A10 7850 crossfire compatibility

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Joshua Chong

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Hi heres my CPU specs :

Processor = AMD A10 7850k -

Motherboard = Gigabyte F2A78M-HD2 -

Ram = Kingston 8gb 1666mhz -

SSD = Kingston 60gb V300 -

PSU = Cooler Master G550M -

Casing = Cooler Master USP 100 -

Wifi card =TP-Link WDN4800 -

Screen = Samsung SD240D300BL -

Bluetooth = USB Dongle 4.0 -

CPU Fan = Cooler Master TCP 812 - (One of the best CPU Fan i used so far 1 Celcius on this bad boy on idle !!)

ok for my question , i just curious is my processor compatible with all the R7-R9 series for crossfire and lets just say i am going all out for R9- 290 would my PSU be suffice ? i would also might be adding 1tb sata in near future
 
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No it's not, only up to a R7-250. Also the A10-7850k is horrible for gaming. Buy a Pentium G3220 with a GT 740. The APU would only play Bf4 at med settings at 720p while the GT 740 would be able to play on high at 1080p with 30+ fps
 
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ah ic , but i was too late already , i had bought all the component and using it right now , so any advice to improve my game play with a tight budget ? right now the solution i have is buying another 8gm 1600ghz RAM , because i heard that APU uses alot of ram , and i am hoping that 16gb would be suffice or i would just wait for awhile and get myself a R9 270 , please advice
 
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Your memory is fine. The on-die GPU of the A10-7850 is just not a good 1080p gfx solution. Save up for a discrete card and your problems will be over. With that PSU, you should be able to go up to a R9-270X/280 or GTX 760.
 
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i actually was looking at GTX 970 or 980 , but now since i found out that A10-7850K can Dual Graphics with R7 series , i am now looking at R7 265 or maybe R7 260
 
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Yes, since the recent release of the 145W GTX 970, that would be the preferred choice now. AMD is going to have a hard time competing with these new low wattage Maxwell equipped Nvidia cards.

Btw, as I said above... you can't use a discrete card in dual graphics mode that doesn't have the exact same GPU that your APU contains. So that leaves out the R7-265 and 260. The only one that matches up is the R7-250.
 
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ah ic , so it means that in future they will not be updating the bios or whatever it is to make the Kaveri Compatible with higher R7 series or maybe even R9 ? because i dont want to regret buying the R7 250 if theres a potential that they will make it compatible with higher GPU in near future. Please Advice @.@
 
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Crossfire (or dual graphics) can't be made compatible with another GPU if it doesn't share the exact same specs. So you won't have to worry about that.
However, AMD may come up with a newer APU someday that has a higher performance GPU that will be compatible with faster cards in DG mode. But your A10-7850 won't change.
 
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