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6970 CF or SSD?

I have an SSD and wouldn't go back. Stuff loads much faster in games I play and there are way less hicups. Someone posted a great 'audio' component to a game developer conference in which Intel layed out the advantages of SSD showing some real-world gameplay benchmark results. You could see a lot less 'hitches' and 'micro-pauses' waiting on data with the SSD than traditional hard drive.

Frames were produced more consistently with equal spacing. So rather than 10 frames really fast at the start of a second, then 500ms with no frames and then 50 frames being generated in the last 100ms it was much more 6 per 100ms averaging. Whether that translates to actual smoothness, its hard to say but in the gameplay testing, gameplay events occured sooner with the SSD and players were reaching the 'first boss' if you will in about 3/4th the time having killed/gone through the same route over repeated tests.
 
So after working on the situation for days and not wanting to just give up and reformat I think I finally got things working. To make a long story short, I believe my main problems were being caused by CCC settings that work great for a single card setup but not so much for xfire. I basically changed any setting that I could to "use application settings" and messed around with other settings like the catalyst A.I.

After running Unigine's benchmark on a single card then xfire i think I found the results i was looking for. I get almost double the frame rate now in benchmarks and in most games. The only thing that is aggravating now are the microshutters I see when the games are pushing over 100 FPS.

At least this is a step in the right direction. At this point i'm pleased with my choice to get a second 6970 but it still needs some tweaking. With more games being written to be compatible with xfire and eyefinity i have high hopes.
 
I have a Ocz Agility 2 SSD and im Running 3 6970's in Tri-Fire, I could never give up my video cards over a SSD. Dont get me wrong i love my SSD windows is fast but i like my games playing silky smooth and fast.
 
Marcdaddy said:
I have a Ocz Agility 2 SSD and im Running 3 6970's in Tri-Fire, I could never give up my video cards over a SSD. Dont get me wrong i love my SSD windows is fast but i like my games playing silky smooth and fast.
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You cant play (all games) smooth and silky, without SSD.
 
FireBean said:
And why not? Are you running out of RAM and need to rely on your SSD?
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He's talking about games which load content on-the-fly. The hitches you can experience streaming data from a mechanical drive simply don't happen with an SSD.
 
rincewind said:
He's talking about games which load content on-the-fly. The hitches you can experience streaming data from a mechanical drive simply don't happen with an SSD.
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Name a few. I have NEVER heard of a game that pulls data right from the hdd instead of going through the ram.
 
A few sandbox games stream data off the HDD. Wow is one, Oblivion especially with mods, FO3, New Vegas, GTA4, the Witcher 2, Risen, Gothic 3, etc. I doubt that they bypass the ram but these games hit the disk a lot during gameplay.
 
Edit: Nevermind. Look up the benchmarks for yourself. Besides loading, games (even the ones you mentioned) hardly use the HDD at all. With the a proper page file setup, you won't notice any difference between SSD and HDD in terms of frames per second.
 
No, but you won't see the hitching that you would with a standard hdd. Try it out for yourself.


I'm not going to argue with you, if you think that some number like average framerate tells the whole story when it comes to performance I don't know what to say. Yeah, a game with a 15GB folder like The Witcher 2 or Wow that hardly ever has a loading screen hardly used the HDD at all, sure.
 
SSD, crossfire stinks. I wouldnt touch crossfire with a 10 foot pole ever again. SSD is the best advancement in computer technology since the dual core, regular old hard drives are only good for storage nowadays, try launching 5 applications from a regular hard drive, then do it on an ssd, if you still think an ssd is overated, then you are in denial.
 
I guess the draw of SSD's has never hit me.

I don't boot my machine 45 times a day, so I don't care if it takes 30 seconds or 2 minutes. Mine runs 24/7, and only gets shut down for updates.

Perhaps system stability should be your guys concerns if your biggest thing you can crow about for SSD performance is how fast it reboots you :D

Will I get one? Sure, probably after the 920 loses some of its steam, but for now. Meh. Bring on the 2nd video card. BF3 in Eyefinity is sexytime
 
reaper12 said:
SSD is overrated. Work out your issues with crossfire.
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Bingo. I bought an SSD and sold it three weeks later and went back to my WD Black.

SSD's are massively over rated..


Go with the Crossfire and work out the issue...Well worth it
 
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