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 .