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June 23, 2014 11:51:05 AM

Hi, I am thinking of upgrading my PC, I have a Intel i5 2320 3ghz and is getting quite slow. I am thinking of getting.

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GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-GAMING 3 Intel Z97
Corsair Obsidian 750D.

I was wondering if my motherboard will be good and ok for Crossfire.

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June 23, 2014 11:53:21 AM

AJMitchell said:
Hi, I am thinking of upgrading my PC, I have a Intel i5 2320 3ghz and is getting quite slow. I am thinking of getting.

4770k
GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-GAMING 3 Intel Z97
Corsair Obsidian 750D.

I was wondering if my motherboard will be good and ok for Crossfire.


Yup that looks good. What's you GPU? as you might want to upgrade that too.

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June 23, 2014 11:59:14 AM

PSU as well!
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June 23, 2014 12:00:45 PM

The_Freeman said:
AJMitchell said:
Hi, I am thinking of upgrading my PC, I have a Intel i5 2320 3ghz and is getting quite slow. I am thinking of getting.

4770k
GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-GAMING 3 Intel Z97
Corsair Obsidian 750D.

I was wondering if my motherboard will be good and ok for Crossfire.


Yup that looks good. What's you GPU? as you might want to upgrade that too.



Embra said:
PSU as well!


I have a r9 290 Tri X by sapphire.
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June 23, 2014 12:01:11 PM

Embra said:
PSU as well!


I have a Seasonic 650w Haswell proven PSU.
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June 23, 2014 12:17:19 PM

AJMitchell said:
Embra said:
PSU as well!


I have a Seasonic 650w Haswell proven PSU.


Okay then your good to go.
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June 23, 2014 12:24:24 PM

the motherboard you have chosen will support crossfire. Everything you have picked out will work well together...if you are looking to crossfire two r9 290's then you are going need a more beefy psu 650 wont cut it. 750 at a minimum...I would be more comfortable at 850watts. Something you should consider if your system is feeling "slow" would be a ssd....you can get a samsung 120gb or 240gb for relativley cheap.
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June 23, 2014 12:27:46 PM

drums101 said:
the motherboard you have chosen will support crossfire. Everything you have picked out will work well together...if you are looking to crossfire two r9 290's then you are going need a more beefy psu 650 wont cut it. 750 at a minimum...I would be more comfortable at 850watts. Something you should consider if your system is feeling "slow" would be a ssd....you can get a samsung 120gb or 240gb for relativley cheap.


I have a 250gb SSD booting. I am thinking of going for these and then after that getting more ram and a h80i cooler for my CPU. Then I was thinking of getting a 1000watt PSU with my new r9 290. After that I was thinking of getting a water cooling unit but I am not looking that far,
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June 23, 2014 1:47:15 PM

That sounds like a good plan to me....I dont have any experience with the corsair all in one water coolers but I am using a thermaltake water 2.0 240mm Rad all in one cooler and it has been performing awesome. (Cooling a first gen i7 950 @4ghz quite well) So I would reccomend the thermaltake water 3.0s to anyone. (even better performance rad has higher fin density and a higher flow rate pump)
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