more ram, more gpu power bad cpu. Or less ram, less gpu power good cpu?

Jesse12032 · Dec 12, 2015

Ok so I have two pc's first one is:
Motherboard: Msi - A78M-35
Gpu: r7 370
Cpu: A8 6600k
Ram: 12gb

second:
Motherboard: Asus - M5A97 EVO R2.0
Gpu: Amd hd 7770
Cpu: Athlon II
Ram: 4gb

First off I want to know if you can crossfire the r7 370 with the hd 7770 if so my plan is to combine
the two system to make this:
Motherboard: Asus - M5A97 EVO R2.0
Gpu: Amd hd 7770 and r7 370
Cpu: Athlon II
Ram: 16gb

I am worried that the cpu will bottleneck the GPUs. So do you think it is worth it for more ram and GPU power but a bad cpu or to just stick the my current build?

rayzaldy · Dec 12, 2015

What Athlon do you have?? And you shouldn't crossfire a 370 with a 7770(250x) since it's a different architecture. And yes more ram and gpu is better.

Jesse12032 · Dec 12, 2015

rayzaldy :

it's the Athlon II X2 280

rayzaldy · Dec 17, 2015

That cpu will run but maybe going to have some bottleneck in some cpu heavy games like gta 5 but if you're playing at 720p your athlon and the 370 will run 30~ fps fine. As long you have at least 4gb ram, 8gb if you can.

Thunderballs · Jan 6, 2016

You want 8GB Ram thesedays.

Don't get sucked into buying "gaming ram" and more than 1600MHz speed (unless it is cheaper than 1600MHz). Look at second-hand ram too.

To stay on your game, any PC builder should be selling their older kit and upgrading on a regular basis. There are sweet spots where old tech has a high second hand value but newer tech has fallen a lot thus increasing the value of your $ spend.

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