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***Powercolor PCS+ R9 290 Mini Review***
- Thread starter humbug
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In what?
All the games tested and the latency times shown.
Good review humbug, the card has a nice cooler. Very reminiscent of the gigabyte wf cooler. Good mantle figures in bf4 too.
Thanks. Yes i though that too, it does look a lot like the Gigabyte WF Cooler.
I take it your able to max bf4 now, iirc your at 1920x1080. 1920x1200 here, on shanghai on max settings i do drop into the 50's sometimes, ive found it to be the most demanding map. Dont like those minimums tbh, averages are good at 90+fps. Bf4 is a game i play an awful lot of hence why i bench it most, the latest nv betas have helped a good bit with minimums, but i think the game engine itself causes a few issues for owners of both nv and amd cards.
+1
Yes, i have it on Ultra Preset with Mantle now, Min FPS at worst are 60+ and i think thats GPU bound.
I find the game very frustrating mate, my rig is capable of running it maxed with a single 780. However ill be adding a second soon, has to be another gigabyte wf though. A reference card wouldnt look right in my case, the interior decorator/designer coming out in me lol.
I find the game very frustrating mate, my rig is capable of running it maxed with a single 780. However ill be adding a second soon, has to be another gigabyte wf though. A reference card wouldnt look right in my case, the interior decorator/designer coming out in me lol.
I haven't played it to be fair, but having read around it would appear that it taxes systems quite 'unfairly'.
I am thinking about looking into something new for multi-player. God knows how many hours I've sunk into CS:S (steam doesn't).
I might look into something like a space game, or even an rpg...
I haven't played it, though I am thinking about looking into something new for multi-player. God knows how many hours I've sunk into CS:S (steam doesn't).
I might look into something like a space game, or even an rpg...
I used to like Space games, i'm a SCi-Fi fan, its hard to find a good space game these days. Star Conflict is ok but pay to win. far too often you get shot down in a second by someone so far way you can't even see him because he spent $200 on unlocks.
EVE is OK but i find that a bit to complicated.
I'm playing the latest Star Trek Game on and off, but that has horrible third person controls, enough to kill the Game Play.
Its all a bit sad for SCi-Fi.
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Yeah, I'll have to educate myself about the space genre first before I get any pinkies wet. I did buy Eve on a whim many moons ago, though on reflection I feel reluctant to play something that has a monthly subscription. The steam sale lured me in...
Yeah, I'll have to educate myself about the space genre first before I get any pinkies wet. I did buy Eve on a whim many moons ago, though on reflection I feel reluctant to play something that has a monthly subscription. The steam sale lured me in...
From what i have seen on EVE it looks like it could be an awesome Game if you can get into it, i couldn't. and yeah the monthly subscription is part of the reason, i don't like the idea of having to keep paying to access your game.
Tbh guys, the game i play the mosxt is tiger woods online, a 780 gtx is overkill lol. I just love golf games. I do play a lot of bf3/4 but on the onboard gpu would probably run it fine, though i keep it disabled as my haswell cpu is an extremely hot running chip. It needs scalping and pasted with clu/pro on the chip itself. Extremely fast chip though.
Thats an idea, i used to love that game on the PSX / PS2.
I seen in an earlier post you were considering an upgrade, my advice. 4770k and a mobo that offers both xfire and sli. Always leave your options open on the multi gpu front. I made the mistake one time of buying a p5q deluxe, great clocking board for s775 quads, but xfire only. At that time xfire was in it's infancy and a bit buggy. I had to move to x58 which thankfully offered both xfire and sli at full x16 per slot, (still have a bloomfield setup) but it is very slow compared to the haswell setup.
Out of those, id go for the ib 3770k setup, yes it will run a bit hotter. But a 3770k @4,5ghz is equivalent to a 26/700k at 4.8ghz, (owned both 3570k and 3770k here) prior to the 4770k in sig. Great chips if you decide to go xfire, mantle will do away with some bottlenecks on i5 cpus even with xfgire/sli, but personally i would reccomend an i7 everytime.I'm looking for a Sandy or Ivy i7 setup.
I'm happy with either one, i'm on an AMD CPU for Christ Sake
It depends on cost, i want it in the shorter term and i can't afford that much in the short term.