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HIS HD6990 Dual CrossfireX Review

Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter game. It is the sequel to Valve Corporation’s award-winning Left 4 Dead.

Like the original, Left 4 Dead 2 is set during the aftermath of an apocalyptic pandemic, and focuses on four survivors fighting against hordes of the infected. The survivors must fight their way through levels, interspersed with safe houses that act as checkpoints, with the goal of reaching a rescue vehicle at the campaign’s finale. The gameplay is procedurally altered by an artificial intelligence engine dubbed the “Director” that monitors the players’ performance and adjust the scenario to provide a dynamic challenge. Several new features have been introduced: new types of infected, melee weapons, and a story-arc that connects the game’s five campaigns together.

Valve's Source engine is no longer that taxing, but still, at 768ox1080 the HD6990 is able to power through this game without a problem. A few years ago we were seeing these frame rates from hardware across a single screen.

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12 comments

  1. lol, bet you wish they could run in a 3x 6x setup !

  2. 14,000 in 3dmark 11. I thought i was doing well, breaking 5k last week 🙁 I suck.

  3. Wow. just wow. AMD are owning everyone this week……..

  4. YAY! 48k in vantage. insane, this card just friggin rocks.

  5. I wouldnt be getting all too excited just yet, Nvidia have yet to unleash the GTX590 which I would think might kick the 6990’s arse.

  6. The nvidia architecture is slightly more powerful overall, but its all about temperatures, otherwise they would both slap three cores on a PCB and duke it out. its not quite that simple.

    its actually a feat of engineering in itself that AMD got this crappy single fan to cool such a powerful card. I almost choked on my cornflakes when I saw that tiny red fan, used YET again.

  7. Man I’d love four screens and two of these. Best start saving.

    Oh yeah and a new psu

    And a new CPU

    Damn…..

  8. Crazy frame rates, do we really need kind of power? Best game in months was dead space 2 and it could run well with a 6850.

    Portal 2 should be the same….

  9. Hey quick question. Whats this sticker over the bios switch, do you void warranty by running the card at full speed? Is it dangerous? I really really don’t get this…

  10. hell when you limit an overclocked 12 core intel processor at 2560 then you know you have something special !

  11. One thing is certain, you wont be running this setup on a 650W psu. I think a 1200w is a minimum for this setup. might get away with 1000w, but it would be rather highly loaded with the rest of the components in the mix.

  12. That performance is just stupid. as in stupid good, not stupid sucky.