Crossfiring Sapphire R7 260x OC?

aliniceboy · Dec 30, 2013

Hi guys.
I have a Sapphire R7 260x and it's really working well.
I want to know is it ok to buy another R7 260x OC and crossfire it?
Is it worth it?
Does the performance changes Significantly?
My rig:
MOBO: Asus P8B75-V LGA1155 B75 MB
CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-3220 ivy Bridge Processor
Ram: 2x4GB 1600 Corsair
PSU: Green 600Watt
Thanks In Advance

Law-II · Dec 30, 2013

Hi

With current hardware motherboard is limited: as follows
Slot One PCIe x16 @ 3.0 complience; *opprates at 2.0 [*due to i3-3220 restrictions]
Slot Two PCIe x16 @ 2.0 complience
Note: adding another Sapphire R7 260x will limit the Slot One to PCIe x8 and Slot Two to PCIe x8 [this is normal and x8 bandwidth has not been saturated thus far]
saying this the full potential of the cards may be restricted by the CPU in multithreaded game engines and *lack's PCIe 3.0 complience [*approx 2~8fps]

**Crossfire is limited to game engine support [so depends what games you like to play]

Note: maybe sell the Sapphire R7 260x and put more money in to get a single vga card with better specs

atb

Law-II

aliniceboy · Dec 30, 2013

I think I'm gonna sell the R7 260x and buy a new Graphics Card
Thanks dear Law-II for your response

XSI · Dec 30, 2013

i don't think it will be even 2 fps drop because of x8 or pcie 2. these things have minimal effect for today's hardware.
as for crossfire or a new card, i would say it depends on two things financially: how much of the budget aliniceboy has and how much he can get for his card.
other than that if he can live with some driver hassle or some microstutter, i think he will be fine, btw, just check some 260x crossfire reviews
i found one for you its 7790, but its basically same card. so here it is on techpowerup:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7790_CrossFire/9.html
pretty close to 7970 performance so you have something to compere too. money\performance

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Crossfiring Sapphire R7 260x OC?

aliniceboy

Law-II

aliniceboy

XSI