budget MOBO for crossfire rx 470s

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Hi! So me being me, i already had a rx 470, but wanted to crossfire another one. So without research, I bought another rx 470 (Asus Strix 470 4 gb) and a crossfire bridge thing. Not until after actually buying the parts, I realized I have a mobo with only 1 PCIe x16. Well crap. My current mobo is a MSI H110M Gaming Micro atx. I have an ATX case, so I would actually prefer a ATX mobo. (I had a m-atx because I was planning to have a micro-atx case, but Fry's had no m-atx case at the time, so I went yolo, without upgrading the MOBO. MOBO must support skylake, and ddr4.

Anyway, I have a budget of $100.


Current Specs:
CPU: Intel I5-6500
PSU:500w Thermal Take
GPU: RX 470
MOBO: MSI H110M M-ATX
RAM: 8gb DDR4
 
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Also, you don't use a bridge for crossfiring modern AMD GPUs.
Also, you didn't post your exact PSU model, but if it's the Thermaltake Purepower 500 I would not recommend trying to run two 470s on it. Don't think it even has two power connectors anyway. I don't think any budget ~500W PSU would be great for this
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Also, you don't use a bridge for crossfiring modern AMD GPUs.
Also, you didn't post your exact PSU model, but if it's the Thermaltake Purepower 500 I would not recommend trying to run two 470s on it. Don't think it even has two power connectors anyway. I don't think any budget ~500W PSU would be great for this
 
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I would return the card. It seems like recently games haven't had as much support for SLI or CrossFire, so you're more likely to run into problems with CrossFired GPUs than just 1 by itself. Plus, that would be a lot of time to swap out motherboards & reinstall your Windows from scratch, just for the chance that CrossFire might work with the games.
 
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Yes I can return it. I guess that's what I'm going to do. Maybe get a 1070.
 
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