Dual R9 270x Devils Edition

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I want to Crossfire my Video Card

I currently have 1 R9 270x Devils Edition

I want to have 2 R9 270x Devils Edition. Is it possible? With this rig?

Can my PSU handle it?

PSU : 600Watts Aurum S Gold FSP
GPU : Radeon R9 270x Devil Edition
CPU : Intel Core i7 4770k
Mother Board : L337 Gaming Gank Drone Z87H3-A3x
Ram : 8 gb Ram Kingston Hyper X 1600
 
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The FSP Aurum S series is a pretty good quality unit, putting two cards in would stress the psu a bit, but since you have a high quality psu, i think it's possible.
Reviewers get 400-500 watt under load with R9 270X in CrossFire.

But even though your system might just be able to run it, i wouldn't really get a CF setup if i where you because of the drawbacks of CF, etc. unprofiled games (will run with 1 card or less in performance with both cards running), even profiled games won't run at 100% scaling, good profiles run over 90% scale in performance, some might run less and only give 140% of a single card. Most titles do get a profile though, they'll probably release one shortly after release most of the time.

Personally i would...
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The FSP Aurum S series is a pretty good quality unit, putting two cards in would stress the psu a bit, but since you have a high quality psu, i think it's possible.
Reviewers get 400-500 watt under load with R9 270X in CrossFire.

But even though your system might just be able to run it, i wouldn't really get a CF setup if i where you because of the drawbacks of CF, etc. unprofiled games (will run with 1 card or less in performance with both cards running), even profiled games won't run at 100% scaling, good profiles run over 90% scale in performance, some might run less and only give 140% of a single card. Most titles do get a profile though, they'll probably release one shortly after release most of the time.

Personally i would recommend selling the 270X to buy the R9 290 instead, single-cards doesn't have these extra issues, and the R9 290 will give you 4GB of VRAM instead of 2GB on the 270X (VRAM doesn't stack in CF), which will sometimes be handy at this performance level.


But i do see the "i want to crossfire my Video Card", and i would say it should be possible with your PSU, but i wouldn't be sure about CPU overclocking because of the extra wattage that takes. :)
 
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