Recent content by Bojamijams

Good review Daniel. I would suggest re-testing the previous tests with the new BIOS since it seems to improve a lot of things, not just mouse/xmp/voltages. ETeknix did their review with F5a and didn't have any of the issues you guys seemed to have...

You have to be really careful with CLU. It is conductive and if you put on too much, some may leak out over time and short something on your mobo.

Would it not make more sense to explain the lower temperatures as simply having better TIM application when you installed the CPU on this mobo? Possibly combined with lower ambient as well? Or simply whatever software you used to read the temperature doesn't properly read from a Z97? I see no...

Well for whatever reason it will not work properly in Mantle but in regular DX11 crossfire now works just fine in 14.3... so... kind of there.. almost... screw it, I'll take it :)

Damn it. Used DDU to remove everything in safe mode, it removed some references to the 6900 series which was the old card I had before I got the two 290's so I was happy to see that, but BF4 still will not utilize both cards with 14.3. Sigh.

Payment sent :) Now off to clean

Yes. Graphics are not all Ultra because I was running on single GPU and wanted 120FPS.. will load it down some more tonight

Well BF4 works now with Crossfire. The trick is now to get it working with 14.x drivers somehow. Skyrim not working is disappointing but runs great enough on a single GPU that I can let it slide. I will send you the LTC when I get home tonight :)

I'm still seeing the alternating video cards usage on Skyrim. But, from what I remember, Crossfire has always been odd in that game. Maybe if I can get 14.x working in BF4, it'll also work in Skyrim.

Well it would seem that going back to 13.12 made it work in battlefield. But none of the 14.x drivers would work for me. I guess that means I need to do a thorough clean in Safe Mode? I always used AMD's uninstall utility to try the 14.x drivers but I guess it isn't good enough?

Would a Repair Windows installation be enough of a 'reinstall' for Win 8? I've never used it but from what I understand it basically reinstalls windows while keeping all your files. Or for these purposes would it not be enough?

Well it's not just making it look like they're not running correctly, I really see no increase in FPS on Crossfire vs Single GPU so it's more then just what AB shows the usage to be.

Inconsistent how? Doesn't save your settings or actually causes issues?

Yeah I just downloaded Afterburner last night (was using Asus GPU Tweak before that but it didn't have Disable ULPS option). I downloaded the Beta version so it is the latest. I'm not home right now so I haven't tried anything quite yet, but I'm building a nice list of things to try. I'll...

Heh I had read that post before :) I tried with both cards at stock 947/1000 (in effect downclocking the DCII) but the issue persisted. I suppose I can try disabling frame pacing and also going back to WHQL drivers (13.12 I believe). Will update later tonight as I try it.