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Worth the upgarde to this graphics card ?

baz178

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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

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



(Is the Graphics Card worth upgrading to a)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-133-GI
 
The option which would give the most performance would also be the best value option, which is to add another 280x. However, I think you might need a slightly beefier psu for that. Perhaps someone can confirm this?

It's shame they don't sell the 7990 anymore; that was a truly cracking deal.
 
arc@css said:
The option which would give the most performance would also be the best value option, which is to add another 280x. However, I think you might need a slightly beefier psu for that. Perhaps someone can confirm this?

It's shame they don't sell the 7990 anymore; that was a truly cracking deal.
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Don't think my motherboard would do crossfire, so its going to have to be a new graphics card.
 
Well, in that case, this leaves the R290 / 290x, or the GTX780 / GTX780ti. I'm not certain on this, but I think Nvidia recommend a minimum of 600w for the 780 and 780ti, though the amount listed is always exaggerated a little, so you might be ok there.

I'm not sure about the power requirements for the 290 or 290x, though I doubt it'll be much different.

Obviously, regarding the 290x / 780ti, you'll pay a premium for not much extra performance over their siblings.
 
arc@css said:
Well, in that case, this leaves the R290 / 290x, or the GTX780 / GTX780ti. I'm not certain on this, but I think Nvidia recommend a minimum of 600w for the 780 and 780ti, though the amount listed is always exaggerated a little, so you might be ok there.

I'm not sure about the power requirements for the 290 or 290x, though I doubt it'll be much different.

Obviously, regarding the 290x / 780ti, you'll pay a premium for not much extra performance over their siblings.
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thanks, if anybody can shed abit more information on the power suppley, that would be extremely welcome ?
 
baz178 said:
thanks, if anybody can shed abit more information on the power suppley, that would be extremely welcome ?
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550W for 280x crossfire is asking for trouble, not even sure that would cover the load, plus as the PSU is only gold rated.

550W for a 290 would be fine though.
 
Actually, I've just remembered that it might not be that bad a thing that you can't crossfire as, ideally, to crossfire / sli two cards, you'd be better of with a cpu that can do hyperthreading (2600k / 2700k / 3770k / 4770k). There'd still be a benefit all right, but not maximum efficiency.
 
arc@css said:
Actually, I've just remembered that it might not be that bad a thing that you can't crossfire as, ideally, to crossfire / sli to cards, you'd be better of with a cpu that can do hyperthreading (2600k / 2700k / 3770k / 4770k). There'd still be a benefit all right, but not maximum efficiency.
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Yep the i7's definitely help if you're going multi-GPU.
 
GefGz said:
550W for 280x crossfire is asking for trouble, not even sure that would cover the load, plus as the PSU is only gold rated.

550W for a 290 would be fine though.
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Thanks.

So if I got the Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) that would fit my case and I wouldn't have to change my power supply ?
 
Gigabyte recommend 600W minimum for that card. Now I know they are cautious.....but so am I and I think your 550W, though a quality brand wont leave much spare. Personally I'd prefer a bit more. :)
 
I like a little headroom too, but I think he should be ok if he doesn't get heavily into overclocking. At least we can take comfort in knowing that he has a seasonic psu. :)
 
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arc@css said:
Yes, I would think you'll be ok, but don't push the power consumption anymore. ;)
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I'm running the Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Battlefield 4 PC Game which it says 600w. So I should be sound
 
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