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Quick upgrade for 6870?

The performance chart is interesting, especially when comparing the 770 to the R9 280X.

I am playing DayZ quite a lot at the minute and the 770 is apparently better for battlefield 3. That might not bare too much significance though.

EDIT: So most people are suggesting a 3GB card does that leave only the R9 280X?
 
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wildest_jjk said:
The performance chart is interesting, especially when comparing the 770 to the R9 280X.

I am playing DayZ quite a lot at the minute and the 770 is apparently better for battlefield 3. That might not bare too much significance though.
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Problem is GTX770 is £250 on average and has 1GB less vram than the GTX280x; GTX280x on the other hand is around £200-£220 and has 1GB more vram and wider memory-bus/higher-memory bandwidth.

GTX770 might have a slight advantage in BF3, but 280x would be the one that has slight advantage for BF4.
 
I was a bit confiused as to why a 280 was 'a fair bit more' than a 760.... people getting the 280 and 280X mixed up would explain it!

A 280 over a 760 any day for me.
 
arc@css said:
You could better my efforts by sending him flowers. :D
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Haha, well thanks guys so much for all of the help.

I have taken a look, but now I have thought about it I think future proofing would be best for me at the moment. So looking at it like that, the R9 280X is the one to get compared to nvidias at a similar price due to the extra memory?

And if this is the case are there any other cheaper options to gigabyte? Or should I just take the plunge?

Thanks!!
 
humbug said:
For a 280X this is the best one http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-091-HS

For a 280 i would get this one http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-171-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1842

All of them are faster than the GTX 760, the 280X is at least as fast as the GTX 770

A few of us have already said 3GB and the wider bus on the 280/X would be better.
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Thanks, is that card not worse than the gigabyte? Looking at speeds anyway.

Cheers :)
 
wildest_jjk said:
Thanks, is that card not worse than the gigabyte? Looking at speeds anyway.

Cheers :)
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Out of the Box yes, they both overclock so by the time you have it what those number say mean nothing, whats more the HIS has a better chance of clocking higher than the Gigabyte, there just better cards IMO, and cheaper :)
 
humbug said:
Out of the Box yes, they both overclock so by the time you have it what those number say mean nothing, whats more the HIS has a better chance of clocking higher than the Gigabyte, there just better cards IMO, and cheaper :)
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Thanks very much and I appreciate that :)

Its definitely a tough choice but the difference should be huge anyway between my current GPU!!
 
Ok guys me again lol.

I have been looking at more expensive graphics cards but I'm not sure if it's a stupid idea or not. Is the GTX 780 or the R9 290 worth the money compared to the R9 280X which I am looking at getting?

My concern is I will end up having to purchase a new graphics card again when I upgrade my rig in a few months. This of course depends on the new graphics cards that are released. So again I guess it comes down to performance and future proofing.

Any help will be appreciated, thanks! :)
 
wildest_jjk said:
Ok guys me again lol.

I have been looking at more expensive graphics cards but I'm not sure if it's a stupid idea or not. Is the GTX 780 or the R9 290 worth the money compared to the R9 280X which I am looking at getting?

My concern is I will end up having to purchase a new graphics card again when I upgrade my rig in a few months. This of course depends on the new graphics cards that are released. So again I guess it comes down to performance and future proofing.

Any help will be appreciated, thanks! :)
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The 290 is 30% faster than the 280X, so it is worth it for future proofing.

This one Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB

Or this one Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB

The 780 is a slightly slower card for a lot more money, IMO not worth it.
 
humbug said:
The 290 is 30% faster than the 280X, so it is worth it for future proofing.

This one Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB

Or this one Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB

The 780 is a slightly slower card for a lot more money, IMO not worth it.
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Many thanks for the response.

I am certainly tempted as I think it would probably hold its value for longer as well, should i want to change further down the line.

I have heard there were problems with some of these in terms of cooling, noise etc. Would the two you have suggested be OK for these things?

Thanks again :)
 
Also is there an advantage to getting the X versions?

I'm worried that the 280X might be better for future proofing compared to the standard 290. But I do not know the differences in X versions.

Thanks
 
wildest_jjk said:
Many thanks for the response.

I am certainly tempted as I think it would probably hold its value for longer as well, should i want to change further down the line.

I have heard there were problems with some of these in terms of cooling, noise etc. Would the two you have suggested be OK for these things?

Thanks again :)
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I have one of the two, the other is just as good, see sig.

Cooling problems are only with reference 290, frankley the refrence cooler on those just isn't much good, Custom cooled one are as good as any.

The only other thing is if you have one with Elpida Memory IC's (like i do) overclocking the vRam to high can result in those much talked about Black Screens, its just a case of finding the overclock limit on them and then not going over that.

They are a very good card.
 
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