Is it worth a RX 580 Crossfire for 165€?

[kambiz96]

Hi guys! I have a doubt. My GTX 780 just died the other day and I need something temporal before a complete upgrade of my PC. So I was looking for second handed graphic cards and I found this deal. Two Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 4GB for doing crossfire for 165€ total cost. Do you think that it's a good option? My requeriments are playing on 1080p/60hz at ultra settings. I heard that this pair of graphic cards can compete with the GTX 1080/GTX 1080 Ti in some examples (depending on how optimized the games are for crossfire). This are my actual specs:

 

-Intel i7 4770K OC at 4,3GHz

-8GB RAM 1600 MHz CL7 (I'll upgrade to 16gb eventually)

-Gigabyte GTX 780 Windforce OC 3GB R.I.P

-PSU Tacens 750W

-Hyper 212 Evo

 

Buying these RX 580 will be a temporary solution until I upgrade to ryzen zen 2, DDR4, etc, etc.

[samcool55]

As someone that ran rx 480 8GB in crossfire for a few weeks, don't do it.

It's an absolutely stupid config.

 

1 RX 480 will be enough tho. I have one with a 4690k@4.4Ghz (yes not the same as yours) but the CPU is a real issue with new AAA games.

Also for 1080p60 you don't really need more than 1. I even use mine for VR and 1080p144Hz gaming (yes it lacks a bit of power but it does run surprisingly well)

 

You can always buy both and flip one.

[driftz240]

Please for the love of god dont crossfire 2 580s. In SOME examples, such as synthetic benchmarks, they can compete with a 1080/ ti, but for 98% of the other games, it wont be worth it. Maybe just buy one of the cards for less and use the rest to save up for a new cpu or gpu?

 

[trevb0t]

Sell your GTX 780 for arounf 90, add that to the 165 you're looking at spending: You're getting closer to the ballpark of an RX 5700 which is a SIGNIFICANTLY better buy.

[kelvinhall05]

Crossfire and SLI are dead, stupid, and have literally no reason to exist. If you want to SLI/Crossfire you have more money than sense.

 

 

Either get a single 580 for hopefully half of what he's asking or get a single better card.

[Epimetheus]

31 minutes ago, trevb0t said:

Sell your GTX 780 for arounf 90, add that to the 165 you're looking at spending: You're getting closer to the ballpark of an RX 5700 which is a SIGNIFICANTLY better buy.

How are you supposed to sell a dead old card though

[trevb0t]

Just now, Epimetheus said:

How are you supposed to sell a dead old card though

Ah, didn't see the dead part.

Still could grab 30 or so as "for parts only". Who knows.

[Epimetheus]

Getting them for crossfire is pretty stupid. However, 165 for two cards is a pretty good price. You could always sell one later

[kambiz96]

On 11/5/2019 at 5:29 PM, Epimetheus said:

Getting them for crossfire is pretty stupid. However, 165 for two cards is a pretty good price. You could always sell one later

Thank you all for the comments. I'm not into crossfire/sli as well as you. But 165€ for two cards I think it's not a bad deal. The guy sells only one for 85€. So should I pick just one?

I remind you it will be something temporary for 1080p/60fps at ultra. Also I work for a videogame magazine, so running well the games at this resolution and framerate it's a priority. Thank you again.

[JMak00]

On 11/5/2019 at 7:46 AM, samcool55 said:

 

I have one with a 4690k@4.4Ghz (yes not the same as yours) but the CPU is a real issue with new AAA games.

 

Thread jack alert...

 

I'm curious by what you mean here? I also have a 4690k oc'd to 4.4, too. What "issue" are you getting to? I only play world of tanks, though the new Division installed as well as Fornite and Apex for my kids.

[samcool55]

1 hour ago, JMak00 said:

Thread jack alert...

 

I'm curious by what you mean here? I also have a 4690k oc'd to 4.4, too. What "issue" are you getting to? I only play world of tanks, though the new Division installed as well as Fornite and Apex for my kids.

Don't know about the division but WoT, Fortnite and Apex aren't really that demanding.

I know my CPU maxes out in watch dogs 2 and recent AC titles and is the source of my limited performance. It cannot feed my RX 480 with enough information.

Not only are the average framerates lower than they should, frame drops happen more often and are more severe than they would be if my CPU wasn't an issue.

 

Also with other tasks you really notice the CPU is a big problem today.

I installed a game on an r5 1600 last week and took around 2 hours (was very CPU intensive because there was a lot of extracting). Did the same thing today on my 4690k, 4 hours...

 

For simple stuff it's still fine today, but for heavy games today and other compute tasks, it's really showing its age.

[JMak00]

24 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Don't know about the division but WoT, Fortnite and Apex aren't really that demanding.

I know my CPU maxes out in watch dogs 2 and recent AC titles and is the source of my limited performance. It cannot feed my RX 480 with enough information.

Not only are the average framerates lower than they should, frame drops happen more often and are more severe than they would be if my CPU wasn't an issue.

 

Also with other tasks you really notice the CPU is a big problem today.

I installed a game on an r5 1600 last week and took around 2 hours (was very CPU intensive because there was a lot of extracting). Did the same thing today on my 4690k, 4 hours...

 

For simple stuff it's still fine today, but for heavy games today and other compute tasks, it's really showing its age.

Thanks for replying and that's really interesting.

 

I still love my 4690k and feel lucky that my gaming needs haven't expanded beyond World of Tanks and my boys haven't moved beyond Fornite and Apex.

 

However, thats likely to change soon when I get them sole live gold and ultimate pass for x ox and they'll be able to access more games on both the console and my PC. It will be interesting to see how the 4590k keeps up with other games.

 

Im running a RX 580 from XFX that's clocked at 1450 and am pushing Tanks at 100fps on a 1440 display with a mix of high and med settings.