PC build help. (I know many people have asked)

Ok, I'm just going to go for the R9... I just thought beamng had some issues with amd. and also if you see the benchmarks this thing has with direct x 11... they're horrible. but that might be able to fixed in a driver update right?

 

R9 cards eat a lot of power, I am running a GTX980Ti and that consumes under full load about 250W where as a similar priced R9 Fury X card consumes about 275W, I switched to Nvidia because well I wanted to try something new, the real power hungry card is the R0 295X2 that eats I am not joking 500W...but thats a dual processor card so go figure...


I have checked my results on GPUReview..

 

The idea that they'd "fix" a last gen card is hard to swallow.

 

Ok, if none of you object. I'm buying an Asus Radeon R9 290 4 GB

 

That is a very good card to buy I would watch out for the fan noise on it but it should do you well

 

Thanks, I'm going to wait till cyber monday to buy it, maybe it'll go down, also, where is this thing in stock, newegg doesn't have it restocked same with amazon. Also, I use very loud speakers when I play, not too worried about it.

 

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Always wait till around the Christmas period thats when the prices fall then get your parts trust me thats the best time to do it

 

Avoid AMD cards; bad performance with the "new" drivers.

nVidia cards have some good bang for their buck especially if you buy them used. Consider maybe a GTX 760 TI or 960; either with the ACX cooling. Anyone who says the fans are loud, I have no idea what you're on about, my 760 ACX unit runs totally silent.

 

I ran ATI/AMD cards for years before my brother got his GTX770 and it ran games better than my old XFX5770 but I went from that to a 980Ti and the performance gap is enormous! but enough about that okay...I will have people yelling at me for bringing that up AGAIN....

 

From that card to a 980TI yeah, I bet the performance boost was massive!

*Wants a 980*

 

I know I started off with a HD3870 then I got from my work a HD3870X2 then I got the HD5770 and finally I got my hands on the 980Ti and all the other cards before that couldnt hold a candle to it! it was 512, 1024, 1024 then finally 6144MB its an insane jump!

 

AMD HD3200 to a GT610 then my big jump was to a GTX 760Ti FTW

 

I can only imagine what that was like....for me I played games on the settings I use to run and then I was like with Euro Truck Simulator 2, Max EVERYTHING....then I saw the FPS figures at like 80 and then I found the nVidia controls and then I turned on superscaling and it was insane....it works about 40 to 60fps now but the game on the card is running at 4k but being downscaled to 1080p resolution because I run 1080p monitors

 

I went from an HD6670 to an R9 270 to a GTX 970. So no massive jumps there. Before that I played games on PS3, and before that on crappy PCs with iGPUs.

Anyway, on topic. The R9 290 is a really good card, just don't buy a reference or blower cooler, they produce the sound and heat levels of a jet engine. And make sure you have a good CPU cooler too, since open coolers will blow most of the hot air towards the CPU heatsink, and 275W is a lot of heat.

And, BTW, some R9 290's can be 'unlocked' to become functionally identical to a 290X. It involves flashing the BIOS, but if you know what you're doing it's not too hard, and you can always flash the stock BIOS back if it becomes unstable. I wouldn't recommend doing it unless you have experience with this kind of stuff though.

 

If you have good air flow I was using an Asus Shitbox micro sized pc case and it had crap airflow in it and now I am using a Fractal Design XL R2 and the temperatures are brilliantly cold inside well I am using liquid cooling on the core but my GPU is running at like 40 Degrees C and it doesnt get above 60 degrees C under load, for the games I have on it at the minute that is...its still to be pushed...I know that much...