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Hi guys

My brother Irish PXZyan will receive his sexy NANO gpu in a few days time so that leaves him with the r9 280x to dispose of.. sooo that's where I come in.. I'll take it off his hands if it'd be worth the upgrade..
So my options are either to replay my current GPU which is the 7950 Vapor-X to hiscurrent R9 280x.
Or I could go down the route of a crossfire situation..however I have very limited knowledge on the whole crossfire business so I'd like to know from the experts here on what I should actually do.

Any help would be appreciated.

And no doubt I'd need a new PSU for a crossfire job?. ;p
 

Kanan

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Yes you would need a new PSU for that, minimum 800 W and a decent one too - to be on the save side, that is. Also I wouldn't do it. Crossfire is a pain in the ass if you are someone who wants to play new games, AMD isn't really fast with coming up with profiles for it. And even with older games that have crossfire profiles it's not guaranteed that you won't have any problems - basically only AAA games (like BF4, Crysis 3) work perfect with crossfire. So what I would do, just switch the 7950 with the 280X, that's about 10% more speed, or sell both cards and get yourself something better, along the lines of a 290/290X/390, that would be a increase of about 30-40% speed compared to the 280X. ;)
 
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naaaah I won't give it to ya bro :D unless you cough up 300 euro? :laugh:
I spose I could give it to ya for 100 bucks so cause I'm just kind that way :pimp:
 
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