Hello, TH community. I just joined in.
First let me post the basic specs of my AW M18X laptop so things will be a bit clear:
i7 2630QM @ 2.0GHz
2x Radeon 6970M on CrossFire
16GB 1600 RAM
2x 500GB 7200rpm HDDs, I guess they are WDs.
I have an odd problem with the PCI-E speeds on the GPUs, card #1 runs on x1 1.1 with memory type detected as Hynix, and card #2 runs on x8 1.1 with memory type detected as Autodetect. It results in horrible framerates in games (I play FO4, GTA V, FarCry 4). I have Catalyst 15.8 installed now, installed it clean. No overclocks. Tried the GPU-Z render test, 3DMark 11, all the same ultra laggy.
Before this happened, the GPUs were alternating x1 1.1 - x8 1.1 and the normal x8 2.0 - x8 2.0; it ran fine normally then about 10 minutes in game it steps down to those dreaded AGP speeds. Then I get out of the game, about 10 minutes later it comes back to normal. Over and over until last week. Now it's always on x1 1.1 - x8 1.1.
I can't find any solution. I am very frustrated, as I barely used this laptop.
Please help me. Thank you very much, sincerely.
First let me post the basic specs of my AW M18X laptop so things will be a bit clear:
i7 2630QM @ 2.0GHz
2x Radeon 6970M on CrossFire
16GB 1600 RAM
2x 500GB 7200rpm HDDs, I guess they are WDs.
I have an odd problem with the PCI-E speeds on the GPUs, card #1 runs on x1 1.1 with memory type detected as Hynix, and card #2 runs on x8 1.1 with memory type detected as Autodetect. It results in horrible framerates in games (I play FO4, GTA V, FarCry 4). I have Catalyst 15.8 installed now, installed it clean. No overclocks. Tried the GPU-Z render test, 3DMark 11, all the same ultra laggy.
Before this happened, the GPUs were alternating x1 1.1 - x8 1.1 and the normal x8 2.0 - x8 2.0; it ran fine normally then about 10 minutes in game it steps down to those dreaded AGP speeds. Then I get out of the game, about 10 minutes later it comes back to normal. Over and over until last week. Now it's always on x1 1.1 - x8 1.1.
I can't find any solution. I am very frustrated, as I barely used this laptop.
Please help me. Thank you very much, sincerely.