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Is crossfire Radeon R9 270x Worth it?

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Crossfire and multi-GPU is dead for gaming purposes. I did this 6 years ago with 2x 270X and it wasn't great, as you're VRAM limited. I had an A8-5500 and 270X together and always found the CPU to bottleneck in BF4/other titles at the time. 

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I am building a PC for my best friend as a gift since he lost his many years ago and has not been able to get a new one. I already have most of the hardware accumulated from past builds the only thing I need to get is a power supply, case and FM2 socket motherboard. I have been having trouble finding a motherboard that has crossfire with the fm2 socket that isn't quite a bit of money. I was wondering if it would even be worth it to run crossfire at all that way a motherboard would be no problem to find and I could get a lower wattage power supply for him along with a smaller case since he doesn't like huge pc cases taking up a bunch of space.

The spec list of things that I have are as follows.

 

CPU: AMD A8-6500 (Quad-core 4.1GHz boost)

Memory: 1600MHz Patriot (2X8) [It was cheap ram to upgrade a prebuild HP]

GPU: I have 2 AMD Radeon R9 270x by MSI with a crossfire bridge. 

Storage: 500GB western digital with windows already pre installed

 

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Crossfire and multi-GPU is dead for gaming purposes. I did this 6 years ago with 2x 270X and it wasn't great, as you're VRAM limited. I had an A8-5500 and 270X together and always found the CPU to bottleneck in BF4/other titles at the time. 

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Main System Specifications: 

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X ||  CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Air Cooler ||  RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB(4x8GB) DDR4-3600 CL18  ||  Mobo: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero X570  ||  SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 1TB M.2-2280 Boot Drive/Some Games)  ||  HDD: 2X Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB(Game Drive)  ||  GPU: ASUS TUF Gaming RX 6900XT  ||  PSU: EVGA P2 1600W  ||  Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow  ||  Mouse: Logitech G502 Hero SE RGB  ||  Keyboard: Logitech G513 Carbon RGB with GX Blue Clicky Switches  ||  Mouse Pad: MAINGEAR ASSIST XL ||  Monitor: ASUS TUF Gaming VG34VQL1B 34" 

 

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I wouldn't bother with it. Use one GPU unless you need more display outputs from another GPU. 

Phobos: AMD Ryzen 7 2700, 16GB 3000MHz DDR4, ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070, 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 1030, 1TB Samsung SSD 980, 450W Corsair CXM, Corsair Carbide 175R, Windows 10 Pro

 

Polaris: Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2, 32GB 1600MHz DDR3, ASRock X79 Extreme6, 12GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, 6GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 1TB Crucial MX500, 750W Corsair RM750, Antec SX635, Windows 10 Pro

 

Pluto: Intel Core i7-2600, 32GB 1600MHz DDR3, ASUS P8Z68-V, 4GB XFX AMD Radeon RX 570, 8GB ASUS AMD Radeon RX 570, 1TB Samsung 860 EVO, 3TB Seagate BarraCuda, 750W EVGA BQ, Fractal Design Focus G, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

York (NAS): Intel Core i5-2400, 16GB 1600MHz DDR3, HP Compaq OEM, 240GB Kingston V300 (boot), 3x2TB Seagate BarraCuda, 320W HP PSU, HP Compaq 6200 Pro, TrueNAS CORE (12.0)

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No.

Corps aren't your friends. "Bottleneck calculators" are BS. Only suckers buy based on brand. It's your PC, do what makes you happy.  If your build meets your needs, you don't need anyone else to "rate" it for you. And talking about being part of a "master race" is cringe. Watch this space for further truths people need to hear.

 

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