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Originally Posted by Anais
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Originally Posted by YouR_DooM
FWIW only a small range of cards crossfire with an AMD APU. AFAIK no card crossfires with an Intel HD graphics.
Personally I would not build my system around a crossfire apu setup; but if the pieces you want are compatible anyway, you get a small boost out of it.
Thanks for the tips. Holy ****, pcpartspicker.com is awesome. It's been so long since I've built a PC that nothing like that existed at the time.
It does sound like, from what I've read, that it would be silly to worry about crossfiring an APU and GPU unless I was going higher-end and at that point, might as well just get dual GPUs.
For those interested, here's my "budget-ish" gaming PC I priced out for under $600 including Windows 8.1:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fX8xTW
I haven't bought anything yet. I am able to save money by buying both the CPU and motherboard from Microcenter (most of the stuff is from there), as the motherboard ends up to be free with the combo. It seems like a pretty solid board, too - one weakness is the lack of USB 3.0 headers, but it does have two USB 3.0 ports in the back. I then opted for a case without 3.0 ports because that would be a waste.
The Samsung HDD and optical drive are listed at $0 because I already have them on hand. That HDD will not be the primary drive - it is just coming out of another machine to be a photo HDD.
I went with a small SSD for the OS and maybe a couple key programs.
I posted the build on the pcpartspicker.com forum and have gotten one response so far, which was positive. I happened to stop by Microcenter today and asked a guy his thoughts and he said it looked solid for what I want it to do.