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Current system specs:
AMD FX-8120
Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0
2 x MSI LIghtning 6970 crossfire
8 gigs DDR3
PNY 256gig ssd
WD 500gig hdd
Thermaltake 850 psu
Windows 7 Ultimate 64
Want to know if i will see any significant boost in fps by switching to a AMD R9-280x single card. Right now my main game is Battlefield 4 and i can hold a constant 60 fps on 1920x1080 all medium settings. Thought this seemed low for the crossfire set up but not sure. Was looking at going up to 280 but will it help.
AMD FX-8120
Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0
2 x MSI LIghtning 6970 crossfire
8 gigs DDR3
PNY 256gig ssd
WD 500gig hdd
Thermaltake 850 psu
Windows 7 Ultimate 64
Want to know if i will see any significant boost in fps by switching to a AMD R9-280x single card. Right now my main game is Battlefield 4 and i can hold a constant 60 fps on 1920x1080 all medium settings. Thought this seemed low for the crossfire set up but not sure. Was looking at going up to 280 but will it help.
coovargo
October 10, 2014 1:30:12 PM
CSJunkie said:
Should i be seeing better performance from my current set up than i am now? Thought 6970 crossfire would do better than it is.Have you manually enabled Crossfire?
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/289272-33-enable-cros...
Realistically dual 6970s aren't going to yield a whole lot performance. A single 280X will get maybe about 20% more framerate out of battlefield 4, but you'll have room to upgrade.
That's about all I can think of. If you get two Nvidia carts you have to manually enable SLI. It doesn't work on its own. I was running dual 680s for a couple days before I figured it out.
Other than that a CPU bottleneck may be affecting you. Check that chart and you might get some more insight.
CSJunkie
October 10, 2014 1:27:23 PM
littleleo
October 10, 2014 1:19:51 PM
coovargo
October 10, 2014 1:14:32 PM
Given your budget I would recommend going a little bit higher and getting a GTX 970 for around 80 more. You will get better performance and you can still SLI and have 190% performance over a single card setup. That and you would be fully prepared for any next gen titles available.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/05/19/am...
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_9...
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-280X-vs-Radeon-HD-697...
There you have it, everything you should need to make an educated buying decision.
Upgrading your CPU wont help too much. For gaming these days single core performance is all that matters. Realistically you aren't going to notice a change switching to another AMD CPU unless you bump the clock speed way up. I have an 8350 at 4.7GHZ & H110 cooler and the only way I could ever get an improvement is switching to a i7 4670k stock. 3.1GHZ @ 8120 is realistically good enough for gaming with something like BF4. In the future I would see about upgrading your CPU, and when you do, only focus on single-threaded overall performance. The number of cores is only going to help in multithreaded games, which most currently are not. In the future it will be important but by that time, even your CPU should remain current enough to hit 60 FPS. If you really want to go higher there ARE options but they wont help too much. At the bottom of this website are how a different CPU will affect framerates in BF4. Your current CPU will put you at 58-60FPS Min and 75-80 FPS AVG, so you might have a bottleneck on that particular game even with the best GPU.
http://www.bf4blog.com/battlefield-4-retail-gpu-cpu-ben...
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/05/19/am...
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_9...
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-280X-vs-Radeon-HD-697...
There you have it, everything you should need to make an educated buying decision.
Upgrading your CPU wont help too much. For gaming these days single core performance is all that matters. Realistically you aren't going to notice a change switching to another AMD CPU unless you bump the clock speed way up. I have an 8350 at 4.7GHZ & H110 cooler and the only way I could ever get an improvement is switching to a i7 4670k stock. 3.1GHZ @ 8120 is realistically good enough for gaming with something like BF4. In the future I would see about upgrading your CPU, and when you do, only focus on single-threaded overall performance. The number of cores is only going to help in multithreaded games, which most currently are not. In the future it will be important but by that time, even your CPU should remain current enough to hit 60 FPS. If you really want to go higher there ARE options but they wont help too much. At the bottom of this website are how a different CPU will affect framerates in BF4. Your current CPU will put you at 58-60FPS Min and 75-80 FPS AVG, so you might have a bottleneck on that particular game even with the best GPU.
http://www.bf4blog.com/battlefield-4-retail-gpu-cpu-ben...
okcnaline
October 10, 2014 1:09:08 PM
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