Quote Originally Posted by Ket View Post
1. You don't need to change the motherboard or any of your hardware. Whoever told you that you needed to do that is.. well.. this forum will banana dance men out the words required

2. The NF200 chip does have additional latency costs, but nothing that should effect FPS too badly.

The more than likely cause for your FPS drops are either;

A: Poor coding in the game, probably fixable with a patch if FPS dips like you have are a common problem
B: Poor AMD drivers / profiles. In this case you just have to play the waiting game to see if AMD fixes it.
C: Of course, make sure all your other drivers are bang up to date.
D: Try a HDD defrag with a good defrag utility like diskeeper.
Thanks for the response.

I've suspected drivers first of course, but I've spoken with people who run Eyefinity with three monitors and battlefield 3 with full ultra settings and don't have my issue. However, they run the AMD side fo the fence, "Dragon Platform", AMD 990FX Mobo, 6 core CPU, and Graphics. They claim they have no issues with their crossfire rig, but I personally have never seen this setup.

My System Specs:

i7 2600k cpu.
Asrock Extreme7 Gen3 mobo.
2 EAH6970 Graphics cards (3rd arrives Monday, but tested tri-fire)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit w/sp1.
3 Dell U2412M LCD e-IPS panels.
1 I-INC 28" LCD TN Panel
16gb Mushkin 1600mhz DDR3.
6 2TB Seagate Constellation drives (4 in raid 10, 2 single utility drives).
1 OCZ 60gb Vertex 3 SSD (caching mode)
Antec HCP1200 PSU
Lanboy Air Case

I'm running Sandy Bridge UEFI boot 4TB Raid 10 volume (2 partitions) with OCZ Vertex 3 caching the entire thing so I don't think it's disk related.

I spoke to AMD who suggested the RADEONPRO utility, but I didn't have much luck with that. They did say on the phone they know they have issues with their drivers, but also said the game has issues that need to be addressed as well, and that both EA and them are working towards the fix.

I've had the CrossfireX setup since December 2010 so well aware of the driver waiting game of this past year, but I'm new to Eyefinity so this is a little learning curve happening, thanks again for the input.