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Wrench117

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Hello everybody, bought a motherboard that supports AMD Crossfire. Little did I know that it won’t run 2 Geforce GTX 660 Ti’s. I only have one 660 Ti & was going to buy another this up coming week and obviously run two. But I can’t now because of my motherboard.

Here are my system spec’s
Ram- 8GB
Processor- AMD A10-6800K APU 4.10 GHz
Power Supply- 700W
Hardrive- 1TB + 180GB SSD
CPU Cooler- V6 GT
Case- CM Storm Enforcer
MotherBoard- Gigabyte FM2 A85X
Video Card- Geforce GTX 660 Ti 2GB

Links to each part

Ram- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233142

Processor- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113331

Power Supply- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153167

SSD- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167115

CPU Cooler- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103089

Case- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119240

MotherBoard- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128566

Video Card- http://www.amazon.com/Galaxy-GeForce-Express-Graphics-66NNH7DV6WXZ/dp/B008PFE4CW

Questions I have-
1. Should I sell my video card and buy two AMD cards. If yes, what card should I buy that will give me 80-120 FPS in games like World of Warcraft or BF4
2. Sell motherboard, CPU, buy intel parts?
3. Should I upgrade to a bigger power supply & if so, would a 900W be suffcient.
 
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clutchc
The FPS limitation recording in Fraps might be a software limitation of the pgm. I don't use it, but I have heard others talk about it.

In the pics above it appears you are using Molex to PCIe 6 pin adapters for your gfx card. Why aren't you using the PCIe 6/8 pin cables that came with the PSU?

If you do a clean install of Win7 on the SSD, be sure to check out this guide to get the best speed from the drive and avoid writing it to an early death: http://www.computing.net/howtos/show/solid-state-drive-ssd-tweaks-for-windows-7/552.html
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Well I do a lot of recording In world of Warcraft (Fraps) &, want to hit 60 FPS. When normally recording, I average between 29-34 frames. When not recording I average at 50-59, not even 60. I guess I could buy a bigger card & not do crossfire but even so should I pick up a better power supply?
 
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With your card you should be able to get a steady 60 fps on WOW even when recording. Make sure that in fraps you set it to record at 60 frames instead of 30. That might be the issue.
 
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And under 60 fps is detrimental to smooth game play how?
 
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Well ok check this out. This may or may not be the reason to why I'm not getting, 60 FPS wile recording & poor performance from what I should be getting. I have a 180GB SSD BUT, I have windows 8.1, BF4, World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2, HearthStone, Sony Vegas Pro 12 which leaves me at 50GB left.

I don't have a 1TB hardrive yet but, will be getting one on Wednesday when I get paid. I have 3 other hardrives that are old & taken from different computers around the house and plugged them in internally and use them as back up storage, music, videos, pictures, clips. I don't think there speed is even 7200rpm & there only 280, 300, 220 GB's of space in each.

So maybe buying a nice 7200rpm 1TB hardrive will do the trick with a bigger power supply. Then install the operating system on the 180 GB SSD, use the 1TB hd for raid 0 or something and buy a 60GB SSD and use it to record. That sound good?
 
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The FPS limitation recording in Fraps might be a software limitation of the pgm. I don't use it, but I have heard others talk about it.

In the pics above it appears you are using Molex to PCIe 6 pin adapters for your gfx card. Why aren't you using the PCIe 6/8 pin cables that came with the PSU?

If you do a clean install of Win7 on the SSD, be sure to check out this guide to get the best speed from the drive and avoid writing it to an early death: http://www.computing.net/howtos/show/solid-state-drive-ssd-tweaks-for-windows-7/552.html
 
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