5850 Bottleneck my system?

[Google247]

Hi all,

Just ordered:

Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor

MSI Z97 Gaming 7 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard

Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

Upgrading my old system, unfortunately i havent got the money to upgrade the graphics cards, I have 2x Sapphire 5850 in crossfire,

Now will these old graphics card bottle neck my gaming? will be playing Dragon Age Inquisition.

I think it will be okay for now?
Thanks.

 

[Marine-RX179]

You will need a more modern graphic card. 1GB VRAM isn't enough for demanding modern titles anymore.

 

[Google247]

Hi, I have 2x in crossfire doesn't that make it to 2gb?

 

[Google247]

It does say recommended 2gb VRAM.

 

[FredFlint]

Crossfire mirrors VRAM so each card has a copy of the same data so it’s still 1GB.

 

[Google247]

ah okay thanks, i guess it will be okay medium/high settings for now says minium 1gb, recommended 2gb

 

[Marine-RX179]

ah okay thanks, i guess it will be okay medium/high settings for now says minium 1gb, recommended 2gb

Another remind is that crossfire scale of old gen cards probably won't be great for new games...if the game doesn't benefit much from crossfire, the performance will crawl...

 

[Google247]

i guess i could try then first and see if it will cope, if not ile have to get a 285 or summat... @D thanks for the replies

 

[Tonester0011]

Try it first, nothing worse than hearing it wont work because 'enter arbitrary VRAM limit here'
You wont be able to play with any meaningful settings, that's because the 5850s are ancient. You already know this, hence the thread

20GB VRAM isn't going to help, so pretty pointless of Marine to bring it up.

 

[Devrij]

There are plenty of games that will be fine, but dragon age will require a fair bit of compromise on the settings. Get going now and start saving for a gpu that will do your rig justice.

 

[r7slayer]

should have asked for one for christmas mate school boy error lol. But yea youll need to upgrade as you probably wont have the GPU grunt anymore and if the game(s) you play don't scale well with crossfire you'll have very poor performance i'm afraid. Hopefully they can tank along a bit longer tho until you upgrade. You can only try mate until you say nope... Get to Overclockers UK and new GPU Time baby!

 

[cjgardens]

Overclock them as much as you can. I've had 2 of them cards and with a bit more volts they clock well

 

[muppet]

Yeah over clock them . I still have my 5850 in my sons pc . It will do 1040 on the core . It's a saphire .

 

[silvagti]

It will bottleneck your system but I guess the only way to know whether it's an issue will be to try it! You might be fine.

I'd be interested to hear how much of a difference upgrading from a i7-920 to a Devil Canyon i5 makes. Contemplating upgrading mine to something similar!

 

[Google247]

I will let you know how it goes from i7 920 to the i5 canyon, ive bit the bullet and im going for a Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB, need to ring overclockers tommoz to add it into my order.