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disolitude on 05 July 2012
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drkohler said:
disolitude said:

With a 6670 in crossfire, 5800k chip should have no issues doing 30-40 fps on most games in 1080p, with 720p to fall back on in extreme circumstances.

In this particular case, I'd still go with an Xeon E3-1230 v2 or Xeon E3-1240 v2.

This "hidden" crossfire stuff is just yelling for trouble (microstuttering, power consumption etc). The Xeons use considerably less power than any AMD chip, and a better graphics card always wins against this "hidden" Xfire kludge.

While those Xeons do use slightly less power and would demolish the AMD APUs in terms of x86 dual threded CPU performance, the A8 3870K APU + 6670 will give it quite a spanking for anything GPU based, including gaming. That is unless you add a dedicated GPU to the Xenon which would make thw whole setup 3X the cost of an AMD APU + 6670. I think for an HTPC with gaming, the Xenon would be overkill.

I've had 4 SLI/Crossfire setups in the last 3 years, starting with GTX 260s, HD 6850s, GTX 560Tis and finally dual GTX 580s and I've not seen too many issues with dual GPU setups. Considering that AMD openly advertises that APU + 6670 work wonderfully together, you'd figure they would have the drivers optimized by now.