7870 crossfire and Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5

[Mishania]

I have

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128415

Does anybody know if I can put 2 7870 in crossfire in it?

Thank you.

 

[refillable]

It should support it. As long as your other components can keep up with the configuration. CPU for example.

 

[ilysaml]

Yes it will support them without any problem, but you'll get bottlenecked by the CPU. All Phenoms and FXs don't catch up with CF/SLI Scaling.

 

[Mishania]

Yes it will support them without any problem, but you'll get bottlenecked by the CPU. All Phenoms and FXs don't catch up with CF/SLI Scaling.

Thank you. I have already OCed my 965BE. I think it should be close enough. Later I will switch to 2500k or so

 

[ilysaml]

Good for you then.

 

[Mishania]

Best answer selected by Mishania.

 

[diec4st]

As much as I love AMD, ilysaml is right. Don't get the second 7870 until you get a 2500k because you'll see a huge bottleneck. Even with a good overclock the architecture has some trouble keeping up with both GPU's and you'll more often than not see your GPU's not fully loaded when gaming.

 

[JED29]

would either a Asus P8Z68-V LXG or a Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 be capable too?

 

[refillable]

They should be a good motherboard.