Preparing for the P180HM with ati 6990 xfire

Hey guys,I've purchased the P180HM from Logical Blue One in Australia.I'll be requiring some help on what software to download/stuff to do in order to bring my laptop to peak performance.
The specs:

i7 2760

2x ATI Radeon 6990m (Blackcomb XTX) with 2GB Dedicated Graphics

12GB DDR3 1333Mhz system memory

128gb Intel 520 SSD

500gb 7200 rpm hdd

DVD+/-RW DVD Burner

Standard 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless Card

Windows 7 Home Premium

System cost: 2.7k$

What I'm mostly worried about is configuring the 6990 xfire graphic cards as I've heard its a pain.Could someone list out/link the updates/software I require to achieve optimum performance with them?

Thanks guys

 

12.x drivers and your good. Thats about it.

 

Could you please specify which version would I need? Would the latest one (12.2 ) be best? Also, is there a need to download the AMD Catalyst™ Application Profiles or radeon pro?
Are you able to run skyrim on ultra? What about mass effect 3 and witcher 2?

Thanks

 

Getting mine tomorrow hopefully i dont miss ups happy someone thought of this . From what i heard 12. anything drivers and your fine. Its not like back in the day where sli/crossfire wont run anything or get some type of gain from dual cards... WOOt cant wait

 

I run 12.2, they work excellent. Yep and skyrim runs maxed out. No need to run any custom profiles. Enable xfire and your all set.

Witcher 2 you will be running settings less than max, but thats a game that even brings high end desktop video cards to its knees, but regardless it will still run and look amazing.

 

SICK specs! You should be able to get the correct drivers for your video cards at AMD's drivers section. Chipset drivers and such at intel's website. It's all new hardware so finding drivers shouldn't be so troublesome.

When I bought my clevo the reseller also gave me a CD with all the necessary drivers on it and surprisingly they were all still up to date. Didn't you get a CD like this as well?

As for performance; I doubt that you'll need any tweaking. With such specs even heavy games such as BF3 should be no problem whatsoever maxed out.

I would monitor the heat though if I were you. My hd6990m tends to get a little hot under a heavy workload and I only have 1 hd6990m in my machine.

 

You can just grab the latest drivers, no need for the extra software. You can also typically find the latest compatible drivers in this thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/573379-clevo-driver-thread.html

As for gaming, this site should give you a pretty decent idea of benchmarks on most games with Crossfire 6990's:

AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire - Notebookcheck.net Tech

 

Appreciate the help guys.Thanks
@ Hefner: Already have a cooling pad ready for the laptop,its a cm storm sf-19

Anthony, the drivers linked on the webpage don't seem to have been updated this year,have there been no new releases this year?

 

Check the end of that thread, the first page is only infrequently updated. New drivers are posted there all the time though.

 

I run Mass Effect 3 completely maxed out with only 1 video card, im not sure what the frames are like but i havent noticed any choppiness or anything, its not a very graphic intensive games, character models look pretty good but environments which tend to stress the card the most are a bit bland

 

The 12.3 RC drivers are pretty great. The most stable drivers I've seen from AMD in a while.