Crossfire A8-3870K with GTX-650

ejma

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Hi everyone,

I am planning to upgrade my cpu from A4-3400 to A8-3870K. I have GTX-650 graphics card. My question is that is there a possibility to crossfire A8-3870K with GTX-650?

Guys, please help me. I don't really find good answers from the web.

Thanks.
 
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ATI cards have crossfire. Nvidia cards have SLI :)
And I think it won't bottleneck your GTX 650 SLI. You should be fine, but if you can, get a better processor for sure.

JuX

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ATI cards have crossfire. Nvidia cards have SLI :)
And I think it won't bottleneck your GTX 650 SLI. You should be fine, but if you can, get a better processor for sure.
 
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Nope, sorry. Crossfire is AMD, Nvidia (who make your GTX-650) have a similar teaming solution called SLI, but AMD and Nvidia graphics won't join forces together I'm afraid.
The 3870k is decent for onboard graphics, but it's a long way from a 650, so there'd be no benefit anyway.
 

Krishna Moorthy

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No sorry you cannot 650 is Nvidia and a8 is amd different technologies at play there. There is no point in using apu crossfires anyway even if you had an a 10 it would bottleneck any modern card. The card a A10 would crossfire without bottleneck is a 6990 and that will perform as well as your 650. By all means upgrade to a a8 if you want but you cant crossfire.
hope this helped :)
 

Prithwi2050

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The A8-3870K an AMD CPU with Integrated graphics. Whereas the GTX 650 is an Nvidia card. Crossfire can only happen within AMD products. For example you can Crossfire and A8-3870K with any AMD card like the R7 260X, R9 270X ( the terminology used for this kind of Crossfire is usually referred to as 'DUAL GRAPHICS' ) etc but not with any Nvidia card like the GTX 650 , GTX 760 etc.
 


you know the 6990 is a dual gpu card that is way more powerful than the 650.
 

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wow brain freeze i meant 6670 xD woah ma bad :p