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Hi guys, I want to get a new video card for the wife to use with her A8-3850K system and I was wondering if I should match it with a 6670 or get a higher card like HD7770 etc... Also she run dual 19" monitors at the moment should I go with 1GB DDR5 or 2GB DDR3? Thanks!
     
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I'm pretty sure the 6670 is the highest card AMD supports for CrossFire with their APU lineup. The A8-3850 is optimized for CF with a 6670. Anything higher isn't officially supported, anything lower isn't as high of performance.

I'd stick to a 6670.

Now, you could also get higher than a 6670 for better performance....but you'd have to get a much nicer card to get better performance since you'd be losing the onboard gpu portion of the APU.
 
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I'm pretty sure the 6670 is the highest card AMD supports for CrossFire with their APU lineup. The A8-3850 is optimized for CF with a 6670. Anything higher isn't officially supported, anything lower isn't as high of performance.
I'd stick to a 6670.
Now, you could also get higher than a 6670 for better performance....but you'd have to get a much nicer card to get better performance since you'd be losing the onboard gpu portion of the APU.

Ic what you mean, I guess I was kind of wondering if I should stick with the CF 6670 or grab something like the 7xxxx line up like the 7750 or 7770 that has 1GB Ram and is DDR5 over 6670 DDR3 2GB version. I just don't want to grab something high end and bottleneck the CPU because if it.

Let me put the question a bit different here for others to answer.

1. What is the highest level single GPU card that I can run that will not bottlenect the APU?
2. For dual 10" LCD monitors should I go with the HD6670 2GB DDR3 or HD6670 1GB DDR5?
     
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Sorry for taking so long. However, after doing a lot of research, it seems like the 6570 is going to be your best bet. Check out this link to a source from AMD.

However, it seems like a 7770 will outperform CFX'd 6670's....so you should get at LEAST a 7770 if you want better performance.

Monitor size doesn't matter, it's number of pixels. However, I'd probably go 2GB GDDR3.

Bottlenecking the GPU: the 7770 will do better than CF 6670, so anything better than a 7770 will be a step up
About bottlenecking the CPU, it depends on the program. GTA will be bottlenecked by your CPU, BF3 will be bottlenecked by your GPU. Unless you get like CF 7970's to play in Eyefinity, you should be fine and not worry about bottlenecking.
 
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Sorry for taking so long. However, after doing a lot of research, it seems like the 6570 is going to be your best bet. Check out this link to a source from AMD.
However, it seems like a 7770 will outperform CFX'd 6670's....so you should get at LEAST a 7770 if you want better performance.
Monitor size doesn't matter, it's number of pixels. However, I'd probably go 2GB GDDR3.
Bottlenecking the GPU: the 7770 will do better than CF 6670, so anything better than a 7770 will be a step up
About bottlenecking the CPU, it depends on the program. GTA will be bottlenecked by your CPU, BF3 will be bottlenecked by your GPU. Unless you get like CF 7970's to play in Eyefinity, you should be fine and not worry about bottlenecking.

Thanks! I sorry got late to this but I got the XFX HD6670 2GB DDR3 card and is CF with her APU. Seems to be running just fine with no problems for now. The card cost me new $74. thumb.gif
     
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I'm thinking you'll enjoy the performance, regardless. Post a screenie showing that Windows is "accepting" your CrossFire setup. I "think" I had my CF setup on my first build, but I wonder what a "properly" set up one looks like.
 
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I'm thinking you'll enjoy the performance, regardless. Post a screenie showing that Windows is "accepting" your CrossFire setup. I "think" I had my CF setup on my first build, but I wonder what a "properly" set up one looks like.

Well not sure what screenshot to post but here one with GW2, CPU-Z and AMD Vision Engine Control Center showing active CF.



The main important thing I notice is to have in the bios the on-board graphic activated, then installing the latest drivers + CF drivers, and setting it up on the vision engine control center panel.
Edited by ITAngel - 11/11/12 at 8:24pm
     
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That did it! The right-side of that showing CCC acknowledging AMD Radeon Dual Graphics is what I was looking for. That's awesome!
 
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That did it! The right-side of that showing CCC acknowledging AMD Radeon Dual Graphics is what I was looking for. That's awesome!

Np, glad that helped. biggrin.gif
     
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