ab.aeterno
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After pulling my hair out dealing with performance issues running a 2x 7970 Ghz Crossfire in Skyrim, I decided to look at my motherboard manual on a whom and noticed my PCIe 3.0 slots are 16x or 8x/8x. As I did not initially intend to do a Crossfire setup (grabbed a second card on fire sale), I don't remember if I looked into this and checked if that could be a performance problem.
Any thoughts? Vanilla Skyrim has frame rate issues when I run the intro (using it as my unchanging benchmark of sorts), dropping to mid-40s approaching the city of Helgen. That seems completely crazy for two good cards combined with an overclocked i5 3570k @ 4.0Ghz.
Any other hardware or software issues to check? I'll be trying each card individually tonight.
Any thoughts? Vanilla Skyrim has frame rate issues when I run the intro (using it as my unchanging benchmark of sorts), dropping to mid-40s approaching the city of Helgen. That seems completely crazy for two good cards combined with an overclocked i5 3570k @ 4.0Ghz.
Any other hardware or software issues to check? I'll be trying each card individually tonight.