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crossfire 290 with 290x worth it

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November 18, 2013 3:54:44 PM

hey guys. weird question. i bought a plain amd 290. works great with 1080p. i now have a 1440p monitor and it struggles on bf4. i was looking at benchmarks of the 290 for 1440p and the 290x crushes it bad at higher res due to the higher stream processors. so if i were to buy a 290x and crossfire it with my plain 290 would it be able to take full advantage of the extra stream processors or would it dummy the 290x down to a 290 level?

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November 18, 2013 4:08:50 PM

No it would only perform as well as the weaker link. The weaker link being the R 290. Not that either are even remotely weak.
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November 18, 2013 4:15:35 PM

robnof said:
No it would only perform as well as the weaker link. The weaker link being the R 290. Not that either are even remotely weak.


thanks for the quick response. ok. question number 2. now that i know that ill get another 290. now the non reference cards are coming out soon.. can i run two different frequencys? say 1000/1300 on the stock 290 and what ever the non referance cards make. say 1200/1400? would that work? or again gets dummied down to the slower card?
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November 18, 2013 4:25:27 PM

Both cards should run at the same clock settings, and run both at the lower clocked card's settings.
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November 18, 2013 4:40:40 PM

you can use have different clock speeds for different cards but that would create huge frame latency problems
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