What type of AMD Radeon HD graphics card should I buy for an overclocked AMD A6-5400k APU?

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Essej Sniggoc

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I'm thinking about purchasing a 900W ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.91 CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS BRONZE psu, 16GB (2x8GB) of Corsair Vengeance 1600 DDR3 ram, and a Corsair Hydro H110 cpu water cooler. I already own a case (good airflow, 4 fans), Thermaltake TR2-600W psu, USB 3.0 PCIe x1 card, LG 24x DVD buber drive, 250GB three GB/s 7200 RPM hdd, MSI FM2-A55M-E33 mobo, AMD A6-5400K Black Edition apu, and 4GB (1 stick) of Corsair XMS3 1333 DDR3 ram. My goal is to overclock my so called "cpu+gpu" to a stable 3.8 GHz, overclock the ram to a stable 1866 frequency, and crossfire with some type Radeon HD series (crossfire certified) gpu.

Drum roll please.......

So basically what I'm asking...... Is the above a good idea? Or what is the best thing to with the owned components and a $500 budget?

Thank you for your time and philanthropy. All answers that are given will be put into deep consideration.

Thanks for reading!!
 
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The 5400k officially supports the HD6570 and unofficially the HD6670. If it was me, I would NOT crossfire with that processor, I would go discrete only.

900w is way overkill for what you are doing. If you use what you have, get a quality 500-600w psu (corsair, seasonic, antec, etc.), an HD 7850-7870 and a good air cooler (212Evo, Noctua, etc.) you should be good to go. You don't really need the water cooling, and 8gb of the Corsair will be plenty.

Mark
 
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Your current PSU will run a HD7850 just fine and buying 1600MHz ram to run at 1866MHz will hardly work so just get HD7850/70 (which performs better than any combination available for your APU). I support as well the suggestion above with $30 air cooler versus the H110.
 
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This is an personal experiment so price is not a matter and buying a discret graphics is something I dont want to do. I know that I could buy better stuff for not that much more of a cost and I will when I want to. Like I said, this is just a personal experiment.

Basically what I am trying to do is see how far I can overclock the apu, ram, and gpu. That is why I want a higher (not highest) wattage psu; however, if 900W is to much than would a 800W or 850W be a better idea? I hear nothing but bashing words about the A6-5400K and crossfiring. I want to believe that with overcloacking and stablitiy, one could get really good performance, using what AMD recommends of course. With that being said I want to use the HD6570. I may want to overclock the A6 to 4.2 or 4.3GHz (I know said 3.8GHz at first but now I have changed my mind. Lol) and the ram to 2100MHz. I will go from 16Gb to 8GB though as mentioned, because that just makes more sense. Idk what to clock the HD6570 at. And can a HD6570 be overclocked? I am also diggin the water cooler mentioned above. I definitely will get that one instead of the H110 :)
 
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Essej Sniggoc

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Your rig will hit its max overclock even with max GPU (HD65/670) you can in Crossfire with a quality 500watt PSU.
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rolli59, if you have to time, could you futher explain what you mean by the above?

Thank you for your advice. It is put into deep consideration.
 
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