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spec me a grpahics card

baz178

baz178

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Hey

The Member stulid who did a brilliant job last week of specing me a computer up, which I built last Saturday and I love.

But now my brother wants a new graphics card now after seeing mine :p

So what ive decided is to give him mine and for me to buy another more powerful one with the sale of my imac 2012 i5. ;)

which would you recommend which is powerfuler than mine, and that I would notice a difference and work on my computer ?

My spec of computer is

Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Battlefield 4 PC Game £241.66

Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £159.99 1

IIyama Prolite E2473HS 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £108.29

MSI Z87I Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ITX Motherboard £87.49

Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £62.49

Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £59.99 1 £59.99
Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £58.29

BitFenix Prodigy 'Yang' Mini-ITX Cube Case - Black/White £58.29

TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £49.99

Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £36.66

OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.16

Corsair Hydro H90 140mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
 
The gigabytes have UK RMA and offer the quietest cooler on the market, in the shape of the windforce..

I have an msi gpu myself and it is great though at 60%+ fan speed it gets a bit noisey.. I really should turn down my OC on it I guess. :)
 
Doomedspeed said:
The gigabytes have UK RMA and offer the quietest cooler on the market, in the shape of the windforce..

I have an msi gpu myself and it is great though at 60%+ fan speed it gets a bit noisey.. I really should turn down my OC on it I guess. :)
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Got both a wf 780 here and an msi tf 650ti. Personally i find both coolers start to get loud above 60%. But i only ever go above that when setting fan speed manually for benchmarking. Gigabytes uk rma is a very reassuring thing though.
 
so with the grpahics card I have now, would I notice a big difference with the Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card ? and is it worth upgrading to ?
 
and will there be enough power with the Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply for the new graphics card ?
 
Doomedspeed said:
The gigabytes have UK RMA and offer the quietest cooler on the market, in the shape of the windforce..

I have an msi gpu myself and it is great though at 60%+ fan speed it gets a bit noisey.. I really should turn down my OC on it I guess. :)
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The MSI's are definitely quieter this gen.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
It will be fine.
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and will I notice the difference in performance from the current card I have now ? ie Radeon R9 280x 3072mb GDDR5 and the one I want in the Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD)
 
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