Is this PC Build actually possible

[Deathwishs]

I plan on upgrading My build abit from what i have now over the next six months starting at christmas holidays. Here is my current list of specs.


Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 MotherBoard
1TB Hard Disk
AMD Powercolor 7790 1gb
AMD FX 6300 3.5ghz
Corsair Vengeance Jet Black 1866MHz Ram 4GB (2x2gb)
450 Watt Power Supply
Coolermaster K350 Case

This christmas i want to upgrade my gpu to a R9 280x. This would require me to up my psu aswell which is fine. But i do plan to purchase a second R9 280x and run them both in crossfire. I also want to add an 50gb-80gb SSD to run my OS on and another 4gb of RAM. Anyone got any recommendations on how i do this? At Christmas the first gpu and psu take priority. Unfortunately I can not get all of this at once due to budget problems thus the upgrading of the time span of 6 months. I want my overall build to be able to use 2 monitors and Run Most games on max graphics at around 60fps minimum for the next 3 or 4 years. Thanks for anyone who looks at this by the way

 

[Rugnir_Viking]

Hmm I say gpu 1 -> ram -> ssd -> gpu 2

This way you get the gaming power over the 7790 straight away, then the ram for multitasking/whatever else you want it for, then the ssd to improve game load times, and finally the next r9 280 to help with the graphics. once you've been that far you would need probably around 800w psu but thats not my specialty.

Also one the second, maybe even the first gpu is installed you may begin to be bottle necked by the processor. at some point it may be recommended to switch to a higher end processor

anyway yeah, it looks pretty good
oh and some advice - a bigger ssd is better. go with at least 128gb so you can record video onto it faster or put a few of your top games for blazing load times

 

[Deathwishs]

Hmm I say gpu 1 -> ram -> ssd -> gpu 2

This way you get the gaming power over the 7790 straight away, then the ram for multitasking/whatever else you want it for, then the ssd to improve game load times, and finally the next r9 280 to help with the graphics. once you've been that far you would need probably around 800w psu but thats not my specialty.

Also one the second, maybe even the first gpu is installed you may begin to be bottle necked by the processor. at some point it may be recommended to switch to a higher end processor

anyway yeah, it looks pretty good
oh and some advice - a bigger ssd is better. go with at least 128gb so you can record video onto it faster or put a few of your top games for blazing load times

Thanks for the Help! Now all i need to do is confirm about the psu and i must ask what do you mean bottleneck? And would a FX-9370 be fine or would that have the same problem.

 

[Rugnir_Viking]

Hmm I say gpu 1 -> ram -> ssd -> gpu 2

This way you get the gaming power over the 7790 straight away, then the ram for multitasking/whatever else you want it for, then the ssd to improve game load times, and finally the next r9 280 to help with the graphics. once you've been that far you would need probably around 800w psu but thats not my specialty.

Also one the second, maybe even the first gpu is installed you may begin to be bottle necked by the processor. at some point it may be recommended to switch to a higher end processor

anyway yeah, it looks pretty good
oh and some advice - a bigger ssd is better. go with at least 128gb so you can record video onto it faster or put a few of your top games for blazing load times

Thanks for the Help! Now all i need to do is confirm about the psu and i must ask what do you mean bottleneck? And would a FX-9370 be fine or would that have the same problem.

Okay. a bottleneck is when one component slows down the rest of the system. For example if your fx-6300 is taking twice as long as the gpu each frame, the gpu just does nothing on those frames :O

This is obviously a waste of power and yes a better cpu would work. its up to you what cpu you should pick but that one you said sounds fine - ive not owned one or read anything much about them yet but the 8350 should be enough so that should be better

 

[Deathwishs]

Hmm I say gpu 1 -> ram -> ssd -> gpu 2

This way you get the gaming power over the 7790 straight away, then the ram for multitasking/whatever else you want it for, then the ssd to improve game load times, and finally the next r9 280 to help with the graphics. once you've been that far you would need probably around 800w psu but thats not my specialty.

Also one the second, maybe even the first gpu is installed you may begin to be bottle necked by the processor. at some point it may be recommended to switch to a higher end processor

anyway yeah, it looks pretty good
oh and some advice - a bigger ssd is better. go with at least 128gb so you can record video onto it faster or put a few of your top games for blazing load times

Thanks for the Help! Now all i need to do is confirm about the psu and i must ask what do you mean bottleneck? And would a FX-9370 be fine or would that have the same problem.

Okay. a bottleneck is when one component slows down the rest of the system. For example if your fx-6300 is taking twice as long as the gpu each frame, the gpu just does nothing on those frames :O

This is obviously a waste of power and yes a better cpu would work. its up to you what cpu you should pick but that one you said sounds fine - ive not owned one or read anything much about them yet but the 8350 should be enough so that should be better

Thanks you so much for you help! Now i only need to find out for definate what kind of psu i need for crossfire R9 280x's. Sapphire's recomends at 1000 watt for crossfire but it sounds a bit to much for a rebranded 7970. But i may be wrong

 

[Rugnir_Viking]

Hmm I say gpu 1 -> ram -> ssd -> gpu 2

This way you get the gaming power over the 7790 straight away, then the ram for multitasking/whatever else you want it for, then the ssd to improve game load times, and finally the next r9 280 to help with the graphics. once you've been that far you would need probably around 800w psu but thats not my specialty.

Also one the second, maybe even the first gpu is installed you may begin to be bottle necked by the processor. at some point it may be recommended to switch to a higher end processor

anyway yeah, it looks pretty good
oh and some advice - a bigger ssd is better. go with at least 128gb so you can record video onto it faster or put a few of your top games for blazing load times

Thanks for the Help! Now all i need to do is confirm about the psu and i must ask what do you mean bottleneck? And would a FX-9370 be fine or would that have the same problem.

Okay. a bottleneck is when one component slows down the rest of the system. For example if your fx-6300 is taking twice as long as the gpu each frame, the gpu just does nothing on those frames :O

This is obviously a waste of power and yes a better cpu would work. its up to you what cpu you should pick but that one you said sounds fine - ive not owned one or read anything much about them yet but the 8350 should be enough so that should be better

Thanks you so much for you help! Now i only need to find out for definate what kind of psu i need for crossfire R9 280x's. Sapphire's recomends at 1000 watt for crossfire but it sounds a bit to much for a rebranded 7970. But i may be wrong

Now I switched to my phone so my internet is slow. I would look this up. Hmm I don't know usually they overestimate it a bit for safety but I'd stick with what they say. If a card was top end in its time they can use alot of power. The gtx 580 can use 300 watts on its own so I wouldn't be surprised if you need that much for high end crossfire. However like I say look up the maximum power draw for each bit and add it up make the choice. It could be as low as 700w cards vary alot.

 

[Deathwishs]

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Now I switched to my phone so my internet is slow. I would look this up. Hmm I don't know usually they overestimate it a bit for safety but I'd stick with what they say. If a card was top end in its time they can use alot of power. The gtx 580 can use 300 watts on its own so I wouldn't be surprised if you need that much for high end crossfire. However like I say look up the maximum power draw for each bit and add it up make the choice. It could be as low as 700w cards vary alot.
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Thanks so much for your help!