Get 1 additional 270x for Crossfire, or sell it and get a new GTX 970 for about the same price?

[GeekoSuave]

I only need one more R9 and I can crossfire it, which would be $150 cheaper than getting the GTX 970 outright. I just was curious if the price difference would make it worth it.

R9 270X retails for ~$200 right now.
GTX 970 retails for ~$350

I COULD get the 970 and sell my old 270X on eBay, but I don't know if I'd get more than $150 out of it, but getting the money back would be enough to make the price difference negligible.

TL;DR, which would I be better off doing? Crossfiring 2 mid-grade Radeons, or shell out for a new 970 and sell the old Radeon?

Also, just in case it gets asked, my power supply is a Corsair 750m and my processor is an i5 3350p (3.1GHz)

 

[flamefire999]

What motherboard do you have?

 

[redgarl]

Crossfire 270x will smoke a 970 GTX.

 

[GeekoSuave]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157329

 

[GeekoSuave]

Crossfire 270x will smoke a 970 GTX.

I figured it would, but someone earlier said to get the 970 on a different thread, but it was a thread unrelated so I figured I'd ask the graphics experts first.

 

[flamefire999]

Crossfire 270x is better than the 970, but your motherboard only has 1 x16 slot and 1 x4 slot. That means that one of the 270x's will run at 1/4 of the regular performance. With that addition the 970 is better.

Also you would have to deal with the many issues of Crossfire. That's probably why the guy said that the 970 is better than Crossfire 270x.

 

[GeekoSuave]

Crossfire 270x is better than the 970, but your motherboard only has 1 x16 slot and 1 x4 slot. That means that one of the 270x's will run at 1/4 of the regular performance. With that addition the 970 is better.

Also you would have to deal with the many issues of Crossfire. That's probably why the guy said that the 970 is better than Crossfire 270x.

Are you sure? I'd read that both were x16 slots, but one was 3.0 and the other was 2.0, which I've also read that was a negligible difference.

 

[flamefire999]

Crossfire 270x is better than the 970, but your motherboard only has 1 x16 slot and 1 x4 slot. That means that one of the 270x's will run at 1/4 of the regular performance. With that addition the 970 is better.

Also you would have to deal with the many issues of Crossfire. That's probably why the guy said that the 970 is better than Crossfire 270x.

Are you sure? I'd read that both were x16 slots, but one was 3.0 and the other was 2.0, which I've also read that was a negligible difference.

That's true but it's a PCIe 2 x16 running in x4 mode (meaning that it's a full size slot but it's wired to be x4).

 

[GeekoSuave]

Crossfire 270x is better than the 970, but your motherboard only has 1 x16 slot and 1 x4 slot. That means that one of the 270x's will run at 1/4 of the regular performance. With that addition the 970 is better.

Also you would have to deal with the many issues of Crossfire. That's probably why the guy said that the 970 is better than Crossfire 270x.

Are you sure? I'd read that both were x16 slots, but one was 3.0 and the other was 2.0, which I've also read that was a negligible difference.

That's true but it's a PCIe 2 x16 running in x4 mode (meaning that it's a full size slot but it's wired to be x4).

Well that solves that. Thank you.

 

[bishopi5]

970 is still the better option, AMD crossfire is a nightmare, and you literally NEVER see the results benchmarks tell you, where as a single 970 WILL show u those results, or something is wrong

I went from 2x vapor - X 7970's HEAVILY overclock'd pulling insane benchmarks (much faster then any 280x), to a single 970 galax exoc, and it was an UPGRADE to say the least, haven't even bothered overclocking yet