building pc

[james61]

Hi all looking for help on cpu motherboard & crossfire or sli for gaming


CPU Fx or AMD A-Series APU Processors
Motherboard msi or asus gigabyte
crossfire or sli

built one many years ago so as i said for gaming but don't want to spend a fortune hoping to spend £250 upwards thanks hope someone can help me thanks

[opel80uk]

Where's the moose hunter when you need him?..............

[Ferral]

I know, the Moose is great when it comes to AMD builds and sourcing the parts at good prices

[jim]

Given that you're talking about a fairly low budget @ £250, why are you interested in SLI / Crossfire?

And when you say "£250 upwards", what is the range you're thinking about?

[ik9000]

can you do crossfire with AMD APUs?

And do you really need 2 graphics cards? Just get one (better) GPU for the same price and it will be better, last longer, and usually has fewer driver issues.

What is your budget and what components do you need to get vs have already? You say £250 upwards, but what are you trying to buy with that?

[james61]

Given that you're talking about a fairly low budget @ £250, why are you interested in SLI / Crossfire?

And when you say "£250 upwards", what is the range you're thinking about?

starting at that price and building up

[james61]

what i'm trying to say is two graphic cards better than one and is it better getting amd intergrated cpu with graphics and £250 is the starting off price and building up from there as i go along

[MrJim]

A budget of "£250 upwards" is a bit tricky to help you with...an upper limit would make things much easier? Also, I assume you already have other components such as case, PSU, storage, monitor, Keyboard etc? What resolution do you want to game at, and what sorts of games do you tend to play?

[MrJim]

can you do crossfire with AMD APUs?

Yes you can, in AMD-speak it's called 'Dual Graphics'. They limit it to working with an APU & an R7 based card, I suppose to protect their discreet GPU market (or maybe the faster discreet cards are just too fast for the APU?). Anyway, the short answer is yes, but in a limited way

[james61]

1600x900 it's for 40'' lcd screen

A budget of "£250 upwards" is a bit tricky to help you with...an upper limit would make things much easier? Also, I assume you already have other components such as case, PSU, storage, monitor, Keyboard etc? What resolution do you want to game at, and what sorts of games do you tend to play?

[jim]

2 graphics cards are better than one (if they're of the same spec), but they would also be twice as expensive.

If you've got (for example) £100 to spend, you're probably better off buying one card @ £100 each than two cards @ £50 each.

[jim]

I'm thinking something like:

CPU: A8 7600 @ £75
MB: Gigabyte GA-F2A58M-HD2 @ £35
RAM: 1*4GB DDR3 @ £30

(although I'm sure someone can squeeze some more value, I've just looked at Scan and FM2+)

That's £140, then you can use the remaining £110 on case, small SSD or decent HDD, and PSU.

If you need a Windows license as well, OP, that's going to be tricky.

When you've got a bit more money, I would add in a dedicated graphics card and another 4GB stick of RAM.

[james61]

is that going to run c.o.d and battlefeild 4 and latest games

[shaithis]

is that going to run c.o.d and battlefeild 4 and latest games

It will run it, although at pretty low settings.

This is why you need to supply more information. Resolutiona nd settings you want to run, games you want to play and max budget.

[james61]

It will run it, although at pretty low settings.

This is why you need to supply more information. Resolutiona nd settings you want to run, games you want to play and max budget.

MSI 970A-G43 Socket AM3+ LAN 8-channel audio ATX Motherboard
AMD FX-4130 3.8GHz Socket AM3+ 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Corsair 4GB DDR3 1600Mhz Vengeance Memory card don't know.

[jim]

What's that a list of?