3 Way Radeon Fury X CrossFire Build (Maybe 4-Way)

[Folix]

Here's a piece by pc per. about 2 to 3 card set ups of the fury x and 980 ti: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Fury-X-vs-NVIDIA-GTX-980-Ti-2-and-3-Way-Multi-GPU-Performance/Power-Consu

in quick summary the fury x scales better in multi gpu setups, and the improvements of adding a 3rd card to either are minimal to negligible. worth a read as you consider your set up

[VagabondWraith]

Here's a piece by pc per. about 2 to 3 card set ups of the fury x and 980 ti: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Fury-X-vs-NVIDIA-GTX-980-Ti-2-and-3-Way-Multi-GPU-Performance/Power-Consu

in quick summary the fury x scales better in multi gpu setups, and the improvements of adding a 3rd card to either are minimal to negligible. worth a read as you consider your set up

And even hurt performance in one test. 3-way is just a waste of time and money for virtually no gain.

[Vegetable]

dont you dare get an AMD CPU. That will cripple your Fury X's with bottlenecks. I'm with Linus on the fact that the 10% performance boost doesn't justify a 3rd GPU though. I'd grab a 4790k/5820k and 2 fury x's for sure though.

[-rascal-]

I see that you changed the CPU and motherboard to a i7-5930K and a X99 motherboard -- good choice.

 

From all the R9-Fury (air cooled version) reviews slowly coming out, they may be a better option than the R9-FuryX.

• You no longer have to deal with the AIO coolers (mounting them, and considering the probability of leaks)
• It's performance is just behind the R9-FuryX, and pulls quite a bit ahead of a GTX 980 -- and in some scenarios, comes close to the GTX 980 Ti
• Under light to medium loads, the fans are turned off, so there is not much noise
• The R9-Fury comes in at about $100 less than a R9-FuryX
• You are getting a large case anyways, you need one if you are using three or four GPU's regardless, so size won't be an issue
• Air flow should not be a problem (i.e. 900D, etc)

As of now, as far as we know, Sapphire and ASUS have their hands on the R9-Fury GPU's -- Sapphire's R9-Fury Tri-X, and ASUS's DirectCU3.

 

If you are looking into the Tri-X card, make sure your motherboard's PCI-E X16 slot spacing can accommodate it. The card is about 2.2 slots thick (typical on their Tri-X and Vapor-X coolers). In this situation, the MSi X99S SLI PLUS may run into a problem as the first two PCI-E X16 slots are exactly two slots apart.

[KirbyTech]

You could use an AMD cpue but if you are shelling out that much money on GPUs then Intel is the way to go.