Crossfire r7 360?

[TORO_THE_CAT]

I want a GPU,but i cant afford a high end one at the time (960 or even high end 950). So i saw that the motherboard i am buying supports crossfire. I have some questions about the setup though.
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131873&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
1. Will i still be able to fit a WiFi car in one of the mini PCI slots in between the PCIe slots?
2.Will i need a crossfire cable, and will it be able to reach across the motherboard?
3.Will the two 360's run as good as a 960 or high end 950? (I will probably be using a gigabyte 2Gb version.) Thanks for the help!

 

[utroz]

You should be able to fit a WIFI in the lower PCI-E 1x slot. Yes you will need a crossfire cable, your motherboard most likely will come with them. 2 low end cards in crossfire will never run as well as one high end GPU. Some games can only use one gpu, others just don't deal with 2 gpus well and stutter or crash. For a gaming PC an intel system would be a better idea BTW..

 

[littleleo]

Crossfire doesn't use a bridge or cable to connect the cards it uses the PCI-E bus. So you should be able if the cards aren't blocking access to the slot.

Crossfire drivers are not working well for some games I would check to be sure it works for the games you want to play before I commit to go Crossfire.

 

[utroz]

Crossfire doesn't use a bridge or cable to connect the cards it uses the PCI-E bus. So you should be able if the cards aren't blocking access to the slot.

Crossfire drivers are not working for some games I would check to be sure it works for the games you want to play before I commit to go Crossfire.

New cards based on new gpus don't need the crossfire bridges but the 360 does (look it up).

 

[TORO_THE_CAT]

Crossfire doesn't use a bridge or cable to connect the cards it uses the PCI-E bus. So you should be able if the cards aren't blocking access to the slot.

Crossfire drivers are not working for some games I would check to be sure it works for the games you want to play before I commit to go Crossfire.

New cards based on new gpus don't need the crossfire bridges but the 360 does (look it up).

then should i just save for the gtx 950 ftw?

 

[utroz]

Yes you would be better off with a 950..

 

[TORO_THE_CAT]

Ok thanks for all the help. 😀

 

[littleleo]

Interesting when I looked up the R7 360 if got this:

"Double the graphics available for your gaming with AMD CrossFire technology without any strings attached."

So it does have strings attached, lol. Actually I would go the the faster single GPU over doing the doing crossfire or SLI if you have a choice. Nvidia Drivers are mature for SLI, however AMD crossfire can perform better but AMD is all ways behind on getting crossfire drivers up to speed. Go with the better single GPU.

 

[utroz]

Interesting when I looked up the R7 360 if got this:

"Double the graphics available for your gaming with AMD CrossFire technology without any strings attached."

So it does have strings attached, lol. Actually I would go the the faster single GPU over doing the doing crossfire or SLI if you have a choice. Nvidia Drivers are mature for SLI, however AMD crossfire can perform better but AMD is all ways behind on getting crossfire drivers up to speed. Go with the better single GPU.

Yeah it is odd but true, it has the same gpu as the 7790. IF you go to http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202154 you can just barely see the crossfire connector..

 

[littleleo]

Interesting when I looked up the R7 360 if got this:

"Double the graphics available for your gaming with AMD CrossFire technology without any strings attached."

So it does have strings attached, lol. Actually I would go the the faster single GPU over doing the doing crossfire or SLI if you have a choice. Nvidia Drivers are mature for SLI, however AMD crossfire can perform better but AMD is all ways behind on getting crossfire drivers up to speed. Go with the better single GPU.

Yeah it is odd but true, it has the same gpu as the 7790. IF you go to http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202154 you can just barely see the crossfire connector..

Yep your right you can see it plain as day. I wonder why they would do that, I guess trying to keep the price down and figuring no one would want to crossfire it, lol.