CPU and MoBo for Crossfire Sapphire RX 480 Nitro OC. AMD or Intel?

[AndrzejB]

Hi,
I am looking for recommendations of CPU and Motherboard to get the most out of the pair of Sapphire RX 480 Nitro OC. Still not sure Intel or AMD?

 

[Ecky]

Short answer: Intel, without question. AMD's CPUs are horribly out of date and do not belong in a gaming PC in 2016.

 

[AndrzejB]

Short answer: Intel, without question. AMD's CPUs are horribly out of date and do not belong in a gaming PC in 2016.

Thank you. Any particular models to consider, or just go for i7-6700K as no brainer?

 

[Ecky]

The 6700K is the fastest socket 1151 CPU, but if you don't intend to overclock, you might consider the 6700 instead to save some cash.

 

[AndrzejB]

The 6700K is the fastest socket 1151 CPU, but if you don't intend to overclock, you might consider the 6700 instead to save some cash.

Thank you

 

[Samer1970]

MSI Gamin X RX480 is better than nitro ... the nitro is more noisy . just to let you know.

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/Radeon-RX-480-GAMING-X-8G.html#hero-overview

for mobo , I like Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 5

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5498#ov

 

[ColdFever]

Hey. Did you do your crossfire yet ? Im currently looking for 480 crossfire too. Would you share how is it going so far ? Temps ? Noise ? Do you recommend it, etc.

 

[Ecky]

I recommend against Crossfire. Many games don't support it, and in the future, fewer and fewer will, so often the second card will sit idle and unused. Even when it does work, usually you can get a single card (GTX 1070 in this case) for around twice as much that's twice as fast, and uses only as much power as a single RX 480.

 

[Nocliptoni75]

Hey. Did you do your crossfire yet ? Im currently looking for 480 crossfire too. Would you share how is it going so far ? Temps ? Noise ? Do you recommend it, etc.

I can recommend Crossfire having been running two Sapphire RX 480 Nitro+ cards for few weeks now .But if AMD is not absolute must get a GTX1070 or wait for Vega/Volta .What comes to CF support on games it is very good and AMD has been working hard to improve it (look at new Deus Ex and Battlefield 1 already have CF profiles and Battlefield one is only in Beta testing heh) .Temps are really down to what you prefer, you can make a custom fan profile to suit you (i keep mine around 75C and these 2 cards are quieter than my previous R9 290 PCS+ ,no coil whine either in my case).So far my experience has been pretty much trouble free and i have been playing following games on 1440p (quite extensively) Fallout 4 (heavily modded everything maxed out with ENB ),Skyrim (heavily modded with ENB ) , Rise of the Tomb Raider (Everything maxed out except Tesselation and SMAA off as i do not see any improvement on graphics ,benchmark gives me 102FPS AVG) ,Black Ops 3 (Everything maxed out) ,Battlefield 4 (maxed out) ,GTA V (maxed out except SMAA x4 ) . I know the games i play are not the latest but most of them still require a lot of grunt from a GPU .

 

[dzdncnfsd73]

Hi,
I am looking for recommendations of CPU and Motherboard to get the most out of the pair of Sapphire RX 480 Nitro OC. Still not sure Intel or AMD?

I would wait for amd FX Zen cpu, it's going to blow everything out of the water, asides amd works best with amd. From what I hear they being released in pc builds soon.

 

[Ecky]

AMD's video cards are actually worse to pair with their CPUs right now, because their DX 11 drivers are more CPU-heavy and AMD CPUs are generally weaker than Intel ones. On a low-end chip like an FX, with an AMD and nVidia card that are otherwise equally fast on a more powerful CPU, the NV card will perform better.

It's a bit early to say that Zen will blow everything out of the water. Consider that AMD is building a CPU with less than 1/10 the design budget that Intel has for theirs.

 

[dubzee]

Hi,
I am looking for recommendations of CPU and Motherboard to get the most out of the pair of Sapphire RX 480 Nitro OC. Still not sure Intel or AMD?

dude im running the asus rog maximus viii formula with a 6700k cpu and 32 of mem the clocks and benchmarks from these cards in crossfire are serious

 

[dubzee]

also dx 12 benchmarks are even better also async compute will play a huge role in 2017

 

[suck3rs]

Short answer: Intel, without question. AMD's CPUs are horribly out of date and do not belong in a gaming PC in 2016.

The 6700K is the fastest socket 1151 CPU, but if you don't intend to overclock, you might consider the 6700 instead to save some cash.

Stop talking about things you really don't know anything about. An FX 9590 will perform slightly better than your i5 on current gen games.

 

[tito_1]

Hey. Did you do your crossfire yet ? Im currently looking for 480 crossfire too. Would you share how is it going so far ? Temps ? Noise ? Do you recommend it, etc.

I did it crossfire whith Sapphire nitro rx 480 8gb whith AMD FX 8370 and 4k and working perfect