Best CPU for a Single ATI Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Radeon HD 5870 CrossFireX Configurat

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Originally Posted by railer

How? lets say hypothetically i have 2x5870 with each scoring 20K in 3dmark. Explain to me how its mathematically feasible to get 41K in CF. And lets drop artificial "rounding" when 3dmark for some reason is "set" to give me the most 19K with one card. I might be missing something but i just cant compute this in my head.

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3d mark is a linear scale, but some things arnt. so say that u get a scoring method that was (cpu^2)*(gpu^2)/cpu*gpu. so if u had a cpu score of 2 then a gpu of 2 then u would have a score of 4 but if u had 2 for cpu and 4 for gpu then u would have a score of 16. and frame smoothing and target fps limmit the card so if its set up wrong it wont be the full potential of the gpu, UT3 games have this problem

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Originally Posted by LedHed

benchmarks are obviously going to use SLI/CF better than games, but no one really cares about benchmark performance except benchers. The question is how much FPS do you get in an actual game between one 5770 and two.

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I am getting ~90% in Dirt 2.
DX11 coding is a big part of it.

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Probably why they "forgot" to test it.
Also did they use dx11 for Battleforge?
If not that means that out of 3 (that I know) dx11 games that are out atm,they tested 0 ?

X-fail.

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Originally Posted by railer

How many times it has to be repeated that you can not get more then 100% in CF or SLI. There is no over 100% increase period , not possible .
It just boggles me that people could believe that 5+5 in some instances could equal 11.

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Yeah, funny, huh?
Especially remembering the MSI and Hydra thread...