295x2 for £400?! great deal but i can only find the cheapest one on here for £499
if there is a £400 one ill have that to replace my 970 today!.
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970 x2 RMA now what?
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295x2 for £400?! great deal but i can only find the cheapest one on here for £499
if there is a £400 one ill have that to replace my 970 today!.
295x2 for £400?! great deal but i can only find the cheapest one on here for £499
if there is a £400 one ill have that to replace my 970 today!.
Think he's got that wrong, cheapest it's been is £499 iirc.
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295x2 for £400?! great deal but i can only find the cheapest one on here for £499
if there is a £400 one ill have that to replace my 970 today!.
Someone else said that and I was saying it was a great deal. Then they said they made a mistake and it was £499..
A couple of 980's would cost me my soul. I dont think i could purchase even oneo with my £300 budget lol
Nothing else to say. The 290x 8GB is the only choice at that price. You will not run out of memory for a long time with that one.
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Guys remember the 8GB 290X really shows the difference when you have at least two of them. If you look at any 290X 8GB review their is no real gain against the 4GB ones in most cases. It doesn't hurt resale vavalue though because 4GB is soon getting outdated.
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I was in the same predicament but pretty set on returning just the one 970 and holding onto one until the next gen cards and sell up then.
For the 290x 8gb to make sense you'd really need two of them and that comes with it's own issue like heat & power consumption. With 380x around the corner I don't think it's the best long term buy right now.
For the 290x 8gb to make sense you'd really need two of them and that comes with it's own issue like heat & power consumption. With 380x around the corner I don't think it's the best long term buy right now.
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I you have time and energy,sell your cards and get r9 290x 8gb.(should have good resell value)
R9 3xx is still big unknown,pricing on the launch day and performance???
R9 3xx is still big unknown,pricing on the launch day and performance???
Sorry to just jump in on this thread but since it's relevant it would be silly to start a new thread on the same subject.
If it were a choice of either 2 290x 8gb or 2 980's which would be the better option? To use the 290x's I'd need to buy a new power supply which does bring the price of both options closer together. They'd also be used to game at 3440x1440 if that helps.
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If it were a choice of either 2 290x 8gb or 2 980's which would be the better option? To use the 290x's I'd need to buy a new power supply which does bring the price of both options closer together. They'd also be used to game at 3440x1440 if that helps.
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Sigh, really don't know what to do. It was pretty simple before.. I would sell up and there would be a good bang for buck card out there like the 970 but without the issue it currently has and then wait abit before buying a second card to go SLI like I did with my 680's. Feel like I have to be stuck with my 680's till next gen but like some of you have said, the 300 series are a big unknown at the moment.. just have to wait abit as I don't think the 290X is a good option for me as it's not really a big jump from my 680's.
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I'd personally wait for the release of the 300 series from AMD, which looks to be about two months away. For the sake of hanging on in there with weaker graphics for a bit, you could potentially get a much more future proof system. Two months isn't so long to wait 
The thing is, literally nothing changed over that past week.
970s were launched, review sites were raving about how good they were, best price/performance, great in SLI, etc. People bought them, raving about how good they are, such great cards.
Suddenly somebody posts about the framebuffer issues, and then everybody's going "oh yeah, they stutter really badly, awful cards, unplayable on game X/Y". The same people who were telling everybody how good the 970s were earlier. Nothing changed, this wasn't even a problem that arose because of driver issues or something, it has literally always been there.
Shows how caught up people can get over hardware launches. My question is, since this 'issue' has been present since launch, why did none of the big review sites pick up on it? A whole bunch of them use Shadow of Mordor as a test game which is one of the cited problem ones, so why was nothing mentioned about stutter?
It suggests either review sites are lazy and not testing properly, they are being 'encouraged' to cover up/avoid talking negatively in reviews, or people are over-exaggerating the amount of stutter in the games.
There have been thread after thread with users complaining about stutter on the NV forum way before this came to light, but because most assume that it just a driver issue they wait, but now that they know its a hardware limitation that changes things and this issue came to light because of the stuttering in the first place.
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Late addition to the topic. Having tried majority of sub vendor cards the latest 290 that went in a machine (to replace a faulty msi 280x) was a sapphire Vapor X, the quality of the card was to be one of if not the best I've seen.
If you're considering going down the AMD route then seriously consider sapphire
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If you're considering going down the AMD route then seriously consider sapphire
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