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Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Questions/ £300 budget

Shampoo

Shampoo

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Hi

After the 970 debacle I just cannot get the feeling of "damaged goods" from my mind, so I'm going to sell my card and get something that has the full advertised 4GB. I was going towards the 980 but the pricing is quite frankly ridiculous for what is a modest step up from a 970 so I'm not going there.

I was looking at this card:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-344-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

My concern is that my PSU is 600 watt and this states that you need AT LEAST 600 watt. Am I going to have a problem running this card?

I had my eye on the £200 Powercolor model but what on earth is up with that 750 watt PSU requirement?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-166-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

I'm quite confused.:( If you guys could get me as close to 970 power levels or above at no more than 600 watt and no more than £300 you would be doing me an almighty favour. I'll be buying tomorrow or the day after so week-only deals are applicable. Thanks.
 
Just read in a review that the card does not support VGA analog even with the adapter. Gutted. Back to the drawing board in the search for a card.
 
:p

Monitor I have is simply too good to sacrifice unless the replacement was exceptional. Flat screen (Triniton) 1080 and above res and glorious image quality.
I'll need to find something else that has DVI-I support. I can't believe it's not in the 290. Just about everything Nvidia puts out has one.
 
:( Man, if nothing decent in the red camp is VGA, I'll have to go 980 which is a disaster.

I'm basically having to go from £199.99 for the Powercolor to £469.99 for the OCUK 980 (best components).

Why does the 970 have to have been gimped!!!
 
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Wrong resolution though. 1920x1200 doesn't look right with my screen. I use 2048x1536 for games and 1600x1200 for desktop.

It's cool. I'll just bite the bullet and pay for the Nvidia. It does what I need it to do at the res I need.
 
If you can afford a Samsung S34E790C, then you can do a hell of a lot better than a used memory gimped 970! :p

Don't disrespect the panel like that. :D
 
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