Do Crossfire or Wait or Buy?

Laki89 · Jun 9, 2017

RealNeil said:
As for the 1200W PSU, I'm running both RX480 8GB cards on one 750W Bronze PSU and it works great. I'm having no issues running benches either.

Op has Fury X card, and putting those two cards in crossfire will burn his/your power supply on first 3D intensive scene.
Those two cards can pull 600 watt or more power in a moment
In best case PSU protection will just shutdown pc without any harm

Ebo · Jun 9, 2017

Laki89 said:
Op has Fury X card, and putting those two cards in crossfire will burn his/your power supply on first 3D intensive scene.
Those two cards can pull 600 watt or more power in a moment
In best case PSU protection will just shutdown pc without any harm

OP has 775 watt PSU, and IF thats a good quality, he should be allright, but it comming close to full capacity. That will only happen if both GPU's are running 100% all the time which will never happen, no matter which games OP is playing, so I'd say go for xfire.

Liviu Cojocaru · Jun 9, 2017

I would say wait for Vega and then decide on whether to get Vega or go for the 1080Ti, crossfire is way too much hassle

Laki89 · Jun 9, 2017

Ebo said:
OP has 775 watt PSU, and IF thats a good quality, he should be allright, but it comming close to full capacity. That will only happen if both GPU's are running 100% all the time which will never happen, no matter which games OP is playing, so I'd say go for xfire.

You have no idea what you talking about, no offense
He is on full capacity now with 130 watt CPU and 300 watt GPU
Adding one more power hungry beast will lead to certain death of PSU
Take a look to: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/7226/amd-radeon-r9-fury-video-cards-crossfire/index.html

r9 · Jun 9, 2017

Downside you will have to overpay for Fury because of the mining thing.
Upside you can sell your for good amount.
I would just sell it on ebay and throw some money on top.

FordGT90Concept · Jun 9, 2017

It's probably going to be near impossible to get a Vega until long after launch because they'll be gobbled up for mining.

Don't do Crossfire, support is too iffy. Either go with a GTX 1080 Ti now (before they run out of stock too) or commit to waiting for Vega knowing it could be another year yet.

EarthDog · Jun 12, 2017

Laki89 said:
You have no idea what you talking about, no offense
He is on full capacity now with 130 watt CPU and 300 watt GPU
Adding one more power hungry beast will lead to certain death of PSU
Take a look to: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/7226/amd-radeon-r9-fury-video-cards-crossfire/index.html

@Laki

You should have noticed that value was FROM THE WALL. Assuming they have a 90 efficient psu, that is 585W actual load.

If he has a good quality 750W psu, he does 775w in fact, then he is EASILY ok... as the link YOU provided shows us.

eidairaman1 · Jun 12, 2017

EarthDog said:
@Laki

You should have noticed that value was FROM THE WALL. Assuming they have a 90 efficient psu, that is 585W actual load.

If he has a good quality 750W psu, he does 775w in fact, then he is EASILY ok... as the link YOU provided shows us.

Example My card, they call for a 750W unit, however that is a Generic PSU, higher quality units have a considerable amount of leeway for selection. I went with mine because im overclocking and intend on a 2nd gpu.

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Do Crossfire or Wait or Buy?

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