Final specs and thoughts for gaming build at £1200...

Doomedspeed said:
He has a point but as you CAN afford both you may aswell get both, the 4770k (i7) will help when titles start to ultilise multi-core technology. Its already starting to happen/.

The Reference 290's were noisey, the aftermarket 290, like the windforce are pretty quiet and cooler than the reference version a great choice of card.
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Still torn between i5-4670k or i7-4770k but from what you said if games are gonna start using multi-threading i'm thinking the 4770k the better option.


Please let me know what Reference and Aftermarket mean when it comes to components. heard this sop many times...
 
H3R013 said:
Still torn between i5-4670k or i7-4770k but from what you said if games are gonna start using multi-threading i'm thinking the 4770k the better option.
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Yeah, i agree.. 4770k is the way to go.


H3R013 said:
Please let me know what Reference and Aftermarket mean when it comes to components. heard this sop many times...
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My apologies.

Reference coolers are coolers which the manufacture release with the card, this is AMD or NVIDIA only..

The cooler for the 290 reference looks like this one:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290 "BF4 Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £329.99
Total : £339.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).




It has one small fan (which is very loud) and the cooling isn't all that great.


The card is then sent to partener companies to develop their own iterations of the card, which new coolers and some tweaked cooling and settings..

An example of this is this card by Gigabyte:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) £367.99
Total : £377.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).



See the different cooler design?

This is a tried and tested cooler design, which is near silent and cools the card much better. In some case the PCB itself may have been re-designed to offer better power regulation or overclocking ability.

Does this help? :)
 
ok i get yah :)

So reference cooler is kinda like a stock cooler released by the manufacturer of the card but that aint so good so the aftermarket stuff puts in a better cooler and tweaks the card for better performance and then theres upping the price :eek:

Seriously, toughest part of building your own rig - deciding on the parts !
 
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H3R013 said:
ok i get yah.

So reference cooler is kinda like a stock cooler released by the manufacturer of the card but that aint so good so the aftermarket stuff puts in a better cooler and tweaks the card for better performance, hence upping the price :eek:
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You got it. :)

Its like CPU coolers too, CPU's come with paperweights (my affectionate name for the stock cooler :)) in the box. But other manufactures make cooler to fit and cooler the CPU's too, these are normally much better but cost anywhere from £10-£100's depending.

but i digress...

People may disagree with this, but i think AMD pulled a 'fast one' releasing the 290/290x's with that stock cooler.. It was a relief to see the aftermarket ones turn up.
 
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