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June 23, 2013 3:27:01 PM

My system is built on an ASUS MA599fx pro R2.0.the CPU is fx8350 the gpu's are MSI 7870 in xfire. They are pcie 3.0 in a 2.0 slot on that board. My question is would I benefit from dumping the board and CPU and go with an Intel high end ivy bridge or new haswell cpu. Or would maybe trying the Asus sabertooth gen 3. Which has PCI 3.0 on board. I play mostly MMO games like Rift and Defiance. I like to play FPS games like Battlefield 3 and the like. I play at 1080. I like to keep the graphics up and use light anti aliasing 2x or 4x at most. not I put about $2000 or so, into this build with all that is on it eye candy wise and water cooling.

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June 23, 2013 3:30:31 PM

Crossfire is broken currently and there is no benefit from going pcie 2.0 to pcie3.0 only 2% performance gain. The only benefit you'll see in upgrading to a good ivy bridge or haswell based cpu is higher frame rates in cpu intensive games like rts and mmos
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June 23, 2013 3:31:21 PM

It absolutely is not worth it. In fact, you likely would not see much of a performance difference, as something like the i5 is roughly comparable to the fx8350. As for the pcie interface, even in crossfire, the difference between pcie 2.0 and 3.0 would be very minimal.
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June 23, 2013 4:21:13 PM

8350 is fine, shouldn't see any bottle neck with your cards.
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