Cross fire questions

[Reapertyrion]

Hey folks!

I bought the MSI 970A-G43 Motherboard, because my previous mobo had only 1 PCE-e for a graphics card. I'm looking to crossfire my build. I'm using an MSI R9 270 2gb card at the moment.
What i'm wondering, is can I Xfire the MSI R9 270 with a MSI R7 370 4gb?

If not, what would you reccomend for an upgrade? 😀

Thanks in advance.

 

[Gingerbread]

You can xfire them but it's better to sell it and buy a higher end GPU. Crossfiring two lower-end GPUs is never recommended (due to limited vram and many games being unable to fully utilize crossfire).

 

[Wolfshadw]

Can't seem to find an updated Crossfire Compatibility chart, but I don't think you can Crossfire an R9 with an R7.

-Wolf sends

 

[Gingerbread]

Yeah, bless AMD with their outdated charts, but I have seen people do it. Point is, it ain't worth it.

 

[Reapertyrion]

Thanks for the advice guys.
In that case, the options would be, xfiring 2 R7 370's or 2 R9 270x's. Roughly the same price, thoughts?

 

[Gingerbread]

If you are gonna spend cash on new cards, especially the ones you mentioned, you will get GTX 970 for the same price, maybe less and it will work way better with way less headaches and problems than the crossfire.

 

[Reapertyrion]

Well, the GTX 970 would be cheaper overall. But will it really out perform xfired 370's? The 4gb's.

Gaming on a 1440p monitor.

 

[Gingerbread]

In most cases it will. 370s are not that great, but they have a tremendous power consumption not to mention you should always prefer a single more powerful chip than xfire/sli lower chips.

 

[Reapertyrion]

Hmmm, I'll have to do some more looking around. If xfiring is'nt going to be worth the money, then i may as well look at a nicer card.
I do a lot of game recording and rendering. So a card that makes my games look pretty is a must. I mainly play SWTOR and Fallout 4 since it released.

Is the 970 100% going to run some max settings? If not, i'll look at something else. Possible a 980, but i dont want to spend that much.

 

[Reapertyrion]

Now I don't know what to do with the Motherboard.... I already bought it. Should of done some more digging before I did that! *Facepalm*

Suppose i can keep it for future upgrades, So it's not all bad. I'm looking at a 970 now, and some gameplay using the card.
Looks good. I'll consider it for now. I want to do some more looking around before i spend. Thanks for the help. I'll give you best answer.

 

[Gingerbread]

Well you can keep the mobo and if at some point in the future you decide to go SLI or encounter a really cheap 970 you can always go sli with it.

 

[Vic 40]

I bought the MSI 970A-G43 Motherboard .

This one doesn't do sli,just crossfire.

You could get an extra r9 270 (used for instance) and see how it performs if the psu is up to it.It's cheaper than the gtx 970,in a lot of reviews does it perform as good as one r9 290 in most games.