i7 and CrossFire 7970's

tomthecamel2093

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I am upgrading my PC from an FX-8150 and a 990FXA-UD7 to an i7-4770K and a GA-Z87X-OC. I currently have 2 7970's in CrossFire and I was wondering what kind of performance boost I can expect with the new CPU. The cards have some OC.

System Specs:

CPU - FX-8150
MB - GA-990FXA-UD7
RAM - 16GB G.Skill DDR3 @ 1600MHz
GPU - 2 x PowerColor HD7970
OS - Windows 8
GPU Driver Version - 13.10

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tomthecamel2093

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I'm running 13.10 at the moment. It apparently has all the improvements of 13.8 with extra improvements for Rome 2, which was the game I am hoping to get a good gain on.
 

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Sorry read that as 13.1

I dont use AMD graphics cards, so not sure about what is the latest version, just remembered reading that article. :)
 
So I didn't really answer your question before, but I read an article a while back that tested the 8350 vs 3770 with crossfire/sli and the fx did just awful. You should expect a very large fps gain in most games, unless your gpus were both maxed out. I doubt that's very often the case with your current setup though.
 

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You should get a great boost on Rome 2!

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Your CPU will be somewhere near the 2600k @ 4.8
 

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Yeah I had the AfterBurner OSD on whilst in Rome 2 and the GPU's were using around 25-30%. Never really noticed any performance issues before because the games were only utilising 1 card I suppose.
 

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Not in Rome 2. AMD cpus do not do well in that game, even with overclocks.
 

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Yeah I know I've already tried an OC on the CPU and it made next to no difference in Rome 2. The cards the,selves are already overclocked but the CPU is what's holding them back.

Thanks for the advice guys!
 

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Sorry the post was a little late. If anything you could just get an 8350, whose performance is 2-3 fps below the i7 2600k. getting a new mb with an i7 3770k is going to set you back >$400 and the time it will take assembling a new PC and all other associated tasks. you can just drop in an 8350 for $200 saving you time & money and only sacrificing a few fps.