M5A97 Crossfire

[rabbitxl]

Ahoy, I just built my first "budget rig". Currently for a mobo, I am using the ASUS M5A97, CPU, AMD FX-6300 Black Edition, 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz RAM, and I have 2 TOTALLY exact R5 230 Core Edition's, Basically I'm wondering if my CPU would bottleneck? Thanks in advance. 

[Majestic]

putting two extremely low-end GPU's in CF, even if it works, will not net you the results you would expect.

It can even negatively impact performance.

 

Why are you asking this question after you've built it?

[Jurrunio]

Let's say I hope you haven't spent any money on those two GPU. They are so bad

[rabbitxl]

14 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Let's say I hope you haven't spent any money on those two GPU. They are so bad

Only reason I bought them was because they were 2GB cards, not 1GB. They were 60.00 USD a piece. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, rabbitxl said:

Only reason I bought them was because they were 2GB cards, not 1GB. They were 60.00 USD a piece. 

return them if you can, thats a horrible value. You can a much faster gpu for less. I just bought a r9 270 for 40 usd used, and for 120 total you can get cards like a 1050 or a rx 460.

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

40 minutes ago, Majestic said:

putting two extremely low-end GPU's in CF, even if it works, will not net you the results you would expect.

It can even negatively impact performance.

 

Why are you asking this question after you've built it?

You can crossfire them low end gpus don't support CF

[Electronics Wizardy]

8 hours ago, Alaradia said:

You can crossfire them low end gpus don't support CF

Those cards support crossfire, there is just no reason to do so.

[Jurrunio]

23 minutes ago, rabbitxl said:

Only reason I bought them was because they were 2GB cards, not 1GB. They were 60.00 USD a piece. 

Oh no, you didn't just spend money on them, but got ripped off bad as well.

 

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I'm not sure whether 2 R5 230s are faster than 1 R7 240, but the other two cards mentioned are clearly faster than them

[SpaceGhostC2C]

1 hour ago, rabbitxl said:

Basically I'm wondering if my CPU would bottleneck? 

If the cards even support CrossFireX, the answer would be no. Your limiting factor would still be the GPU(s).

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

29 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Those cards support crossfire, there is just no reason to do so.

can i get a link since all the pictures i can find dont have the crossfire connectors at the top of cards 

[Electronics Wizardy]

8 hours ago, Alaradia said:

can i get a link since all the pictures i can find dont have the crossfire connectors at the top of cards 

you don't need those to do crossfire, like on the 480.

 

look under teh specs tab https://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/r5

 

[rabbitxl]

2 minutes ago, Alaradia said:

can i get a link since all the pictures i can find dont have the crossfire connectors at the top of cards 

I was under the assumption I needed a "Crossfire Bridge" to use it, however when I installed the 2nd gpu into the pci-e, on crimson, it stated I had 1 R5 {primary) and the 2nd was on standby. 

[rabbitxl]

59 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

return them if you can, thats a horrible value. You can a much faster gpu for less. I just bought a r9 270 for 40 usd used, and for 120 total you can get cards like a 1050 or a rx 460.

I know it is, ideally I wanted a 290x. 

[OuchMyFaceyHole]

1 minute ago, rabbitxl said:

I know it is, ideally I wanted a 290x. 

Then why did you buy this garbage in the first place? 

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

17 minutes ago, rabbitxl said:

I was under the assumption I needed a "Crossfire Bridge" to use it, however when I installed the 2nd gpu into the pci-e, on crimson, it stated I had 1 R5 {primary) and the 2nd was on standby. 

you can run multiple gpus on the same computer fine which is what you're currently doing but in order cross fire you need a crossfire bridge and crossfire connectors on the cards for the bridge to connect to

those gold connectors at the top of thiws card are cross fire connector

 

[rabbitxl]

On 6/26/2017 at 5:03 PM, Alaradia said:

you can run multiple gpus on the same computer fine which is what you're currently doing but in order cross fire you need a crossfire bridge and crossfire connectors on the cards for the bridge to connect to

those gold connectors at the top of thiws card are cross fire connector

 

No no, what ended up happening is i ran into some complications with the connector. I have the bridge, but dont see anywhere to mount it on the R5 230 Core. Strangely enough, Radeon recognizes that a second card is installed, and shows it a secondary. 

 

[Krillingt75961]

On ‎6‎/‎26‎/‎2017 at 7:03 PM, Alaradia said:

you can run multiple gpus on the same computer fine which is what you're currently doing but in order cross fire you need a crossfire bridge and crossfire connectors on the cards for the bridge to connect to

those gold connectors at the top of thiws card are cross fire connector

 

You actually don't need a bridge for Xfire anymore with newer cards. These specific cards should support Xfire in some way and since they don't allow it through a bridge, they likely will do it through the motherboard.

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

2 hours ago, rabbitxl said:

No no, what ended up happening is i ran into some complications with the connector. I have the bridge, but dont see anywhere to mount it on the R5 230 Core. Strangely enough, Radeon recognizes that a second card is installed, and shows it a secondary. 

 

you can have multiple gpus in a computer withought using cross fire you just use them as extra inputs its not strange

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

1 hour ago, Krillingt75961 said:

You actually don't need a bridge for Xfire anymore with newer cards. These specific cards should support Xfire in some way and since they don't allow it through a bridge, they likely will do it through the motherboard.

aggh it's true it's just because they're so terrible they don't need the bridge since so little data is being transferred 

[Jumper118]

19 minutes ago, Alaradia said:

link to information about this?

LOL this has been a thing since the r9 290 you been under a rock for 3 years? 

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

Just now, Jumper118 said:

LOL this has been a thing since the r9 290 you been under a rock for 3 years? 

nope just haven't crossfired in the last 3 years due to crossfire and sli being terrible 

[Jumper118]

37 minutes ago, Alaradia said:

nope just haven't crossfired in the last 3 years due to crossfire and sli being terrible 

Why would you even come in a thread you know nothing about then? 

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

1 minute ago, Jumper118 said:

Why would you even come in a thread you know nothing about then? 

the question was if it would bottle neck not if he could crossfire