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Would an r9-280 be compatible in the meantime?

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September 8, 2014 3:16:34 PM

Would it be so for the next week or so until I can afford to upgrade my mobo, cpu and ram? I plan to in the future, after the previously mentioned upgrades, add another r9-280 in crossfire and bump up my resolution/monitor count.

But for the next week, would an r9-280 work with my old mobo?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/89666470/MSI-MS-7345-Schematic

I know there'd be a decent bottleneck, but even at that I'll still probably see a small performance increase over my gtx 295, while I wait for payday lol

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September 8, 2014 3:32:15 PM

cannot view that link at work.

If the kingwin supply is the one being used, it has enough power, the gpu should work fine in the pci-e slot... may not run as fast as it will with a new mb/cpu not bottlenecking it, but should last, right?
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September 8, 2014 4:07:56 PM

sammy sung said:
Would it be so for the next week or so until I can afford to upgrade my mobo, cpu and ram? I plan to in the future, after the previously mentioned upgrades, add another r9-280 in crossfire and bump up my resolution/monitor count.

But for the next week, would an r9-280 work with my old mobo?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/89666470/MSI-MS-7345-Schematic

I know there'd be a decent bottleneck, but even at that I'll still probably see a small performance increase over my gtx 295, while I wait for payday lol


yes the processor would be a bit bottleneck but its for 1 week so no problem and upgrading form gtx 295 to r9 280 is not a good update r9 280 is good but not by thatmuch remember gtx 295 has dual gpu.
and i dont know about your PSU but but for a single r9 280 you dont have to change the PSU the gtx 295 has a TDP of 289 watt and the r9 280 TDP is 200 watt .
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September 8, 2014 4:15:39 PM

Still mowing over some ideas. I mean, I plan to get a second 280 in the next few months for crossfire when I upgrade my monitor set-up. Xfire'd 280's would wreck my gtx 295, especially if I didn't stayed at 1080p

Only jumping two tiers by tom's chart, but you gotta also remember that my 295 is only DX10 compatible and working with a lame 896mb vram. Even at the one r9-280 it'd be a nice difference. The single card would only be for a short time.

Trying to find the cheapest after market brand I can on the sellers that are participating in AMD's never settle. Doesn't seem like newegg is participating at the moment, so looking at what superbiiz is doing. Powercolor seems to work best for my money situation at the moment. And it's the brand I've heard the least about. Any experience with it?
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September 8, 2014 4:19:37 PM

yes r9 280 cf will definitely outperform the gtx 295 go with any reliable brand i prefer sapphire as its cheap and is one of the biggest producer of amd cards.
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