| shakarak said: When you say pair up with an R9 280 do you mean in a crossfire setup? Would I run into other bottlenecks at that point due to my other aging parts? Also I seemed to have a ton of issues with Crossfire (may games not working correctly with it) does crossfiring different cards like that cause any more of an issue? |
Yeah I mean a Crossfire set-up.
You *might* run into bottlenecks.
In-fact, every PC has one piece of hardware that's holding something back and that can change randomly depending what's happening on your screen.
Some games will rely soley on your GPU or might rely on your CPU more.
But even if you're CPU limited, you can still dial-up the GPU-based effects like Anti-Aliasing and receive a minimal performance impact, what *will* happen though is your average framerates will be lower.
As for Crossfireing a Radeon 7950/7970 and the R9 280X/280... There is a really simple explanation. The R9 280X and 280 *are* Radeon 7950's and 7970's, just with a different name, thus they are completely compatible with being crossfired with each other.
As for crossfire specifically, once AMD fix the frame latency issues, you will be far better off (Coming soon!)
You will also notice less issues if you crossfire 2x fast cards rather than 2x low-end or mid-range cards, one being microstutter, plus the Radeon 5000 series is pretty neglected these days in the driver support department, the Radeon 7000/R9 280 will have 3+ years of dedicated improvements.
Besides, you might end up being perfectly happy with a single 7970/7950, which is still more than enough for most games at 1080P easily.
| Frequency said: Its not so much the revision being 2.0 but the likely hood only one slot runs 16x, or if 16x works at all, I've seen a lot of ore quilts using boards that can only muster 2 8x slots or even one 8x and one 4x And if there's a 4x or 1x slot being used for something else it could easilly sharing lanes across the bus like cheap boards often do. |
Impossible to know unless we know the make and model of the PC, even if it is only using a PCI-E 2.0 8x slot, he/she will still see very decent gains.
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