APU crossfire with GPU

[loler920a]

Hey Guys I was just wondering about crossfire and I found out that an APU can crossfire with a GPU

 

So what I'm trying to figure out is that if an A8 5600K can crossfire with a radeonHD7770 

 

will I just be putting more strain on my system and end up slowing it down

Not see a differance at all

or will there be a small slight improvement

 

specs that might add more help

 

CPU: AMD A8 5600K

GPU:radeonHD7770

RAM:4GB corsair vengeance

[Erik4boss]

You can only crossfire two of the same cards. No this would not work at all.

[Yoinkerman]

That's not true of crossfire.  However I don't know if this case will work.  If it does work I wouldn't expect much of an improvement.

 

EDIT: a little bit of looking claims hybrid crossfire (which is what you're looking to do here) only works with an APU and a 6670 or a 6570

 

You can only crossfire two of the same cards. No this would not work at all.

[Erik4boss]

That's not true of crossfire.  However I don't know if this case will work.  If it does work I wouldn't expect much of an improvement.

That's true. I was thinking of SLI. Anyway I don't suggest you do this. Could you not like use the integrated for browsing purposes (less power) and when gaming, rendering and stuff use the graphic card?

[Liam-McShane]

I think the highest GPU that can go with that APU is a HD 7670

[Guest GRRigger]

Apu + gpu crossfire is horrible.

7770 blows it out of the water

 

the highest you can crossfire with is 7750, but you will have horrible stutter and problems

 

7750 can game on for itself, and is much powerful than iGPU

 

your best option would be 7770 alone

[Chevaishr]

just use the 7770 as a dedicated gpu and clock the A8 to the moon 

[mc141]

If it was hypotheticaly possible Wouldnt the apu down scale the discrete card making the crosfire way way slower than the discrete alone.

[GPUXPert]

The 5600K can only run dual graphics with the a 6670/6650 .

[WoodenMarker]

A single oc'ed 7770 is currently better than any hybrid CF.