Saphire hd6950 dual crossfire good for gaming?

tinokoloski

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hi,
i am going to buy new components for a new pc and i just wanted to check that these will work ok.

this is what i am goeing to buy:
amd black edition fx 8320 3.5 GHz (CPU)
asus sabertooth 990FX R2.0 (motherboard)
corsair graphite series 230T Windowed (case)

this is what i am getting from friends:
antec truepower 750W (powersupply)
crucial 16GB 1600Mhz (RAM)
saphire HD6950 2GB GDDR5 (GPU) (i have two for a crossfire setup)
500GB (HDD)

what i am going to use from my old pc:
lite-on dvdrw (dvd drive)
optiarc dvdrw (dvd drive)
1TB (HDD)

so finally my pc is going to be:
amd black edition fx 8320 3.5 GHz (CPU)
asus sabertooth 990FX R2.0 (motherboard)
corsair graphite series 230T Windowed (case)
antec truepower 750W (powersupply)
crucial 16GB 1600Mhz (RAM)
saphire HD6950 2GB GDDR5 (GPU) (i have two for a crossfire setup)
500GB (HDD)
lite-on dvdrw (dvd drive)
optiarc dvdrw (dvd drive)
1TB (HDD)

could you please awnser these questions?
will the CPU bottleneck the GPU?
and are there any cheaper options with the same quality for the motherboard and the CPU?
and will these components all work together nicely?
i want to play bf4 on ultra can i do that with this pc (my monitor is 1920x1080?)

thanks already :)
 
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Bottleneck. Thrown around here waaaayyyy too much without context. You have a single 1080p monitor, where the workload often shifts to the GPU not the CPU. You are good. Driver support and xfire issues are something else.

If you're expecting to play on ULTRA well into the next year or two, unfortunately I have to say that it probably won't happen. Will you play them at high settings or so with tweaking? Sure. Good Luck.
Intel has the best CPU's for gaming. If you're going to spend a lot of money, build around THIS CPU (and supported Z87 1150 motherboard):

i5-4670K

These are just a few examples, but there are MANY games that show poor performance with the AMD CPU's:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx8350-fx8320-fx6300-and-fx4300-tested/5

The resolution's chosen for the benchmarks are pretty low, but I can find many at 1920x1080 etc that have similar results. For example, in Skyrim the FX-8350 is about 35% behind an i5-4670K at HIGH settings with 1920x1080. In a few NEWER GAMES the FX-8350 is performing as well as the recent i5/i7 Intel CPU's.

Starcraft 2:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-fx-pentium-apu-benchmark,3120-6.html

The FX-8320/50 would sit roughly near the Pentium G30, I just couldn't find my original link. It's about 60% the performance of the i5-4670K for SC2!!
 

tinokoloski

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Thanks for answering dude,
But i disagree with you saying that intel is much better for gaming. Firstly the amd fx 8320 is €133. And the i5 €200 and the i7 €400. So comparing the fx 8320 to the i7 is like comparing a buggati veyron to a regular porche carrera. They are both awesome car but the bugatti is a lot better. But the buggati is much more expensive. So at the and you would buy the porche. Why? Because the buggati is much to expensive and you rather spend the money on something else. Then comparing the i5 to the fx 8320. The benchmarks actually show that the fx 8320 performs better in bf4 than the i5 simply because of its 8 cores (i know that it only has 4 physical cores but still). And since i also do a lot of editting wich likes a lot of cores. I think i am better of buying an fx 8320. And also my budget does not allow an i5.



But getting back to my original question. Do you think that i am able to play next-gen games on this pc?


Ps i chose your answer as the right one by accident.
 

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Bottleneck. Thrown around here waaaayyyy too much without context. You have a single 1080p monitor, where the workload often shifts to the GPU not the CPU. You are good. Driver support and xfire issues are something else.

If you're expecting to play on ULTRA well into the next year or two, unfortunately I have to say that it probably won't happen. Will you play them at high settings or so with tweaking? Sure. Good Luck.
 
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