Which card is better of these two Vega 64 ones - Gigabyte OC or PowerColor Red Devil ?

[TheSwede]

Hey all,

I am thinking getting one of the Vega 64 cards that OcUK has a deal on presently. It seems the PowerColor is more popular then the Gigabyte but not had any experience with PowerColor so thought I ask what you experts thinks ?? Also read in the Vega 64 thread the Gigabyte card seem to be a bit loud out of the box and you might need to tinker with it to get it running quietly if I understood it right ??

Plus there is another question in regards to multiple monitors. My setup is a 34'' 3440 x 1400 main monitor with 2 Dell 1920 x 1200 monitors on the side. The Dell monitors don't support HDMI but I have a HDMI to DVI-d cable I can use on one of them. Would that matter for normal day uses and watching twitch, youtube or films if it is HDMI or DP ?? Yes, I am rather clueless so hence asking.

Thank you for taking the time to read and, hopefully, answer if you can.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Id say the PowerColor out of those 2x, as the Gigabytes got a weak cooler from what ive read, so it runs hot/loud.

Can't help on the multiple monitor front.

 

[TheSwede]

Id say the PowerColor out of those 2x, as the Gigabytes got a weak cooler from what ive read, so it runs hot/loud.

Can't help on the multiple monitor front.

Thanks, I did bite the bullet for the PowerColor after having talked with OcUK. Plus I remembered that I have a DP switch to, so can use that one for the two dell screens and have the UW connected directly to the card. Used that before for 3 monitors, all dells, before I got the UW, and works fine. Although the chap I spoke too did say wouldn't be a problem to use a HDMI to DVI-D cable if I so wished.

 

[Panos]

Hey all,

I am thinking getting one of the Vega 64 cards that OcUK has a deal on presently. It seems the PowerColor is more popular then the Gigabyte but not had any experience with PowerColor so thought I ask what you experts thinks ?? Also read in the Vega 64 thread the Gigabyte card seem to be a bit loud out of the box and you might need to tinker with it to get it running quietly if I understood it right ??

Plus there is another question in regards to multiple monitors. My setup is a 34'' 3440 x 1400 main monitor with 2 Dell 1920 x 1200 monitors on the side. The Dell monitors don't support HDMI but I have a HDMI to DVI-d cable I can use on one of them. Would that matter for normal day uses and watching twitch, youtube or films if it is HDMI or DP ?? Yes, I am rather clueless so hence asking.

Thank you for taking the time to read and, hopefully, answer if you can.

Powercolor is the better product. Also Devil & Nitro+ are the best V64s hands down. Consider Sapphire and Powercolor are the EVGA and Zotac of the AMD GPUs.
In addition you support a pretty damn good job those two companies are doing, and not half a**ed job to the likes of Gigabyte and Asus, which V64s are in par just to the reference or even worse (Asus).
Hell Powecolor has made some impressive ATI & AMD cards over the years, who forgot the 5850 and 5870 PCS+, it put shame to all other of it's kind and gave a beating to it's contemporary NVidia ones, while it had superb price.

As for connecting the monitors, there won't be an issue. Make sure it doesn't pick them for eyefinity though

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Thanks, I did bite the bullet for the PowerColor after having talked with OcUK. Plus I remembered that I have a DP switch to, so can use that one for the two dell screens and have the UW connected directly to the card. Used that before for 3 monitors, all dells, before I got the UW, and works fine. Although the chap I spoke too did say wouldn't be a problem to use a HDMI to DVI-D cable if I so wished.

Good stuff, enjoy!