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ATI CrossFire instability and horizontal bands?

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Mar 15, 20264839 views
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I recently added another ATI 5870 card to my system to experiment with ATI Crossfire (dual GPU) performance increases. However, I've had a lot of intermittent stability problems, most seriously a set of oscillating horizontal bands which appear during gameplay and become quite severe, to the point …

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Primary Adapter     
Graphics Card Manufacturer  Powered by AMD  
Graphics Chipset    ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series   
Device ID   6898    
Vendor  1002 …

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Fix for: ATI CrossFire instability and horizontal bands?

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This was a tough one. After many hours of trial and error, someone mentioned to me that overclocking could be the issue: overclocking can create issues with dual card setups (both CrossFireX and SLI.) You have to be careful about PCIe timings. I tho…

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