AMD System Advice (Switching to Vega 64)

bur.kural

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How would Rx Vega 64 Crossfire (no liquid) perform with Ryzen 1700x (stock wraith cooler) and MSI x370 Gaming Plus mobo with 3200mhz DDR4 RAM? Also what kind of power supply would I need for this system?

I have a freesync monitor, a very good one 240hz refresh rate with 1ms reaction. Therefore I don't want to switch to NVDIA. Not that I am being a fan boy but I have been a loyal AMD/Radeon customer for the past 8 years (it's when I started to build desktops for myself) and I don't feel like switching now just because the crypto currency trend pushed the prices up.

Anyways my system got really old for my taste and I am trying to find a way update it :)
My current system:
MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard
FX-8350 4.0ghz (for some reason it always works at 4100-4200 clocks without any overclock)
MSI Rx 480 4GB
2x8GB Hyperx 1833 Mhz DDR3 RAM
700W Power Supply (cheap one sadly)

Keep in mind that I have a spare;
750W quality power supply
MSI x370 Gaming Plus Mobo (found it very cheap last month at $50 and bought it, I don't plan to sell it to get a better one)

Cheers!

 
I'm terribly sorry, but your plan is not going to work.
Also "loyal customer" = fanboy.
Rational approach, is what product gives required performance at lowest price.
regardless of number of cores, ryzen is not suited for high FPS gaming.
Intel CPUs do significantly better in that department.
you will fry any of your PSUs with 2 vega cards. you will need something like a AX1200w PSU to be able to overclock the cards even just a bit. and a 1000w PSU just to run this safely without overclocking.
Not to mention that you will have to cool a system that consumes such amount of power.
And we didn't even get into the SLI/CF issues.
In short, you'd get much higher and smother performance at lower price by getting something like 8700K + 1080Ti. that would also cost you less.
If you customer loyalty is so important, just send AMD a check.