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Hello, not that long ago I built my first gaming Pc . The graphics card of my choice was the HD radeon 7850 2gb. I now want to run dual GPU's and I want to know if two HD radeon 7850 would be as powerful as a GTX 670 or GTX 660 ti ?? If not is there any other types of cards that the HD readeon 7850 can work well with e.g the GTX 660 ?

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Of course two 7850s would perform well, but it would be much better to sell it and get a stronger single card like a 7970, 670, or 7950. Multiple-card configurations have plenty of compatibility problems, much greater power demands, more noise, and other issues. Ideally, you should only use multiple cards when they are 670s or 7970s (I don't/can't recommend the 680).

What are you trying to accomplish by adding the second card? What makes your one card inadequate?
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i have an XFX 3GB HD7950 and i can run battlefield at 100fps with no lag and ultra.

just in-case your thinking it must be my CPU it's not my CPU is AMD FX-6100.

also please make sure that your motherboard and use 2 GPU's. you dont wanna ruin your pc
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ZeroToleranceVideos wrote i have an XFX 3GB HD7950 and i can run battlefield at 100fps with no lag and ultra.

just in-case your thinking it must be my CPU it's not my CPU is AMD FX-6100.

also please make sure that your motherboard and use 2 GPU's. you dont wanna ruin your pc

Not at 1080p you can't. Overclocked on my equivalent 7950, I can get 60 FPS constant with VSync enabled at 1080p max settings, but 100 is not going to happen. If anything, your CPU is actually going to hold you back because Bulldozer CPUs perform relatively poorly in games. Still, BF3 relies much more on the graphics card than it does on the CPU, so it doesn't matter too much.
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r00t wrote Of course two 7850s would perform well, but it would be much better to sell it and get a stronger single card like a 7970, 670, or 7950. Multiple-card configurations have plenty of compatibility problems, much greater power demands, more noise, and other issues. Ideally, you should only use multiple cards when they are 670s or 7970s (I don't/can't recommend the 680).

What are you trying to accomplish by adding the second card? What makes your one card inadequate?


This is my motherboard [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] .... So would the two GPU's work on this motherboard, I also have a 3rd gen i5 3750k. I started to record games and I want to get as much power from my pc as possible, for the best possible result. I have a 750w power supply so I think that should be enough I dont really want to lash out to get a new high end card :L
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r00t wrote Of course two 7850s would perform well, but it would be much better to sell it and get a stronger single card like a 7970, 670, or 7950. Multiple-card configurations have plenty of compatibility problems, much greater power demands, more noise, and other issues. Ideally, you should only use multiple cards when they are 670s or 7970s (I don't/can't recommend the 680).

What are you trying to accomplish by adding the second card? What makes your one card inadequate?


This is my motherboard [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] .... So would the two GPU's work on this motherboard, I also have a 3rd gen i5 3750k. I started to record games and I want to get as much power from my pc as possible, for the best possible result. I have a 750w power supply so I think that should be enough I dont really want to lash out to get a new high end card :L

Yes, you'll be able to run them fine as long as the PSU is of good enough quality. If you don't want to "lash out" like you said, though, the single card is what you're after. It will provide better stability than two cards, which is probably something you want if you're making videos.
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