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- Feb 7, 2011
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- Motherboard
- 10.8.2
- CPU
- i7 socket 1366 / i5 z77
- Graphics
- gtx 670 4gb ATi 5770 xfire
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Ok so here is the situation I have(had) my hackintosh running 2x sapphire 5770's set up with crossfire bridge and running 3 monitors (for eyfinity in windows). On the mac I use 2 dvi ports on one card and 1 on the other so all monitors work with graphics enabler on. It works well and no issues.
In windows it works well to as when crossfire loads all 3 monitors run off one card and I can then enable eyfinity.
As I like to play quite a bit of bf3 I figured I'd upgrade a bit as the 6870's can be found fairly cheap now and give a good bang for the buck, and crossfire performance promised to be pretty sweet.
So have now installed 2x XFX 6870 cards running in crossfire, same setup as with the 5770's. I can get all the ports on a single card to work it seems using the mangabey frame buffer, although the mini dvi socket only actually seems to come on after you go to sleep or something, but its no issue.
Now he problem I'm having is actually over in the winblows camp. The performance in bf3 is actually quite terrible. I was expecting great things but these things stutter, pause and crash and i have tried every setting under the sun and different drivers to no avail. The performance is worse than my old cards.
Thus I'm considering putting the 5770's back in and sending the 6 series cards back. But Would or should I go for a 6970? is one of those going to work and are there any that will support 3 monitors in os x and if so by which connectors (dvi/mdp/hdmi etc). My budget can stretch to 1x6970 but thats my limit really.
Is it worth it or should I wait it out for 7 series support??
Any advice at this point is much appreciated...
In windows it works well to as when crossfire loads all 3 monitors run off one card and I can then enable eyfinity.
As I like to play quite a bit of bf3 I figured I'd upgrade a bit as the 6870's can be found fairly cheap now and give a good bang for the buck, and crossfire performance promised to be pretty sweet.
So have now installed 2x XFX 6870 cards running in crossfire, same setup as with the 5770's. I can get all the ports on a single card to work it seems using the mangabey frame buffer, although the mini dvi socket only actually seems to come on after you go to sleep or something, but its no issue.
Now he problem I'm having is actually over in the winblows camp. The performance in bf3 is actually quite terrible. I was expecting great things but these things stutter, pause and crash and i have tried every setting under the sun and different drivers to no avail. The performance is worse than my old cards.
Thus I'm considering putting the 5770's back in and sending the 6 series cards back. But Would or should I go for a 6970? is one of those going to work and are there any that will support 3 monitors in os x and if so by which connectors (dvi/mdp/hdmi etc). My budget can stretch to 1x6970 but thats my limit really.
Is it worth it or should I wait it out for 7 series support??
Any advice at this point is much appreciated...