So I've had my 290 for some time now, it's the 290 Vapor-X. I've been wanting to upgrade for some time now as well. I'm planning on selling my 290 and getting a 970. My budget for the 970 is £300. I'm planning on getting around £200 from the sale of the 290 and putting in £100 for a 970. So far I'm liking the Asus 970, is there anything better I should go for to get a better performance at the same/ lower price? I would also like the card to be quite.
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290 to a 970?
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Just out of interest, why?
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All the 970's are in punching distance of each other in performance, and all clock well and won't run hot regardless of what cooler etc. Go for the best price VS warranty imho.
Can get some 970's for around £250, worth having a look around for the most wallet friendly version.
Fair enough.
High temps might be down to case airflow, i have a Powercolor PCS+ 290 with runs at 68c max on a quiet fan profile at 1125/1400 clocks.
I run Mantle in BF4, at worst my FPS are in the mid 80's, Which is rare that it goes that low, at best 180 and averaging 120 with all Ultra IQ and 2x MSAA.
You should be at around 100fps in bf4.
And the vapor-x is one of the best coolers, it shouldn't be hot and loud.
Wait... How? Getting a 970 isnt gonna help you much if any at all unless your 290 is throttling big time.
Wont help for sure if you're getting low FPS because of a higher resolution than 1080.
If its tight case or something, yea get the 970.
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What your system specs. cpu ect?
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If you're not satisfied with the 290 then of course the 970's a good card to go for. Cool, quiet, fast & will just do what it says on the tin.
The Asus is a good looking card but personally i'd go with the Gigabyte G1
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-147-GI
The Asus is a good looking card but personally i'd go with the Gigabyte G1
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-147-GI
How do you plan on doing this when they are this price new?
Anyway, i wouldn't bother unless you are really conscious of heat/power consumption. A 970 will only be slightly faster.
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There's no way you would get £200 back from an 290 unless you sold to somebody who knew nothing about computers, and also no reason to swap to a GTX 970 other than for temperature reasons (if using reference 290) or unless you're a mega Nvidia fan boy.
I'd like to know what the rest of the system is and what res your gaming at. Also what drivers are you using and are you running it on mantle or dx11?
The card you have has a great cooler and is a more than capable card for bf4, unless there's something wrong with your setup or your on a high res I don't see why you wouldn't be getting well over 100fos on high settings.
The card you have has a great cooler and is a more than capable card for bf4, unless there's something wrong with your setup or your on a high res I don't see why you wouldn't be getting well over 100fos on high settings.
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I moved from a water cooled 290 that was clocked to 1250Mhz to a single 970 and then eventually to 970 SLI.
I had no regrets moving to the 970 from the 290 at all, more stable, faster in games, PhysX and of course native down sampling support.
I had no regrets moving to the 970 from the 290 at all, more stable, faster in games, PhysX and of course native down sampling support.
I went 980 and 970 and now back with a Tri-X 290 after selling my last one.
Basically at a cost of ~£100+, you better get some of these:
Its been shown in countless benchmarks, gaming and 3dmark. That these cards are almost exactly the same... Only the 970 has the advantage of clocking well out of the box on air.
Even I in this thread gave OP an unbiased recommendation.
Yeah, it's getting silly now, if you are having a specific problem then fair enough, but there is next to nothing performance wise from a 290/780 up to the top when you are actually playing games.
Same thing happened with 79 series when 6 series launched and looked what happened there.
Same thing happened with 79 series when 6 series launched and looked what happened there.