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Single 290 for a ROG Swift?

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Found out today I'm getting a ROG Swift from my wife for xmas. I'm still using the rig in my sig, which has an MSI R9 290 in it as the only GPU.

Should that be enough for this beast? I'll probably buy myself a nice new juice GPU for my birthday in March, probably an Nvidia so I can play with Gsync, but will this 290 handle it in the mean time?

I mostly play Planetside 2, but occasionally other titles too.
 
I ran my RoG with a 7990 for a while, when I sold the 7970 and before I bought my 980s. It was nice, I came from a 1600p 60hz monitor and this was my first stab at 120/144hz.

But, the single 980 (not too massively far off your 290 in performance) was a different world with gsync. Adding the 2nd was icing on the cake.

You will be seriously wanting a 970/980. I'd suggest selling the 290 for one as you should get a decent chunk for it and 970s are cheap.
 
I wouldn't hope for 144hz at max settings in crysis 3.

But with reasonable settings 100FPS is fairly easily achieve with a 780 at 1440p.
 
Cheers guys. Sorry for not responding earlier, but I had a small holiday for posting a video with grown up words in it :p

I'll give it a go and see how it goes, but I'm always going to have the absence of Gsync in the back of my mind.
 
Try not to fret and speculate about it. Fair do's seeking advice but awesomeness you've been bought it! My suggestion would be to rig it up and see how you go. You might be surprised, or even decide its not enough power but i can wait it out until 20nm nVidia. I would do that personally, and sink 500 odd notes into that rather than a 980. Your 290 will still do very well for the time being worst casing having to knock a couple settings down on the more demanding titles. Ride it out and gives you some extra months to save up for Titan II :p
 
If you decide to wait for big maxwell, which is probably a good idea, I'd still consider selling your 290, as you should be able to get ~£170-180 for it, and buying a 970.

For any other situation it would seem like a silly plan as performance won't improve, but GSync and the ability to force 144hz in drivers is worth it.

When I got my first 980, I was coming from a 7970+7990 trifire setup, so lower overall performance, but using the RoG it was still like night and day due to GSync.
 
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