Ryzen 5 1600 RX 480 Crossfire

[saylthecell]

I have two RX 480's currently planning on a system upgrade wondering if the ryzen 1600 plus 16 gbs of ram is enough to give a smooth crossfire experience so far crossfire is shit on the 8350fx. i really want to sell the cards and get a 1070. but it looks like i may lose money on the cards if i sell them so wondering if the upgrade is worth it ?

 

[SubaruWRX244]

Keep the RX 480s and get the Ryzen CPU.

 

[saylthecell]

Keep the RX 480s and get the Ryzen CPU.

So you believe 1600 ryzen is sufficient or would 1700 be more suitable

 

[SubaruWRX244]

1600 Should be fine.

 

[indsup]

Your cpu is what's hampering the performance of the 480's. Upgrade to the Ryzen and you will see a sizable difference on the games. The Ryzen is far and away a better cpu than the 8350. You will be able to take full advantage of the 480's with the Ryzen. The 8350 is probably hampering a single 480 not to mention two of them.

 

[saylthecell]

Your cpu is what's hampering the performance of the 480's. Upgrade to the Ryzen and you will see a sizable difference on the games. The Ryzen is far and away a better cpu than the 8350. You will be able to take full advantage of the 480's with the Ryzen. The 8350 is probably hampering a single 480 not to mention two of them.

Well said I'm going to purchase the parts, you know I've always had AMD team red. To be honest I still can't believe that the performance is real I'm just skeptical. But it is was it is.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Performance is better with Ryzen. Even a r3 1200 would probably be a good upgrade for you lol. Hey the 1600 though, then overclock it. I think you'll be happy with it.

 

[indsup]

I built my son a Ryzen 1600 system this year and he plays Battlefield 1 while streaming the game, running twitch talking to his friends. His is faster than my 4790 running at 4.4. He also has the 480 and is running games better than me while he is also doing all that and i am not. So i say you will not go wrong if you do get the 1600. This should be what kind of performance to expect from yours when you build it. Happy Gaming.

 

[saylthecell]

I built my son a Ryzen 1600 system this year and he plays Battlefield 1 while streaming the game, running twitch talking to his friends. His is faster than my 4790 running at 4.4. He also has the 480 and is running games better than me while he is also doing all that and i am not. So i say you will not go wrong if you do get the 1600. This should be what kind of performance to expect from yours when you build it. Happy Gaming.

Thanks, I've decided to go with a 1700 ryzen plus 256gb m.2 and x370 chipset I see this giving me more than I bargained for I will post some follow ups once I get this fx-8350 behind me I'm glad to see this day finally. I've been on the AMD train for awhile and it sucked until now. This FX series really blew. I can't believe I almost let my hopes for a top tier system go down the drain thanks to ryzen that's not going to happen. And I can proudly say I've never switched to team blue even though I strongly considered it many times. It's funny to see this ryzen crave shred Intel's market shares. I still think it's an apple/windows, lowes/home depot type of scenario where both companies work together to create false competition in order to balance the market. maybe I'm wrong but who knows it seems too good to be true. see amd this is what you do to your people I feel like a Chicago Cubs fan

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Good thing is next year they are supposed to be bringing out new CPUs again on am4. I'm about to upgrade from my old 7950 to an RX 480 8gb, so that should be a nice upgrade to go with my 1600, which I've clocked to 3.7ghz for now. Maybe I'll try to push higher, will have to see. Last cinebench was like 1227, which seems respectable.

 

[saylthecell]

Good thing is next year they are supposed to be bringing out new CPUs again on am4. I'm about to upgrade from my old 7950 to an RX 480 8gb, so that should be a nice upgrade to go with my 1600, which I've clocked to 3.7ghz for now. Maybe I'll try to push higher, will have to see. Last cinebench was like 1227, which seems respectable.

Yeah I went from a 280x I think to the RX480 at launch gotta say it was well worth it even though crossfire on the fx 8350 is crap so the second card didn't net any gains it just wrecked performance. I recently removed one rx480 from the system and the performance is much better in all titles.

 

[chemmajorp53]

Multi-GPU setups are more trouble than they're worth. A lot of games don't support them and most of the ones that do don't have good scaling anyways. At current prices you could sell the RX 480s to some miner for $260-300 each and buy a 980 ti or GTX 1070 (if you get lucky) for $350 or less, which would be worth it IMO. Always better to have a good single GPU.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

I've come to this conclusion as well. I mean sure it's great to have the extra performance, but by the time you spend the extra for the board that supports dual cards, extra for the high end PSU, plus extra expense on the second card, plus trying to keep both cards cool, yeah you've got those, and then when companies quit supporting whatever technology you are using on the newer titles for the cards you are running....

Basically it just seems that dual cards are more money and trouble than they are worth.

 

[saylthecell]

I've come to this conclusion as well. I mean sure it's great to have the extra performance, but by the time you spend the extra for the board that supports dual cards, extra for the high end PSU, plus extra expense on the second card, plus trying to keep both cards cool, yeah you've got those, and then when companies quit supporting whatever technology you are using on the newer titles for the cards you are running....

Basically it just seems that dual cards are more money and trouble than they are worth.

I'm going to try and sell my RX 480's if I can get sufficient money for them I'm wanting to get a 1070 gtx.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

They were going on eBay for a bit. Just did a quick search and just under 300 to a little over seems to be the going rate. Maybe just spring for the 1080 while you're at it.

 

[SubaruWRX244]

Don't understand why you would sell. RX 480s work to to pare with a GTX 1080 , let alone slaps the GTX 1070 in the face..

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Benchmarks I saw were more in line with the gtx 1060 unless they have improved drivers. A friend's of mine got a 1089tu and is selling me his rd480 which is a nice upgrade from my old 7950.

 

[saylthecell]

Don't understand why you would sell. RX 480s work to to pare with a GTX 1080 , let alone slaps the GTX 1070 in the face..

So far my experience with crossfire has been bad. When I say bad I mean like bad some games won't work. I'm constantly looking on the web for answers on driver fixes settings and stuff I don't have time for the bullcrap anymore. When I first started PC gaming it wasn't so bad over the years it's just plain annoying. I'm getting a 1080