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RoBoT

RoBoT

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There are serious price concerns with current gfx cards, I'm lost, I don't know which one I want, which will best fill my needs, and get good value for money spent.

I currently have 2x MSI gtx 460's in SLI, what would be an upgrade but not cost the earth, and what would do what I need it to?

Gaming on old and new games like supreme commander 2 and forged alliance, Eve online, photoshop work, watching films, future 1440 res 27" monitor, possibly only 24" if the wife gets her say lol.
 
I would like to keep my budget quiet just now so to hear what people say about all cards as I could be persuaded to buy better if I like what's said, so for time being I want a card that can do the job and do it well, with some future proofing
 
Well, your GTX460's in SLI equate roughly to an overclocked GTX580, so I'd look to at least a 280x / GTX770. The AMD 270 / 270x cards are amazing value, but you won't see that much of an improvement over your current set up - though coming from a dual card arrangement, you might notice more benefit than I originally thought. :)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-162-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1982

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-178-GW&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1750

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-225-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1842


I've included some benchmarks to help you choose. I've selected the GTX660 (rough equivalent to your GTX460 SLI) :

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1039?vs=1043

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1039?vs=1041

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1039?vs=1037
 
As others have mentioned, if you do go for 1440p then a 290 or 780 would be best. If you remain at 1080p, then my suggestions still have value. :)
 
There are a few reviews about the 290 on here saying like a hair dryer or people un impressed with them.

Any one with them that can say anything about them?

The 270 4gig cards look good value for money, how do they compare to the more expensive cards?

The gets 780's look good too, but the price is quite high for some of these cards, are there any mid range cards that can show the big boys a thing or 2?
 
The 290s with non-reference coolers are much quieter than the original reference cooler.

A 290 (non-X) would be my choice for 1440p if I was putting my money down.

A 4GB 270 is a waste of time, the extra RAM isn't going to give you appreciable gains over the standard version. Plus a 270 wouldn't give you decent performance at 1440p.
 
How does the 290 compare to 780?

Photoshop utilises the cuda in nvidia, how would the 290 compare to that?
 
RoBoT said:
How does the 290 compare to 780?

Photoshop utilises the cuda in nvidia, how would the 290 compare to that?
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The 290 (none reference) is no better or worse than the 780, i use OpenCL in PS CS6, older versions don't have OpenCL and i don't know how it compares to CUDA.
 
RoBoT said:
So how does open cl cope with cs6? And how fast/good is it please?
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Yeah. seems ok to me. as good or better than CUDA? i have no idea
I will be back home late tomorrow, if you have some tests in mind i'm happy to run them.
 
For what you want to do i'd suggest a gtx780 or a amd 290 either card will do what you want and will out perform a 4GB 770
 
agree with others the choice is 290 or 780, what ever one you buy you cant go far wrong, as for ref 290 noise i have one and cant see what all the fuss is about but then what may seem loud to some may be nothing to others
 
RoBoT said:
I would like to keep my budget quiet just now so to hear what people say about all cards as I could be persuaded to buy better if I like what's said, so for time being I want a card that can do the job and do it well, with some future proofing
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Well what you can get is all dependent on budget. Good cases can be made to buy any card in the spectrum so if you want help you really need to state a budget.
 
I can push to 600 max but that has to include an ips pro monitor, be it 24" 1080p or 27" 1400p, has to be top notch colour reproduction for photography so adobe colour as close as possible.

The challenge is set quote me happy lol
The only games I play are RTS (supreme commander / command and conquer style games), Final Fantasy style games, and eve online (multi client) so must be good for them too.
 
In the last 6 months I've had..

7950 Crossfire
2x R290's
7970 Crossfire
GTX 780
4Gb 270x Crossfire

And then finally this Sapphire R290 Tri-X....

I game at 2560x1440 and after playing and overclocking all the above cards the R290 is the best one by far.

GTX780 is close but the R290 is a little better while costing less.
 
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