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AMD COMBAT CRATES
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Bad GPU fans, bad reaction to issues, wouldn't touch personally.
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Not a fan of MSI motherboards, had a poor platinum one once which cost a fortune at the time. Had a GPU that was fine though. 
If I wanted 290X performance in a box, I'd try a medieval dig site first!
The 290 is still very competitive. You could say it's also more advanced too.
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I have mine still, its 4 yr old and beats a rx 580 at mining. nVidia wise only a 1070 or better pulls away from it. Certainly not as bad as some people are portraying it!
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I have mine still, its 4 yr old and beats a rx 580 at mining. nVidia wise only a 1070 or better pulls away from it. Certainly not as bad as some people are portraying it!
Likewise.
It has been a solid card even after all these years. Maxes out far cry 5 and gets a solid 60+ fps @ 1080p 95% of the time. The only cards worthwhile upgrading to are the likes of a 980ti/1070, 1080/ti, vega 56/64, so it certainly isn't a bad GPU considering that it is a 4/5 year old GPU now
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I found my GTX 980s to perform better than my 290Xs, at least in the games that I play.
I mean I wouldn't have bought 980s to replace them but since I had them already I decided to use the 980s and sell the 290Xs (as opposed to the other way around).
Currently debating whether to swap 980 SLI for a single Fury X (is mGPU support getting worse or is it me?)
I don't see AMD/MSI have much choice though, what are they gonna do, put a Vega card in there? That'd drive the price right up. Maybe it'd be nice to have different levels of crate and have a 1700X/1800X CPU with a Vega 56 or 64 and maybe even an X370 to go high end. You'd expect a high end crate to be more expensive. But I doubt that's really the target audience for these crates.
With a Freesync monitor a RX580 is probably good enough for most. You're not gonna be doing 4K and even at lower resolution will probably being aiming for 60fps, but if you're looking for a budget system that's not unreasonable is it?
I mean I wouldn't have bought 980s to replace them but since I had them already I decided to use the 980s and sell the 290Xs (as opposed to the other way around).
Currently debating whether to swap 980 SLI for a single Fury X (is mGPU support getting worse or is it me?)
I don't see AMD/MSI have much choice though, what are they gonna do, put a Vega card in there? That'd drive the price right up. Maybe it'd be nice to have different levels of crate and have a 1700X/1800X CPU with a Vega 56 or 64 and maybe even an X370 to go high end. You'd expect a high end crate to be more expensive. But I doubt that's really the target audience for these crates.
With a Freesync monitor a RX580 is probably good enough for most. You're not gonna be doing 4K and even at lower resolution will probably being aiming for 60fps, but if you're looking for a budget system that's not unreasonable is it?
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I think I was more so dissapointed in the advances over the four years whilst the prices have crept up. I would expect a card thats 2+ years newer to be substantially better if I was paying around 20% more than I originally did. So a 290x for £300 at the time even if you factor in any inflation angle brings you to the 580. You have to jump to a vega to get that performance jump which is over £600.
In this example upgrading is notching up a band from the pricing structure that was 2013. No longer is £3-400 the high end its for some reason acceptable to push it into over £500, I guess if you have not sampled 1440 or 4k gaming your better off not knowing what your missing .
In this example upgrading is notching up a band from the pricing structure that was 2013. No longer is £3-400 the high end its for some reason acceptable to push it into over £500, I guess if you have not sampled 1440 or 4k gaming your better off not knowing what your missing
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