How do i know if am using my graphic at its best?

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  1. Posts : 143
    Window 7 Home premium 64 bit
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    How do i know if am using my graphic at its best?


    For some reason i get the feeling that am not using my graphic card full potiental, becuase i have dual Ati 5970's and when i play napoleon total war, my whole pc just shuts down when i zoom all the way in, also, when i benchmarked it on 3D setting thing that i downloaded, it was only giving me 32 Fps, with a resolution of 1024 X 768, and ive gone to youtube and i seened that these cards could do alot better then that... and i lagg a bit, or my game crashes when i play crysis at ultra high settings, and i seened people play crysis at ultra high setting with good fps with only 1 5970, and i have 2, can anybody tell me a way to find out if my graphic cards are working properly? or am i using it at its full power?
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  2. Posts : 581
    Windows 7 Ulitimate Beta 32 Bit, Windows Vista 32 Bit, Ubuntu 9.10 32 Bit
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    first off what is your cpu? and the rest of your system specs
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  3. Posts : 1,506
    W7 Ult. x64 | OS X
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    It may be that your Crossfire setup isn't working properly. I'd take out one of your graphics cards and see if the problems persist. If they don't, then you've likely got a crossfire problem. In this case you need to make sure that your motherboard supports two PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (Some support two slots but force them to run at 16x & x8 or x8 & x8), make sure that your cards are setup to use crossfire properly and make sure that both cards are functioning properly.
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  4. Posts : 143
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    o.o


    well i bought it from alienware so i doubt there is any crossfire problem, but i think i found the problem, when i click on cpuz64 to look at my processor details, the processor speed is only at 1604.0 mhz, when i first got my computer the core speed was at 3208.0, why did it drop significantly? my processor speed is i7 920 2.6ghz, ( it changes to 3.2ghz automatically when i load it)
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  5. Posts : 581
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    hm i would check the crossfire connection bridge
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  6. Posts : 1,325
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    Diabolical, fill in your system specs completely. If you have TWO 5970, I assume you're not some newbie to PC gaming (who spends more than $1K just for display adapters without knowing what it's capable of?).

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  7. Posts : 143
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    Hardrive - 1.15TB
    GPU - Dual Ati radeon 5970 4gb
    Processor - Intel i7 920 2.67ghz overclocked 3.2ghz Liquid cooled
    Ram - 6gb
    Power Supply - 1200 Watts
    Screen Resolution 1920X1200
    64 bit operating system

    did i miss anything? how do i check my connection bridge thepizzaman?
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    Diabolical said:
    Hardrive - 1.15TB
    GPU - Dual Ati radeon 5970 4gb
    Processor - Intel i7 920 2.67ghz overclocked 3.2ghz Liquid cooled
    Ram - 6gb
    Power Supply - 1200 Watts
    Screen Resolution 1920X1200
    64 bit operating system

    did i miss anything? how do i check my connection bridge thepizzaman?
    *Drools*
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  9. Posts : 143
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       #9

    ^^


    thanks :), but i need to fix it to use it
    Last edited by Diabolical; 03 May 2010 at 22:21.
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  10. Posts : 1,325
    Windows7 Ultimate 64bit
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    Diabolical, you can start with providing screenshots of device manager, especially driver versions, graphic adapter related info, GFX temps, etc...

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