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Multi Card Driver AMD 6000 Poll

Will you buy AMD 6000 Multi card right away or...

  • Waiting for reviews and improvement before I invest

    Votes: 40 39.6%

  • I've been burned and I'm done with AMD multi card

    Votes: 6 5.9%

  • Going AMD 6000 series multi card from day one

    Votes: 8 7.9%

  • Dont plan on going multi card ever so, dont care

    Votes: 47 46.5%
  • Total voters
    101
  • Poll closed .
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Lord_Exodia

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Not trying to start a Flame war but I was just curious if you guys were going to buy dual or multi card amd 6000 series or wait until some reviews come out before investing so much. AMD's multicard drivers were really shaky on the 58xx/59xx series. How confident are you 6000 buyers that these issues would be fixed.

My next rig may actually be AMD 6000 series but that will depend on how well the multi card drivers perform on amd.

Please vote honestly, hopefully Terry will see this thread and this will give him an idea as to how important multi card drivers are to the community and he'll take this input to amd's cat team so they can work harder on the 6700/6800/6900 series. ;)

Votes will be public.
 
I'm still on the fence if I'm going to stick with my existing quad crossfire setup for yet another generation or if I'll upgrade.

My criteria is mainly that I want to upgrade to a single card that has at least as much performance as all 4 of my existing GPUs. That sounds like a tall order but some leaked benchmarks I've seen for the new ATI card so far show it as nearly having that level of performance.

Of course the ultimate plan would be to get a 2nd card, which would obviously result in tons more performance but there will be at least a few months where I'll have just the one card and I don't want a performance downgrade during that time.

I'm not really afraid of AMD's multi-GPU drivers having run a quad-crossfire rig for quite some time now and 4850's in crossfire prior to that. There are some quirks for sure but nothing really game breaking and for the most part things actually work very well.
 
well as you have seen before, crossfire can work great on one driver and then be borked in some games in the next driver. I play games to relieve stress and always having to worry about whether my multi gpu set is working properly or not only adds stress.
 
Of course the smart thing to do is watch for reviews. Just buying it to buy it is a mistake at this point.
 
Godmachine said:
Of course the smart thing to do is watch for reviews. Just buying it to buy it is a mistake at this point.
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again just because it gets a good review at launch doesn't mean much. 5870 crossfire was pretty darn good but on some later drivers it was worse in many cases. it can vary for different games from driver to driver and no review at launch can predict how consistent and reliable it will be over the course of a year or two.
 
I'll wait on reviews and 2nd driver update before deciding whether or not to go with the AMD 6000 series.
 
cannondale06 said:
again just because it gets a good review at launch doesn't mean much. 5870 crossfire was pretty darn good but on some later drivers it was worse in many cases. it can vary for different games from driver to driver and no review at launch can predict how consistent and reliable it will be over the course of a year or two.
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Well I do know that truth quite well having just experienced it.
 
Oops, didnt read all the way thru that this was for multi card. But Ill throw my $.02 in anyway. I will wait a little bit and check out reviews and see if theyre actually a big improvements over the 5000's. Mainly though, Ill wait to see how the pricing shakes out. If the 5850's drop down to $200'ish, thatll be the way I go.
 
6000 doesn't mean a thing to me until I see the prices and benchmarks. 6000 in crossfire means even less.
 
I am done with ATI, I have two 4850s in crossfire which should work fine. Singlely each of the cards perform great, but togther I consider myself lucky if I get an entire week where I can play one of my games for an hour or so without crashing, with my mouse still working or even see what is on my screen the entire time. I had planned on pickup a set of 5850s for my wife. Now she is gonna have to put up with a GF460 GTX 1GB, at least it's driver won't crash every few minutes in game. In a month or so I will be picking up another GF460 GTX 1GB for my use.

To me, the release of the 6000 series of cards is interesting, but given how bad the drivers are, I will not be touching one anytime soon.
 
Ill buy 1 card for now, and wait to see if crossfire scaling gets fixed.

Besides I always like having a single slot card and not deal with microstutter.
 
i have no plans to ever crossfire(because i have no reason to run crossfire) so definitely going with 1 card..
 
kzaske said:
I am done with ATI, I have two 4850s in crossfire which should work fine. Singlely each of the cards perform great, but togther I consider myself lucky if I get an entire week where I can play one of my games for an hour or so without crashing, with my mouse still working or even see what is on my screen the entire time. I had planned on pickup a set of 5850s for my wife. Now she is gonna have to put up with a GF460 GTX 1GB, at least it's driver won't crash every few minutes in game. In a month or so I will be picking up another GF460 GTX 1GB for my use.

