How do I enable Crossfire for my AMD Richland A8-6600k with built in GPU AMD Radeon HD 8570D?

[RatchetGamer]

Hello Everyone,

First of all I am a noob at building PC's and stuff that is why please excuse my ignorance and my innocence.

I just bought an AMD Richland A8-6600k and it has an AMD radeon HD 8570D integrated graphics that came with it. I can already play the games I want but in low graphics.
I would like to ask what graphics card is compatible with my cpu for crossfire.
Also I would like to ask how to enable crossfire.

Thank you very much.

 

[wss_003]

you will not want to run crossfire with you apu as it will make the card you buy run at the same speed your apu does and that will significantly lower your performance of the discreet card, your apu uses ddr3 memory and your card will likely use ddr5 which is way faster so if you post your build specs i can recommend a card for you and you will be much better off useing it and disabling your integrated graphics

 

[RatchetGamer]

you will not want to run crossfire with you apu as it will make the card you buy run at the same speed your apu does and that will significantly lower your performance of the discreet card, your apu uses ddr3 memory and your card will likely use ddr5 which is way faster so if you post your build specs i can recommend a card for you and you will be much better off useing it and disabling your integrated graphics

Thank you for the reply,

I always thought that enabling crossfire would boost performance? Is it wrong?

anyway my specs,
AMD Richland A8-6600k
600 Watts power
8gig ram (2x 4g gskill ripjaws)
2TB Hdd

 

[wss_003]

you would be correct if you were talking about two graphics cards but when talking about apu its a hole different story and in most cases doesn't work at all what kind of budget are you looking at and what resolution do you play in

 

[RatchetGamer]

you would be correct if you were talking about two graphics cards but when talking about apu its a hole different story and in most cases doesn't work at all what kind of budget are you looking at and what resolution do you play in

Ok thanks,
I play in 1280x768

 

[wss_003]

something like an r7 240 would be more than enough for that resolution and is less than 70$

 

[Cristi72]

Hello,

For using Hybrid Crossfire, you'll need a Radeon HD 6670:
http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/dual-graphics#desktop

 

[wss_003]

from personal experience and others on here that is nothing but a headache and getting help from amd has proven futile plus useing ddr3 ram for graphics even in crossfire makes little sense

 

[RatchetGamer]

Thanks for the opinions and answers... I have decided to go for a n r7-240 like what wss_003 has said.... Mods can close this thread now.

Till the next time I get a headache from this. How can I commend wss_003?