Best bang for my £'s from a R290?

[humbug]

I don't provide anything for people who want to engage in self-delusion.

Pot - Kettle, another one with an anxiety driven wish list, you're the one stating facts that don't exist.

You don't have one shred of actual evidence to accompany your statements of facts, it doesn't exist, the only evidence we do have at this point is that Zen is at least as fast thread for thread clock for clock as Broadwell.
Not that a Blender and AToS benchmarks are enough to draw any conclusionary facts about its performance.

 

[maonayze]

Thanks all, very helpful so far.

I am presuming (maybe wrongly?) that a CPU upgrade would be a decent idea anyway, this chipset seems pretty old now? However it seems wise to see what the new AMD and Intel offerings are like once they come out as they don't seem far away.

The less than 60fps gameplay on decent settings at 1440p is starting to get frustrating but it would seem holding out a few more months is probably the smart move.

+1

There's no penalty for waiting and while you are waiting your cash pot is only going to grow. Wait a few months then get all the info on the new products.

I myself do the same thing as I usually keep a build for approx 4 years (GFX Cards 2 years). I was waiting for Zen and then as luck would have it my mobo died and I couldn't wait 4+ months for Zen without a machine. Hence the new parts in my Spec.

I am still looking forward to Zen though, as my lad will be in need of an upgrade sometime next year and I will pass my Fury onto him and by then we will know all about AMD/RTG's Vega and any other Nvidia offerings (1080Ti etc..).

 

[melmac]

Thanks all, very helpful so far.

I am presuming (maybe wrongly?) that a CPU upgrade would be a decent idea anyway, this chipset seems pretty old now? However it seems wise to see what the new AMD and Intel offerings are like once they come out as they don't seem far away.

The less than 60fps gameplay on decent settings at 1440p is starting to get frustrating but it would seem holding out a few more months is probably the smart move.

I know people will say there is always something new around the corner, but, Both Intel and AMD are making the first major changes in their CPU's lineups.

It's frustrating waiting. But I definitely think it's worth it this time. It's what I am doing anyway. Even though I did have a moment of weakness and bought the 1070!!

 

[WiZZyWiGG]

Yeah, I do hate the 'wait for the new things to come'.. there is always new things, I just want some new shiny stuff damn it!

It does seem in this instance though it makes sense.

Thanks all, I will resist the 1070 I had my eye on for now!

 

[Tacitus]

Yeah, I do hate the 'wait for the new things to come'.. there is always new things, I just want some new shiny stuff damn it!

It does seem in this instance though it makes sense.

Thanks all, I will resist the 1070 I had my eye on for now!

If you're getting a new GPU soon anyway you may as well through caution to the wind and shove +50% power and +200 mV into the card and see what you can hit on the core, if you're not already doing so.

I've got the Vapour-X 290x and at those voltage/power settings it will sit quite happily at 1275 core 1700 memory, which is obviously a massive bump in performance. The 290xs seem like tough things and I imagine it will be fine for daily use, though I personally scale things back to +100mV and run at 1150/1650.