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Micro-Stuttering

josh1413

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I read this article: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-stutter-crossfire,2995.html

I have noticed this micro stuttering a little bit. But the author makes a statement saying " It almost makes sense why AMD doesn't include a second CrossFire connector on these cards now; doing so would decimate any reason to spend extra on the company's highest-end (and highest-margin) cards." ( http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-stutter-crossfire,2995-7.html)

So after reading it, it got me wondering if i were to connect a 2nd crossfire bridge to my 2 5870's would it alleviate the micro stuttering?
 
I think you missed the context of the statement you're quoting. It seems to be in regards to triple x-fire performance of midrange cards versus performance of the MUCH more expensive (and higher margin) card models.

What I got out of the review was that there's little point to AMD putting double connectors on the lower end cards from their profit perspective when 3 of those lower end cards put the performance of their highest end card to shame (in some applications) for less $$$

**edit: to add, I don't think just adding the second x-fire link to a pair of cards will alleviate the micro-stutter. Can't hurt to try tho, huh!? ;-)
 
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I was just about to post this same link because recently on this forum it was made to like like I was FoS when I said multi-gpu can cause micro stuttering. One self proclaimed expert (game developer) claims it is cause by HDD loading of the graphics into ram and not the dual video cards and a timing issue. If he is reading this then bollocks to you mate, I'm right and you are WRONG.
 
One self proclaimed expert (game developer) claims it is cause by HDD loading of the graphics into ram and not the dual video cards and a timing issue.
Yeah, that's just ordinary stutter, not micro-stutter. 95% of people don't seem to know the difference.
 
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