Is AMD FX6300 able too crossfire?

YoLocalNoKnower · Feb 9, 2016

Ye the title says it pretty much. I got a MSI R9 380 right now but thinking about upgrading to a crossfire 380s. And even though it might be better to just get a 390 I dont really think that's the best for me cause I dont want to go through with the trouble of selling my current 380. Thanks

king3pj · Feb 9, 2016

The CPU will be compatible with Crossfire 380s as long as your motherboard supports it. You may get a CPU bottleneck in some games though.

Edit: I would try for a good CPU overclock to get the most possible performance out of the 6300. I used to have one of those and they can overclock pretty well. I was able to get mine up to 4.2GHz without even increasing the Vcore. If you up the Vcore a bit you should be able to get 4.5GHz.

YoLocalNoKnower · Feb 9, 2016

king3pj :

I got a MSI 970 gaming mother board, do you think it will work?

dylanestrada · Feb 9, 2016

The motherboard should work. I would reconsider switching to a 390, because 2 380s inside of your case will pump out ALOT of heat. Unless your case flow is exceptional, switch to the 390.

king3pj · Feb 9, 2016

http://smile.amazon.com/MSI-970-GAMING-DDR3-Motherboard/dp/B00LUY72F6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455048011&sr=8-1&keywords=msi+gaming+970+motherboard

This one I found on Amazon supports Crossfire. I'm not sure if there is more than one MSI Gaming 970 motherboard though.

YoLocalNoKnower · Feb 9, 2016

king3pj :

Cheers mate tho!

YoLocalNoKnower · Feb 9, 2016

dylanestrada :

Cheers mate! Sorry but I dont want to go through with the struggle of selling. I'm living in kinda of a remote place and if I'll get this it'll be summer same time as I'm moving out.

king3pj · Feb 9, 2016

If you do decide to overclock your 6300 you will want an aftermarket cooler. The Hyper 212 EVO is a cheap option that works pretty well for basic overclocking.

YoLocalNoKnower · Feb 9, 2016

king3pj :

Ye thinking of getting that first before all this.

PatrioticPickle · Feb 9, 2016

Instead of getting a new card, why not get a better CPU, if you wanna stick with your motherboard, get a 8350 or something. Or if you want to really boost performance, get an i5. The r9 380 is a bloody great card and if you pair it with an i5 you will have quite the gaming rig. AMD Cpus can't even come close to intels without overclocking the crap out of them (which means decreasing the life of the chip and having to buy better cooling). I have an 8350, its pretty good for the money, but I swapped out to a i5 3570k that I got quite cheap. Haven't looked back since.

And also, crossfire isn't actually that great, not many games have proper support and optimisation for it, the cards will heat up a LOT so you will need to probably add more fans to your case. And for some people (like me

) it's a bit of a bitch to get set up. My crossfire option wouldn't even appear in my Catalyst/Crimson drivers and I had to keep resitting the cards and rebooting. In most of the games that I played, there was little or no performance increase as the games lack proper support. In a lot of games you will find microstuttering with inconsistent frame rates.

In games that had proper support the boost wouldn't be that great. For example: 60fps with one card, 80-90fps with two. AMD still has a long way to go with Crossfire whereas Nvidias SLI is known to have far fewer problems due better drivers.

But it all comes down to how much you want to spend and the prices in your country

Edit: Just read that you have a MSI 970 board, it's quite the good board, so you would probably be better off getting a 8350 as you can get them for a pretty good price now days. Because if you switch to intel you would have to get a new board and cpu which will be costly. The 8350 is defs better than the 6300 but I'm not sure by how much by.

YoLocalNoKnower · Feb 10, 2016

PatrioticPickle :

Instead of getting a new card, why not get a better CPU, if you wanna stick with your motherboard, get a 8350 or something. Or if you want to really boost performance, get an i5. The r9 380 is a bloody great card and if you pair it with an i5 you will have quite the gaming rig. AMD Cpus can't even come close to intels without overclocking the crap out of them (which means decreasing the life of the chip and having to buy better cooling). I have an 8350, its pretty good for the money, but I swapped out to a i5 3570k that I got quite cheap. Haven't looked back since.

And also, crossfire isn't actually that great, not many games have proper support and optimisation for it, the cards will heat up a LOT so you will need to probably add more fans to your case. And for some people (like me

) it's a bit of a bitch to get set up. My crossfire option wouldn't even appear in my Catalyst/Crimson drivers and I had to keep resitting the cards and rebooting. In most of the games that I played, there was little or no performance increase as the games lack proper support. In a lot of games you will find microstuttering with inconsistent frame rates.

In games that had proper support the boost wouldn't be that great. For example: 60fps with one card, 80-90fps with two. AMD still has a long way to go with Crossfire whereas Nvidias SLI is known to have far fewer problems due better drivers.

But it all comes down to how much you want to spend and the prices in your country

Edit: Just read that you have a MSI 970 board, it's quite the good board, so you would probably be better off getting a 8350 as you can get them for a pretty good price now days. Because if you switch to intel you would have to get a new board and cpu which will be costly. The 8350 is defs better than the 6300 but I'm not sure by how much by.

