r9 290 with HD 5450 as adpter

[Lexxuzzz]

my 290 dosent have a vga for my scond screen so im using my old 5450 for it in my secon slot . will this decrease my fps in games

also i have 8gb of ram but its like 653mhz is tha bottlenecking my pc?

[thekeemo]

yes

[dragoon20005]

^^ what?

 

if you are running a second screen off your HD5450

 

and the 290 on your main

 

nothing wrong

 

is your RAM DDR2 or DDR3?

[Clyne]

same as his ^^^^^

but get one of these instead

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-DVI-Cable-Adapter-DVIVGAMF/dp/B000067SOH

[dragoon20005]

same as his ^^^^^

but get one of these instead

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-DVI-Cable-Adapter-DVIVGAMF/dp/B000067SOH

290 DVI ports dont accept the DVI to VGA adapter

 

the DVI ports are only digital output

[Clyne]

290 DVI ports dont accept the DVI to VGA adapter

 

the DVI ports are only digital output

well my r9 270x has dvi d and dvi i

[dragoon20005]

well my r9 270x has dvi d and dvi i

290 is the special case

 

[Excon]

well my r9 270x has dvi d and dvi i

Thats nice but your 270X is a rebranded 7870, they removed all analog outputs from the 290(x)

[Clyne]

290 is the special case

 

it's all digital, displayport, hdmi, 2 dvi

[dragoon20005]

it's all digital, displayport, hdmi, 2 dvi

the adapter which you linked only works with DVI-I

 

there is a cross pin on the adapter which prevents you from using it on the 290

[Electronics Wizardy]

^^ what?

 

if you are running a second screen off your HD5450

 

and the 290 on your main

 

nothing wrong

 

is your RAM DDR2 or DDR3?

653x2 1306 or 1333. The speed you see is mega transfers not clock speed. Megatransfers is 2x clock on ddr3 (double data rate 3)

 

I used 2 gpu's like this before. Works perfect. You can run game on any monitor.

[Lexxuzzz]

i have ddr3 ram two sticks 

[dragoon20005]

i have ddr3 ram two sticks 

ah ok that is 1333MHz sticks then

 

but yea

 

as mentioned

 

you can use the low end gpu to power your smaller monitor

 

and you still can game on your main gpu