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Please be patient and forgive me..... Choosing a graphic card.

Fulax said:
If you'll only be using one card, you don't need 750w (unless that one card is a 7990). It is much easier to find a 140-160mm PSU around 500-650w than it is at higher wattages. Do you have a budget for PSU and GPU combined?
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As I'm only looking at one card this time, I'm not overly concerned about budget (within reason!) so around the same total budget for one card and a new PSU - £480. Obviously lower would be better.

The PSU can be had for £100 (possibly less if I switch to 650W) leaving a fair chunk for a better card.

pandem0nium - I had the exact same target as yourself; 8350 at 5MHz. While I could achieve this, it never seemed entirely stable. May just be that I have a poor example. As the 9590 is presumably tested at higher frequencies than the 8350, I'm hoping to have better luck with it.
 
Uziel Gal said:
As I'm only looking at one card this time, I'm not overly concerned about budget (within reason!) so around the same total budget for one card and a new PSU - £480. Obviously lower would be better.

The PSU can be had for £100 (possibly less if I switch to 650W) leaving a fair chunk for a better card.
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YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 290 Pre-Flashed to R290X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £379.99
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £367.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £319.99
Total : £1,077.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).



The 780 is available at that price today only.
 
Uziel Gal said:
As I'm only looking at one card this time, I'm not overly concerned about budget (within reason!) so around the same total budget for one card and a new PSU - £480. Obviously lower would be better.

The PSU can be had for £100 (possibly less if I switch to 650W) leaving a fair chunk for a better card.

pandem0nium - I had the exact same target as yourself; 8350 at 5MHz. While I could achieve this, it never seemed entirely stable. May just be that I have a poor example. As the 9590 is presumably tested at higher frequencies than the 8350, I'm hoping to have better luck with it.
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In the most positive way possible, I don't think a H80i will cut it for 5ghz.
5 prime stable was not a walk in the park for me, and required extra volts across the board, targeted cooling on the VRMs, and pushed the H100 to the limits of what it's capable of. that's a 240mm radiator with 4 fans in push-pull, where the H80i is a 120mm (although thicker) rad with 2 fans in push-pull.

I do think it would be a waste, but if you do go for it, please post the results up in the CPU forum.
 
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