Will an FX 8320 bottleneck xfire r9 290s?

danco5074 · Sep 2, 2014

I'm trying to avoid getting a new MOBO and CPU (Current ones listed Below) I know there will be some bottleneck (which I'm fine with). I don't really care about scoring high benchmarks, I just want to be able to play games @ 1440p at around 90FPS on highest settings.

My 8320 is OC'd to 4.2GHz Using ASUS M5A99x EVO 2.0. Currently have one r9 290 WF in it which nets me around of 50-60 FPS on highest settings @1440p.

sincreator · Sep 2, 2014

With the higher resolution(1440p) you should be fine since most of the load will be on the GPU's.

Free2play_noobs · Sep 2, 2014

R9 280/R9 280X or GTX 760 & 770 are the highest end card that you can get without bottlenecking your CPU.

logainofhades · Sep 2, 2014

sincreator :

I would have to agree with this one.

BigBadBeef · Sep 2, 2014

If you won't replace mobo then you can try OC, though 8320 runs hot on its own. Maybe watercooling?

Wisecracker · Sep 2, 2014

Buy that second R9 290.

You'll see great scaling in some games. Others, not so much. Setting individual game Crossfire profiles will help.

legend001523 · Sep 2, 2014

there shouldn't be much bottleneck unless you go 3 r9 290

danco5074 · Sep 2, 2014

Free2play_noobs :

That's not right. I'm benching on par and even above some i-5s (on unigine and futuremark) currently with a r9 290 and OC'd 8320. For some games, sure. But They would need to be single core dependent or very old.

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