Ye I'm thinking of upgrading the Fx6300 to the 8350. But I mainly game so is it really worth it? And yea heard about the struggles with more than one card. But it isn't like worth to get two now? I mean the will probably fix the problems?

king3pj · Feb 10, 2016

When overclocked to the same speed as an 8350 the 6300 will have identical performance in most games. The reasoning is that most games have trouble taking advantage of 6 cores, let alone 8.

The only reason the 8350 get's higher gaming benchmark scores in most games is because it comes with a higher stock speed. Like I said before though, I was able to get my FX 6300 to 4.2GHz without even increasing the voltage. This is the same as the the FX 8350's boost speed. You should have no problem reaching that overclock or even higher if you are willing to increase the voltage.

If you want to make a significant improvement in CPU performance you will have to buy a new motherboard and switch to an i5. For now I would just overclock the 6300 to 4.2GHz and see if you are happy with the performance. Don't buy an 8350 unless it's dirt cheap.

YoLocalNoKnower · Feb 10, 2016

king3pj :

But the things I going to upgrade 100% is the case, the PSU (because I want it to look as good as possible) and get a CPU cooler, is it anything more I should upgrade? Like do you see any direct upgrades I could do?

My build
Mobo: MSI 970 Gaming, CPU: AMD FX6300 Black Edition, GPU: R9 380 4GB, RAM: Balistix 4GB 1600, PSU: EVGA 600B non modular, 1,5tb of storage.

king3pj · Feb 10, 2016

Besides a second 380 I think the best upgrade you could make is switching to a Skylake i5. You wouldn't need to buy a new CPU cooler if you go with a non-overclocking model like the i5-6500 since it runs cool on the stock cooler.

If you decided to go with 2 r9 380s you would want something like the MSI Gaming H170 motherboard and a bigger power supply like the EVGA G2 Supernova 850W.

With 1 r9 380 and an i5 your current power supply would be okay.

YoLocalNoKnower · Feb 10, 2016

king3pj :

The thing is only that is such and upgrade that I'll almost be switching the system totally. Cause I'll be needing to upgrade ram, psu, mobo if I'd do that upgrade I don't know if that's the right thing. But you think crossfiring two 380s, oc 6300 with a better psu will be enough? Cheers for helping so much mate!

madmatt30 · Feb 10, 2016

According to what you just listed you only have 4gb system ram??

YoLocalNoKnower · Feb 10, 2016

madmatt30 :

Oh I have 2 sticks.

king3pj · Feb 10, 2016

I think an overclocked 6300 (or 8350) might hold back Crossfire r9 380s in some games. You could try it and probably get much better performance in some games. Instead of buying a second r9 380 now maybe you should just overclock the 6300 first and see if you get any performance improvement.

YoLocalNoKnower · Feb 10, 2016

king3pj :

Ye probably will do that. Can just say that I will probably first get the CPU cooler, then case and PSU after that then I will get the other 380. So it's a while. But I'm also a bit curios if it's a good idea. But would that "future proof" my computer? Like will two 380s last a couple of years?

king3pj · Feb 10, 2016

Two 380s will certainly last longer than the FX 6300. That CPU was released in 2012. It was a great bang for the buck option at the time but Intel has pulled past it by quite a bit at this point.

Nodyjoe · Feb 10, 2016

YoLocalNoKnower :

2 380s would last a couple of years, but if you want to wait like 6ish months you could do an entirely new system with NV and AMD's new cards, or you could grab a 390 at that time for price drops, also as they said an i5 is also a great approach and just keep the 380 cause an i5 can last for many years gaming wise.

YoLocalNoKnower · Feb 10, 2016

Nodyjoe :

The thing is the get the money do something like that, I'd probably needed to sell alot of parts. And I live in a really remote place so it would so hard to do it and I dont really want to do that because I will just have started on a new school and really need to focus and I dont want to sell on ebay cause I don't really feel comfortable with doing something like that.

PatrioticPickle · Feb 10, 2016

If your going to get a new Cpu cooler, psu and new 380; you might as well get an intel i5 instead. Would probably cost the same price.

If you don't feel comfortable selling stuff, what happens when you need to sell the 2 380's in the future and your CPU and mobo. If you were to get an i5 and Mobo you would only need to get rid of 2 things for now, or keep them and when you get a new case chuck them in the old one. And slowy build a secondary build with all your old stuff and sell it or keep it after.

PatrioticPickle · Feb 10, 2016

YoLocalNoKnower :

The best future proof thing to do would be getting a newer CPU. CPU's generally stay more current/relevant for a longer period of time than GPU's and people more often upgrade their GPU's whilst sticking with their CPU's for far longer. For example the 3-4 year old i5 2500k gets overclocked a bit and it keeps up with the still selling brand new 4690k, but you don't see too many 4 year old GPU's playing the newest titles on high settings.

Spooky999 · Feb 10, 2016

I run sli 970 on an 8350 and have no issues. The biggest problem you have is driver support on amd cards its why I sold mine and switch Nvidia. I honestly am going to say heat is a red herring at this point, if with modern case design and the quality of modern fans you cant create decent air flow you should just buy a ready made system and have done with it.

Before you pull the trigger on a second card there is a Jayztwocents video you should check out where he is gaming with an AMD system BF4 I think with crossfire 380xs if memory serves and gets no gain at all from the second card. Driver related issue. When I added my second 970 i noticed a huge jump in fps because Nvida have decent drivers let me see if I can find the video for you.

Is AMD FX6300 able too crossfire?

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