New Rig

[Ash]

Just something I noticed off the bat: turn off your virtual memory allocation for that SSD...

Way ahead of you, that was one of the first changes I made, my page file was 33GB.  I didn't remove it completely I just made it 2GB.  I also turned off Hibernation which freed up another 15GB.

Hmm....five monitors....

[Sared]

Also, this may just be a Sapphire thing, but make sure you're using both available bridge connectors, as that'll overcome the 8x secondary PCIE2 bottleneck. Unless you've got some kind of unicorn-powered motherboard that does that already.

[Ash]

Also, this may just be a Sapphire thing, but make sure you're using both available bridge connectors, as that'll overcome the 8x secondary PCIE2 bottleneck. Unless you've got some kind of unicorn-powered motherboard that does that already.

I had seen that there were two bridge connections on each card but didn't know which one to use or if I had to use both.  I'll have to get another bridge cable and test it out.  Thanks.

[Sared]

Dismiss that, just looked up your motherboard and you're plugged into two PCIE3 ports, so no bottleneck.

With PCIE2 most boards were limited by only having one 16x slot, and those that had two or more were again limited by the second slot only being able to run at 8x speeds during crossfire. Using both bridges overcame that by improving communication speed between cards.

I haven't done any research on PCIE3 so whether or not a bridge connector will/won't help/hurt you is completely outside my realm of expertise.