Would a SAPPHIRE R9 280X improve my gaming pc?

[Eferas]

Hi everyone, let me start saying I'm not good when it comes to hardware and buildings PCs.

 

My current gaming PC was built by an old friend of mine, I bought all the pieces and then he came to my home and built it for me, he was very nice and I had lot of fun with this PC over the years, and it's still performing good! Never had a problem! I can play Skyrim Special Edition full modded, with every single textures replaced with 2k textures from mods, SMIM, lighting mods and all the stuff (except ENB) with variable FPS between 30 to 60 according to area. Also The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt performed good, almost all settings to ultra and with the same FPS, 30 to 60 according to area.

However other games I couldn't play at all, like Rise of the Tomb Raider, Batman Arkham Knight and Mafia III, too low frame rates for me even at medium settings.

So here's my question: I found an used SAPPHIRE R9 280X 3gb at less then 150€ at a gaming store, If I buy it can I have it mounted in parallel with my current SAPPHIRE R9 270X 4gb? Will I be able to play the other games this way? And get better performance on the old ones? Like reaching stable 60 fps on Skyrim SE? Here's my complete specs, thanks for reading. :smile:

CPU: Intel® Core i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz

GPU: AMD Radeon R9 270x 4gb

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (4+4)

Power Supply: Corsair 750 CX 750Watt Bronze

Mother Board: Asus Z97-K
Fan: Zalman CNPS11X Performa V-Shaped

Edited May 11, 2017 by Eferas

[Erik005]

A R9 280X would provide a little more fps.

 

You can't use it with your old card in the same system.

 

That 280X seems to be overpriced a GTX 1050TI preforms about the same, uses half the power and is cheaper.

 

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=3466&cmp%5B%5D=2702&cmp%5B%5D=3595

Edited May 11, 2017 by Erik005

[Eferas]

Thanks for your reply. So what card should I buy? The same old R9 270X, so that I have two? Or a totally new one?

[Erik005]

Thanks for your reply. So what card should I buy? The same old R9 270X, so that I have two? Or a totally new one?

 

A RX480/580 or RX470/570

 

I would not get a second 270X, crossfire is getting less supported.

Edited May 12, 2017 by Erik005

[Eferas]

Thanks for your advice. :)