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xfire msi 290 oc with 8350

Rasch said:
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This tells everything really.
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Looks like all of us who use SB Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs need to ditch it for Crysis3 right,especially those of us who don't overclock.

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OTH,it could be just a continual moving target so people can just justify buying new hardware every 3 months,which I suppose if you are a hardware enthusiast(and less of a gamer) I suppose is justified in its own right.

I can kind of understand it,the upgrade itch can be quite hard to get rid of. One of my mates built three different rigs and bought a new laptop one year to satisfy it!! :eek:
 
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Upgrade wars are never ending,like with my mate. He always finds some way to justify getting new hardware and his other half has sort of given up trying to stop him.

OTH,what she does not know,is that he would have spent even more money(which he should not be spending) if I did not talk him out of buying lots more needless things.
 
Either way Cat, what's your opinion on the OP's question.
Would he bottleneck an R9 290 Crossfire with an FX8350, yes or no :p?

EDIT : Pretty sure I said as soon as FS was mentioned it's not really relevant as it's not for finding out bottlenecks for gaming.
 
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Rasch said:
I linked that graph to state that the main problem with AMD chips is the bad ipc and having bad min fps.
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Yet,you find one review which seems to show this and where is the FPS timeline to show that?? It could have one spike at the beginning of the benchmark which is an anomaly. Plenty of reviews seem to contradict what you are saying - GameGPU tested Crysis3 Lost Island which is the latest expansion to Crysis3 and it runs fine.
AMD CPUs are fine in Crysis3 as indicated by loads of other reviews,and from my own experience of several people playing it. CryENGINE3 threads very well.

Its also one of the Mantle enabled engines,ie,Star Citizen will use it,so if anything it is a poor choice anyway!! :p


Martini1991 said:
Either way Cat, what's your opinion on the OP's question.
Would he bottleneck an R9 290 Crossfire with an FX8350, yes or no :p?

EDIT : Pretty sure I said as soon as FS was mentioned it's not really relevant as it's not for finding out bottlenecks for gaming.
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OP didn't say what games they were playing did they??

What if it is a game where Crossfire scales badly on any platform??
 
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Mate i have the FX8350 myself and i see it run Crysis 3.Yes they doing fine.But I7's do a lot better.Hell i had same avg fps in mission2 with my 7950 vapor-x.Hance the cpu bottleneck.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
OP didn't say what games they were playing did they??

What if it is a game where Crossfire scales badly on any platform??
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Agh, we're going this route, nvm Cat :p

There's only a very very small list of games that won't be bottlenecked regardless.
And if it's a bad scaling game? Just walk the dinosaur.
 
Kaapstad said:
The graphics score is independent. Any of the intel i5s or i7s running at the same clocks will allow the cards to score roughly the same Graphics score. If you do score less on graphics score with a 8350 it means there is a bottleneck. The one thing you must not compare is the overall score as this will have Physics added in which gives the i7s an advantage.
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so im not really that bottlenecked that much?
 
If anyone wants the best performance out of their TOP of the line gpus from both side.IT needs to be paired with an Intel CPU.It is a fact!
 
Martini1991 said:
Agh, we're going this route, nvm Cat :p

There's only a very very small list of games that won't be bottlenecked regardless.
And if it's a bad scaling game? Just walk the dinosaur.
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Nobody asked him what games he is playing?? He could trying to get higher framerates in Skyrim for all we know,and that has crappy Crossfire scaling and AFAIK DX9 games still don't have frame pacing out - supposedly that will come out in the near future. Heck,even with Nvidia cards Skyrim still has issues.

You seem to repeatedly walking the same old dinosaur too. Why are you so terrified to ask him the games he is playing?

These are basic questions.

But since it is not your money to spend,you won't ask them. Its easy to waste someone elses money.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Nobody asked him what games he is playing?? He could trying to get higher framerates in Skyrim for all we know,and that has crappy Crossfire scaling and AFAIK DX9 games still don't have frame pacing out - supposedly that will come out in the near future. Heck,even with Nvidia cards Skyrim still has issues.
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I alluded to games in my first post.

There's thousands of games available, yet people only seem to focus on about 3.
And I've mentioned engines (games) and their differing effect about 3 times......

EDIT : Cat, will you stop going OTT? Jesus Christ man, how am I wasting money by pretty much suggesting it's upto him if he thinks the set up is worth it, as I'd be against an R9 290 Crossfire with an FX8350.
I guess you're just in one of "those" moods against today.
 
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This is turning out to be amd bashing when this is not what the op was intending, my to pennys worth was to say you dont need intel cpu's to xfire 290's as im having no problems but ive been told by Martini1991 that ive wasted my money and im ignorant.
 
Martini1991 said:
I alluded to games in my first post.

There's thousands of games available, yet people only seem to focus on about 3.
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So again until he says what games he is playing its a moot point.

People are so quick to spend other people's money,without asking them the most basic question.

What games is he having the problems with??

Not one of you have asked him that.

It could be GW2 which means CPU is probably the issue,or it could BF4 MP where the CPU should be fine.
 
Choimaloy75 said:
This is turning out to be amd bashing when this is not what the op was intending, my to pennys worth was to say you dont need intel cpu's to xfire 290's as im having no problems but ive been told by Martini1991 that ive wasted my money and im ignorant.
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You have wasted your money imo, because you're running R9 290X's and LTMatt in games will get better FPS than you with a lesser GPU set up.

That's the definition of wasted money to me, and you're ignorant by your responses of "I'm happy".

OP's question will it bottleneck, and yes it will, unless you play a very select number of games, hence why we've had two AMD FX83 owners with single R9 290X's give us their bottleneck examples.

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
So again until he says what games he is playing its a moot point.

People are so quick to spend other people's money,without asking them the most basic question.

What games is he having the problems with??

Not one of you have asked him that.

It could be GW2 which means CPU is probably the issue,or it could BF4 MP where the CPU should be fine.
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Even in BF4 MP you'd have a bottleneck with R9 290's in Crossfire (Although that's all now being blamed on directX as LTMatt bottlenecks with his i7 26XX)
 
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