FX-6300 Bottleneck R9 270's in Crossfire?

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I have an FX-6300, OC'd to 4.1GHz, and am wondering if It will bottleneck a dual R9 270 setup. I currently have 1 Asus R9 270, and am looking to add another.
 
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I have to agree with Shadyhampster, you will see only minor improvement over 1 card with an X4 slot. Some games may even result in lower frame rates. Stay away from dual cards with the X4 slot. I speak from experience. I had dual HD 6850 in CF @ X16, X4. A bad experience.
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I hate to be "that guy" but adding another R9 270 will get you only 30% improvement at most, you'll also have a hotter first card and frankly a lot of games are horribly unoptimized for crossfire so you'll end up switching off crossfire most of the time. I recommend selling off your R9 270 and get a 280x with the money you'll have then
 
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I have to agree with Shadyhampster, you will see only minor improvement over 1 card with an X4 slot. Some games may even result in lower frame rates. Stay away from dual cards with the X4 slot. I speak from experience. I had dual HD 6850 in CF @ X16, X4. A bad experience.
 
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I literally just bought the R9 270 on Friday, it has a 15 day direct in-store return/exchange policy. So My best solution would be to return this and exchange it for an R9 280 ? and forget about Crossfire, correct :) ?

Or Another route could be to replace my motherboard, and still go with 2 270's?

 
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Thanks so much for the input guys, ill be calling in the store tomorrow, to ask about the exchange.
 
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