HIS power color 7850 2gb for gaming in 2015?

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mmahmoud

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HIS power color 7850 2Gb GPU good for budget gaming in 2015? While cross firing 2 GPUs (same model)
I got a friend of mine offering to sell his 2 GPUs for low price ( I think both for under 100$) it's because he just got r9 290x I think.
I was thinking of building my first gaming pc, knowing that I don't always play the latest AAA games! I just wanna play bf4,smite, Blacklight, Skyrim, bf3, and some other games that isn't demanding such high end graphic card!
And I'll be running FX 8350 CPU,8-16gb of ram, and gonna crossfire both cards to maybe get better preformece !
 
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Yeah, if you can get them both for $100 ( as in $50 each ), that's a good deal. The 7850 is the exact same as the R7 265 ( though the 265 is clocked higher ) and that card is worth $100 on its own. Just realize that the 7850/265 doesn't have the brute force to really take advantage of CFX so you may not get a huge boost out of the second card.

Just be sure you've got a PSU that can handle both cards. You'll need one with two 6-pin PCIe cable and about 300W of headroom over what it's handling right now ( that's to run both of them ).
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Buying both for $100? That's a pretty good deal if they're in good condition. Buying both for $200? No, I wouldn't do that. The 7850 is still a decent card for moderate gaming, but for $200 you can get a much better solution. A single powerful card is usually preferable to two weaker cards paired together.
 
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mmahmoud

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Well that's what I'm trying to make him sell it for me which is 100$
And I had the same idea that I shouldn't buy them for no more than 100$
Otherwise I might just get one if the r9 or a GTX 960,970
 
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Yeah, if you can get them both for $100 ( as in $50 each ), that's a good deal. The 7850 is the exact same as the R7 265 ( though the 265 is clocked higher ) and that card is worth $100 on its own. Just realize that the 7850/265 doesn't have the brute force to really take advantage of CFX so you may not get a huge boost out of the second card.

Just be sure you've got a PSU that can handle both cards. You'll need one with two 6-pin PCIe cable and about 300W of headroom over what it's handling right now ( that's to run both of them ).
 
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