Best 500.00 gaming setup please.

monkeyskin · Jul 3, 2013

My motherboard only supports a multiple GPU solution using amd products in crossfirex. Single card setup would give me PCI Express 2.0 lanes 16/8/4 and multiple cards result in 8/8/4 .
Asrock FM2A85X Extreme6
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157339

At my 500.00 price point my options come down to this:

Tri-fire- Sapphire hd 6970 @ 159.00 each
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202035

Crossfire- Powercolor hd 7870 @ 249.00 each
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131484

Maybe i can squeeze this crossfire- Powercolor hd 7950 @ 269.00 each
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131478

or single card allows for nvidia and amd alike:

MSI gtx 770 lightning @ 449.00 each
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127742

ASUS hd 7970 matrix platinum @ 499.00 each
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121671

thanks for your help
ricky

sam_p_lay · Jul 3, 2013

My vote goes to the GTX770. You know about all the issues with Crossfire right?

ASHISH65 · Jul 3, 2013

Get single gpu.get gtx 770 of gigabyte version really has good cooling and performance is very good for 1080p

- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125463

CommentariesAnd More · Jul 3, 2013

You probably will regret your choice if you add anything above a HD 7850 or 650Ti Boost. The 5800K is crap. So here's a good thing for ya ( I recommend selling the GPU ,CPU and Motherboard and extending the budget to 560 bucks -

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3350P 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($177.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($72.24 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 3GB Video Card ($309.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $560.22
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-03 06:47 EDT-0400)

Its worth it , TBH only the motherboard can give the money you need.

If you are not , get this instead -

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3350P 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($177.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($72.24 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card ($255.66 @ Newegg)
Total: $505.89
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-03 06:50 EDT-0400)

This is the best I can give you.

monkeyskin · Jul 3, 2013

Sorry i didnt respond before now. Had to leave for work.

Yes I am familiar with the issues prevalent with crossfirex. Considering the upcoming drivers being released, Lets assume there are no crossfirex issues. I wont be making the purchase until after the drivers release anyway and if they have little effect on crossfirex performance I will most definitely be buying the gtx 770 anyway. The Asus Matrix was more of a wild card to see if anyone would recommend it over the 770. an overwhelming no in this case.

Admittedly it is naive to think all issues with crossfire will be magically erased with a driver update, but we can wish...
Would your answer change if there were no issues with crossfirex?

sam_p_lay · Jul 3, 2013

Honestly, not really! Even it was nVIDIA SLI I'd still always recommend the best single card that's worth buying. SLI doesn't have the Crossfire issues, but with any multi-GPU setup there's always gonna be scaling issues. Many games will yield 90% (or more) framerate gain from the addition of a second card, but many new games (big titles too like Borderlands 2 or Hitman Absolution) gain little to nothing from a second GPU, even nVIDIA (if you hold off playing for a few months, driver updates sometimes improve it, but not always).

And you're right not to get your hopes up too much - it was almost a year ago AMD first announced a driver fix for this. That turned out to be three specific targeted fixes just for certain games. I'll believe this one when I see it!

monkeyskin · Jul 3, 2013

Thanks. After tons of research into this major purchase and numerous posts involving the same subject with newly discovered (on my behalf anyway) ideas, replacing my 560 ti has been somewhat of a pain. It is a tiny bit over 6 months old and has never failed me, but it suffers when i run an extended desktop. The temps jump from 36 deg to 60 deg at idle. I recently started playing RIFT and the fan spins way up even with a single monitor. My plan is to complete a second build and let my son have it so it wont be tossed but id like to have something that wont make me think its gonna die when im gaming.
More than likely the new 8000 series will be released or be close when i am ready to actually buy, but in the case things run favorable to an earlier purchase, the gtx 770 is the answer for me. If the new Radeon line happens to be then obviously ill have to make some other comparison. thanks

sam_p_lay · Jul 3, 2013

Glad to help

Hope you're happy with your purchase when you get it!

CommentariesAnd More · Jul 3, 2013

A 7970 for 310 bucks isn't bad either. Or I would really recommend 2GB 650Ti Boost in SLI. My friend has them and he beats a GTX 670 with ease , also the competes with the GTX 770 in most cases. Is behind by just 3-5 FPS. Not big and considerable enough IMHO. 320>400 right ? So yeah choice is yours. But I would still recommend to change the CPU and motherboard first.

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