greenhut Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Does anyone know if there is specific Crossfire support for Black Shark? Newegg/Paypal is doing a great promo making a 4850X2 only about $230 after rebates. My understanding is that without specific support, the card will only perform as a single 4850. The 4850X2 is beating the GTX280 at hight res on virtually every big name title. My concern is that BS is a bit.. obscure and has limitted distribution at the moment. If it does not have Crossfire yet, what will it take form AMD to add it? I imagine Lock-On has Crossfire support? thanks! -- ASRock Z370 Gaming K6 | Intel 8600K @ 5.0| 16 GB DDR4 3000 | nVidia GTX 1080Ti | Samsung 850 Pro 512GB M.2 | TrackIR 5 | Rift CV1 | TM HOTAS Warthog | Win 10 x64 | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenhut Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 BTW, I am taling about AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering) support. Apparantly Crossfire defaults back to basic support for all titles (unlike SLI). -- ASRock Z370 Gaming K6 | Intel 8600K @ 5.0| 16 GB DDR4 3000 | nVidia GTX 1080Ti | Samsung 850 Pro 512GB M.2 | TrackIR 5 | Rift CV1 | TM HOTAS Warthog | Win 10 x64 | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purg Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 I don't think you'll get much benefit from the card for BS, it's more CPU bound than graphics bound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenhut Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 I don't think you'll get much benefit from the card for BS, it's more CPU bound than graphics bound. I appreciate the comment, and this is a typical comment regarding BS, however there are several documented cases on the forums where a video card upgrade significantly moves performance. Now it may be that once you get to a 4850 class card it ceases to matter, but I don't think so. -- ASRock Z370 Gaming K6 | Intel 8600K @ 5.0| 16 GB DDR4 3000 | nVidia GTX 1080Ti | Samsung 850 Pro 512GB M.2 | TrackIR 5 | Rift CV1 | TM HOTAS Warthog | Win 10 x64 | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feuerfalke Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 I don't recommend it: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=34500&page=4 BS doesn't support multiple CPU or GPU, so the benefit is pretty low and it may cause more trouble than fun. I'd rather invest the money into a faster board, fast memory or CPU. :thumbup: Gigabyte GA-Z87-UD3H | i7 4470k @ 4.5 GHz | 16 GB DDR3 @ 2.133 Ghz | GTX 1080 | LG 55" @ 4K | Cougar 1000 W | Creative X-Fi Ti | TIR5 | CH HOTAS (with BU0836X-12 Bit) + Crosswind Pedals | Win10 64 HP | X-Keys Pro 20 & Pro 54 | 2x TM MFD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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