Kaveri

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I wanna build a gaming PC and I need it to be on a budget.

I was thinking of going with a AMD A10 7850K with a Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X.

I was wondering when I have the money, what kind of GPU could I use to do a Hybrid Crossfire.

If I did do that but I have more money, the G1.Sniper A88X has more than one 16X slots so what if i wanna do 2 way crossfire and the integrated GPU on the APU (3 way crossfire altogether). Would it be possible?

Thanks in advance...

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You can only crossfire with R7 GPUs that use DDR3 RAM.  Usually these would be HD 7750s and low end HD 7790s.

I don't think the G1.Sniper A88X has two full length pcie x16 slots.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128653

Nope, one runs at x4.

Physically, it looks like a x16, but in reality, it's not.  Don't run dual GPUs here.

To be honest, kaveri is a bit pricy.  If you went with an Athlon II X4 750K and a cheaper motherboard with a low-mid range GPU, you would still beat the kaveri performance.

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Read this:http://www.extremetech.com/computing/174632-amd-kaveri-a10-7850k-and-a8-7600-review-was-it-worth-the-wait-for-the-first-true-heterogeneous-chip/2

watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n0cS6mTIAA8#t=1651

i dont think the APU's support 3way either

also this

https://teksyndicate.com/forum/cpu/amd-7850k-or-i5-4670k/168475

and this

https://teksyndicate.com/forum/cpu/do-i-need-buy-old-apu-just-update-my-board/167690 (FM2+ related)

another

https://teksyndicate.com/forum/inboxexe/kaveri-review-meaningful-data/168184