Asus ares + xfx 5870

[Misklahr]

Hi

I am currently running my system with an ASUS ARES graphics card. I also have an XFX 5870 (http://rwlabs.com/images/articles/gt...0_5870_007.JPG) graphics card, and want to connect them and run them in crossfire.
I am pretty sure that it will work, since ASUS ARES is 5870 x 2.
So, my questions are:
Is it possible to run them in CF? And in that case, how do I proceed?

[HiVizMan]

Stick a crossfireX bridge on them. Boot into OS and enable in CCC.

You might have to reinstall the AMD driver but that is about it

[Misklahr]

Sounds great!
I still got one more question:
The ASUS ARES is a 2x2GB GPU, while my 5870 is a 1GB GPU. I know that the ARES will scale down to 1GB.
Will the 3 GPUs perform better @ 3x1GB, or will the ASUS ARES alone perform better with 2x2GB.

[Spoony]

yes it works no problems at all. mine was all great then a GPU went bang on my Ares but that was NOT a crossfire problem it was a card problem

[HiVizMan]

CrossfireX is great in that you can have different cards together. Unlike the green team where I could not get my cards to play nice.

[Misklahr]

yes it works no problems at all. mine was all great then a GPU went bang on my Ares but that was NOT a crossfire problem it was a card problem

Too bad that your card broke, my first ARES did also break, but I got it fixed.

CrossfireX is great in that you can have different cards together. Unlike the green team where I could not get my cards to play nice.

It sure is nice to be @ the red team

However, I still wonder which configuration will perform best:
ASUS ARES 2x2GB
or
ASUS ARES 2x1GB + 5870 1GB

[HiVizMan]

If you have them go for the ARES 2 x2GB.

But if you are going to be buying them I would think hard about buying older kit. I might think about selling the one I currently had and looking at a 7970 card

[SaLSouL]

I'm about to put a cat amongst the pigeons here but because the Ares is a single card with shared vram of 4gb it does not scale down with a 2nd card i.e 5870 with only 1gb vram . they are added together, if it was 3 single cards with 2gb 1gb 1gb it would scale to 3gb total.

I have proof thanks to my g510 keyboard and afterburner .

I have an Asus Ares + PCS HD 5870 total vram 5gb i have picutres of my vram usage touching 4gb which is not possible if it scales back to 3gb ??? ..

These are my own experiences



this shows system ram usage. I alt+tabed out of BF3 running @ 5760x1080

here is the vram usage

forum 0081.jpg

[Spoony]

stick witht he Asus Ares card, its EPIC i know i have one tilla GPU went pop, butted i never got it back she was stunning for al games and would STILL kick ass today.

if you wanna sell it let me know i would gladly take it off yoru hands