To me, the release of the 6000 series of cards is interesting, but given how bad the drivers are, I will not be touching one anytime soon.
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I have a feeling you had other un-solved problems as I've been running 2 x 5750s now since early this year, and haven't had a problem with them. Some games don't properly utilize the 2nd GPU, but no crashes resulting from Crossfire. If you have things set up right in the beginning you should be fine (friend with 4890 crossfire has had a similar experience to me).
 
Definitely waiting on a review here, but even then I still have major reservations about going multi-GPU AMD/Ati again in any of my builds. The past year has been anything but kind.
 
kzaske said:
I am done with ATI, I have two 4850s in crossfire which should work fine. Singlely each of the cards perform great, but togther I consider myself lucky if I get an entire week where I can play one of my games for an hour or so without crashing, with my mouse still working or even see what is on my screen the entire time. I had planned on pickup a set of 5850s for my wife. Now she is gonna have to put up with a GF460 GTX 1GB, at least it's driver won't crash every few minutes in game. In a month or so I will be picking up another GF460 GTX 1GB for my use.

To me, the release of the 6000 series of cards is interesting, but given how bad the drivers are, I will not be touching one anytime soon.
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Doesn't sound like it is just the cards if the problems are that severe. :confused:
 
Flyinfinni said:
I have a feeling you had other un-solved problems as I've been running 2 x 5750s now since early this year, and haven't had a problem with them. Some games don't properly utilize the 2nd GPU, but no crashes resulting from Crossfire. If you have things set up right in the beginning you should be fine (friend with 4890 crossfire has had a similar experience to me).
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I have several friends that have had no issues what so ever with there crossfired cards. A few have pushed thier cards to levels far beyound anything I would dare and they still have fewer problems than I do.
I have tried updating/backdating the drivers, even full format reinstalls (for me that means using fdisk to wipe everything on the drive). Changed/updated chipset drivers.
ITSTHINKING said:
Doesn't sound like it is just the cards if the problems are that severe. :confused:
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The cards themselves seem to be fine, it's the drivers that are causing the problems.

In summary, 10.3 worked perfectly for about two months then after an MS update to dotnet they started acting up. I updated to 10.4, no change, 10.5,10.6, 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 the problems have just gotten worse. I am impressed with the hardware, now if they could just fix the software.
 
kzaske said:
I have several friends that have had no issues what so ever with there crossfired cards. A few have pushed thier cards to levels far beyound anything I would dare and they still have fewer problems than I do.
I have tried updating/backdating the drivers, even full format reinstalls (for me that means using fdisk to wipe everything on the drive). Changed/updated chipset drivers.

The cards themselves seem to be fine, it's the drivers that are causing the problems.

In summary, 10.3 worked perfectly for about two months then after an MS update to dotnet they started acting up. I updated to 10.4, no change, 10.5,10.6, 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 the problems have just gotten worse. I am impressed with the hardware, now if they could just fix the software.
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Are you sure it wasn't a PCIe slot issue? I know I had a motherboard where one of the PCI-e x16 slots was bad, and anything I plugged into it would work fine in 2d, but when I started a game or any 3d accelerated full screen program, it would crash withing 5-10 min. I thought that was drivers for a while too until I realized that if I swapped my card to the other slot, it worked fine. RMA'd the mobo and everything worked. Just saying there are other possible issues than just drivers (could have been a PSU issue as well if it worked with one and not 2 cards).
 
I guess I'm waiting on reviews. The GTX4XX series is a bust for me. The GTX470/80 is ok but too loud and hot. The GTX460 doesn't offer much improvement over my GTX260's. Truthfully I'm waiting for a real upgrade to come out of Nvidia, but since that could be a year away I'll upgrade to Crossfire 58XX/68XX if the Eyefinity reviews are ok.
 
AMD's multicard drivers were really shaky on the 58xx/59xx series.
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Not for me, I'm running a 5970 and before that I was running 2 4870s in crossfire, and both configurations only had the occasional problem, nothing more significant that we see with single GPU cards.

I'm quite interested to see what they do as a dual GPU variant for this series, if they sit behind the 300W limit then we wont see anything better than the 5970, if they hammer past that I may very well sell my 5970 and upgrade. I think the lack of decent PC games has more of an impact on my decision to upgrade than drivers ever could.
 
Wow the video card forum attendance has gone up about 50% now that the 6000 series launch draws upon us in very few days. Averaging around 220 before there are currently over 330 people on the videocard forum as I post this. This will be the final bump on this as the poll will close in a few days. I want as much feedback as possible and what better time than now.
 
I'll never go multi-GPU, so CFX work is a waste of their time if they want my money.

I'm an engineer, and I work with unstable, overly-complex setups on a daily basis. I know the value of keeping things simple, so that is my mantra for my personal computers.
 
I'm waiting on reviews. At this point I don't have definit plans on going multicard.... just don't have the money to do so right now.

I would like to go multicard at some point though since I haven't had a chance to play with a multicard setup.
 
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