Little help please ... E8500 with Radeon 7870?

I'm looking to upgrade my graphics cards from 2x5770 in crossfire to a 7870 and or possibly 2 of them in crossfire. My Mother board is designed for crossfire by gigabyte, I think I have a great build overall (for its age), but looking to stretch it as far as I can without having to spend money building a new computer at the moment.

My specs on the PC are as follows: E8500 overclocked to 4GHZ, 8GB RAM 1066Mhz clocked down to 1000 to have 1:1 ratio with the FSB of the CPU (again any mistakes on my part please forgive) 2x5770 in crossfire - system stays pretty cool. The PC has its hicups once in a while, while playing games....that may just be because I'm running two different videocards made by diff manufactuerers....:P

I'm havnt been keeping up with the whole computer hardware scene and looking for some input on any issue I may run into or if its even worth upgrading the video cards running an OC E8500....

Thanks in advanced!

e8500 is too large of a bottleneck for any new gpuJigglyWiggly_

I'm looking to upgrade my graphics cards from 2x5770 in crossfire to a 7870 and or possibly 2 of them in crossfire. My Mother board is designed for crossfire by gigabyte, I think I have a great build overall (for its age), but looking to stretch it as far as I can without having to spend money building a new computer at the moment.

My specs on the PC are as follows: E8500 overclocked to 4GHZ, 8GB RAM 1066Mhz clocked down to 1000 to have 1:1 ratio with the FSB of the CPU (again any mistakes on my part please forgive) 2x5770 in crossfire - system stays pretty cool. The PC has its hicups once in a while, while playing games....that may just be because I'm running two different videocards made by diff manufactuerers....:P

I'm havnt been keeping up with the whole computer hardware scene and looking for some input on any issue I may run into or if its even worth upgrading the video cards running an OC E8500....

Thanks in advanced!

Cujo31

Don't bother.

With that setup I'd change CPU/MB/RAM first, then GPU. Or if it's a good mobo get a used C2Q and overclock the sh*t out of it. E8xx is definitely a bottleneck for 7870.

depends on the game if the E8500 would be a bottleneck or not , if a game only uses 1-2 cores then it shouldnt be an issue with a 7870, however the majority of newer games make use of quads and those game would see a cpu limiting factor. Also running two 5770's is more of a bottleneck then a single 7870.