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Should I crossfire or stick to one card?

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So my older brother's friend is selling a used Asus r9 270 2gb vram (non x) for $40. I asked him if he overclocked the card and if he did any mining on the card. He said no oc and only mined for a couple of days. 

Was thinking of upgrading from my HIS 7850 1Gb vram to that asus card because of how cheap it is. 

 

I know I can crossfire but I know the 7850 is lower the asus card by a bit. I looked at the benchmarks on the r9 270 which I can oc to the 270x marks if I wanted to and its about 15% faster than my 7850. If anyone can find crossfire benchmarks that would be great? 

 
I game on 1 1080p Monitor with one 19 in monitor for general stuff. 

 

1) Should I crossfire or stick to one card? 

 

2) Sell my 7850 so I get money

 

3) replace the 550ti in my family pc to the 7850

 

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fx 6300 oc to 4.3mhz

asus m5a97 R2.0 mobo

8gb 1866mhz gskill ram

650w Rosewill Hive PSU 

 

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For 40$ you cant go wrong either way. I say go ahead and get the 270's

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40 bucks, why wouldn't you? It'll also be a handy troubleshoot card if you don't care about the crossfire

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I don't use Radeon cards but I say why not? If it's 40 dollars then it's worth it. In my opinion spending full price to get another card would be unnecessary.

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yo hella, get the 270

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So my older brother's friend is selling a used Asus r9 270 2gb vram (non x) for $40. I asked him if he overclocked the card and if he did any mining on the card. He said no oc and only mined for a couple of days. 

Was thinking of upgrading from my HIS 7850 1Gb vram to that asus card because of how cheap it is. 

 

I know I can crossfire but I know the 7850 is lower the asus card by a bit. I looked at the benchmarks on the r9 270 which I can oc to the 270x marks if I wanted to and its about 15% faster than my 7850. If anyone can find crossfire benchmarks that would be great? 

 
I game on 1 1080p Monitor with one 19 in monitor for general stuff. 

 

1) Should I crossfire or stick to one card? 

 

2) Sell my 7850 so I get money

 

3) replace the 550ti in my family pc to the 7850

 

Specs

fx 6300 oc to 4.3mhz

asus m5a97 R2.0 mobo

8gb 1866mhz gskill ram

650w Rosewill Hive PSU 

just get the 270, sell the 7850 as it only has 1gb of vram and so it would slow down the 270 a lot.

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Thanks for the replies Everyone. I will try out crossfire when I get the card and see if its worth the crossfiring. I never crossfired before so this will a great experiment with my system. If I dont like it I can always either sell the 550ti or 7850 to get money into other things(new ssd would be nice on my system). 

Diamond Cube https://pcpartpicker.com/b/wvPscf 

Diamond 2.0 The FX Rev 2.0 http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Z6sMLk

The only Ryce that can Make It Shine Gamer plus a Student Games,Tech,and everything in Between. Showing all Love to@victoriajustice

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