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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: aarmel1 on March 23, 2014, 04:06:32 pm

Title: looking to upgrade graphics on G1.Sniper A88X (rev. 3.0) with new card
Post by: aarmel1 on March 23, 2014, 04:06:32 pm

I am looking for more performance out of my video card and I have a few questions.
Should I disable the onboard and go with the best card I can afford looking to spend around $250 or
should I go with the crossfire capable card. 

I tried to read about it on the website but I dont understand what card I need to get.
here is what it says
    Note:
1. Please use both AMD Dual Graphics technology qualified A-series APU and VGA card, detail information please refer to AMD website:
http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/dual-graphics/Pages/dual-graphics.aspx#3
2. If you use an AMD FM2+ A10/ A8-series qualified APU, suggest pairing with AMD Radeon™ R7-250/ 240-series VGA card.
3. If you use an AMD FM2 A10/ A8/ A6-series qualified APU, suggest pairing with AMD Radeon™ HD 6670/ 6570/ 6450-series VGA card.

Here is the card I am looking at SAPPHIRE 100364L Radeon R9 270X 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card.   is the r9 not compatible?

will I be able to run both the integrated card as well as the new card on the crossfire setting and will that be the best way to go?

Thanks for any guidance

windows 8.1
8g ram

Title: Re: looking to upgrade graphics on G1.Sniper A88X (rev. 3.0) with new card
Post by: Vezina on March 24, 2014, 12:01:39 am

The compatibility is up to the AMD driver.
Theoretically the onnboard GPU power could be added to the discrete one by the driver ,but with a much speedier vga card you could be better with the on-board left alone.
You don t really need to disable the on-board manually unless Mantle is used as API in games like BF 4 or Thief.

What APU are you running ?!

Title: Re: looking to upgrade graphics on G1.Sniper A88X (rev. 3.0) with new card
Post by: Tiger on March 24, 2014, 02:42:05 am

AMD Dual Graphics may make sense for users who are constrained either by budget or power considerations. Adding a low-end discrete GPU to an APU-based system is how it works. Notice I wrote "low-end" discrete GPU. The Radeon R9 270X 2GB 256-Bit is hardly a "low-end" card. Dual graphics is the latest in hybrid graphics where weak integrated graphics is combined with a weak graphics card for not so weak graphics.

To answer your question, you have the wrong card for dual graphics. It won't work for that.

Title: Re: looking to upgrade graphics on G1.Sniper A88X (rev. 3.0) with new card
Post by: aarmel1 on March 24, 2014, 03:50:20 am

I am running a amd 3.9 dual core.

Ok so I am pretty much giving up on dual graphics and just get the best card I can in the 250$ range

Thanks again

Title: Re: looking to upgrade graphics on G1.Sniper A88X (rev. 3.0) with new card
Post by: Vezina on March 25, 2014, 11:40:19 pm

Is it a dual core or a quad?
If it s not a quad then maybe you should get an Athlon 750K/ 760K in there for that card.

The Mantle AMD API will make CPU-s less relevant in the future ,but still ,a quad is needed.

You will need something like a 4,7 Ghz for a dual core and even then you may see some drop outs.
For gaming a quad is recommended.

Just my opinion after playing around with AMD FX modules