu last if u keep them on all the time?

 

[CapStar362]

steam and Origin should NOT be updating every day or so, they only roll out patches every 3/4 weeks or when a new expansion pack comes out. glad to see you got something for your BF3 issues, hit me up sometime, same name as here on Steam and Origin.

<TNT> is my clan and we run 3 servers, a HC Air Maps, TDM Canals, and 24/7 Oman B2K HC

 

[searingxheretic]

For what its worth, I do leave my PC running 24/7. In addition to gaming I use it to serve media and a web page. I do not leave steam running tough, I only start steam when I want to use it. I have even disabled the steam auto start, it was always doing something and I didn't like that.

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[CapStar362]

same here, unless it needs a winblows restart, i simply WIN+L it to prevent any unauthorized usage or background data xfers

 

[Darth_vader]

The current policy in the _vader household is for all computer equipment to be powered off either at the end of the day or when they're finished being used. The PUD bill's high enough as it is without leaving nearly a dozen PCs (or even one, for that matter) running 24 hours a day, not to mention the RF noise problem we already have around here.

That, and I have to sleep in the same room that three of them live in, and I don't need the noise from those machines keeping me up all night. So yeah, everything goes off at some point in the day.