Okay, like the title says i need help with picking a graphics card/cards for my first ever Rig.
First off i have been mostly a console gamer, then i got gaming on a pc, but! Before you start celebrating i bought a laptop (boo laptop gaming)
AMD A10, 2 gig graphics, 1 gig 7770m crosfired with onboard graphics and 8 gig ram. That is what i currently have and my friend asked me what i got on fire-strike, so i checked and it was bad, i got a score of 1082, so there's some background for you (im also in Australia).
The soon to be Rig as i want to get more into gaming i need a better system so i have listed up what i think to be a decent rig as far as my budget can stretch roughy $1400 ish
ASRock Z87-PRO4 Motherboard $139.00
Intel Core i5 4570 $229.00
G.Skill Ripjaws X F3-2400C11D-8GXM (2x4GB) DDR3 $105.00
SilverStone Strider Plus 1000W ST1000-P Modular PSU 189.00
Western Digital WD Blue 1TB $69.00
Samsung 840 EVO Series 120GB SSD $109.00
Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X OC 4GB $299.00
Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X OC 4GB $299.00
Total cost = $1398 + Still need a Case and some Cooling
So Taking into account everything with out the GPU's i have $600 ish to get GPS/GPU's and i WILL be using 3 screens!!!!!!! (because i played titainfall and WoW in trip screen and its so good it haunts me)
I spent alot of time looking at GPU's and benchmarks and so on i was originally going to get a R9 280x 3GB $399.00 but my friend with a GTX 780 ti impressed me and i started looking at the Gigabyte Radeon R9 290X 4GB OC Windforce $700.00 (a bit out of my price range), i then stumbled upon the R9 270X 2GB and thought, thats nice and cheap, i wonder what its like Crossfired. well i started looking at the results of some people who benchmarked them crossfire and was surprised to find out they do well.
Out of the box (depending on CPU and RAM) the R9 290x will score around 6700 - 7500 on firestrike and when overclocked they get 9000 - 10,000, the R9 270X single card gets 4000 - 4500 points and overclocked can get 5000 - 5500.
(Thanks for reading this far its almost over =P )
then i found this
http://forums.vr-zone.com/hardware-depot/2956330-gigabyte-r9-270x-oc-2gd-single-cross-fire.html
After reading his review my thought process was something like, $700.00 will get me a 290x 3GB that will probable max out at 9000 - 10,000, (BUT i cant afford a 290x) so i can get 2 of the 270x 4GB that will give me a total of 6 usable GB while crossfire and can score up to 9000 - 10,000 but is crossfire going to make life hard, should the choice be 1 card as the option then is a Gigabyte GTX 780 OC 3GB $600.00, out of the box it gets 7500 - 8000 but overclocking wont see you much past 9000..
MY QUESTION FOR YOU, can you please give me some suggestions, pros and cons and/or and alternative (im not limeted to AMD i just think they have some good value for money)
First off i have been mostly a console gamer, then i got gaming on a pc, but! Before you start celebrating i bought a laptop (boo laptop gaming)
AMD A10, 2 gig graphics, 1 gig 7770m crosfired with onboard graphics and 8 gig ram. That is what i currently have and my friend asked me what i got on fire-strike, so i checked and it was bad, i got a score of 1082, so there's some background for you (im also in Australia).
The soon to be Rig as i want to get more into gaming i need a better system so i have listed up what i think to be a decent rig as far as my budget can stretch roughy $1400 ish
ASRock Z87-PRO4 Motherboard $139.00
Intel Core i5 4570 $229.00
G.Skill Ripjaws X F3-2400C11D-8GXM (2x4GB) DDR3 $105.00
SilverStone Strider Plus 1000W ST1000-P Modular PSU 189.00
Western Digital WD Blue 1TB $69.00
Samsung 840 EVO Series 120GB SSD $109.00
Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X OC 4GB $299.00
Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X OC 4GB $299.00
Total cost = $1398 + Still need a Case and some Cooling
So Taking into account everything with out the GPU's i have $600 ish to get GPS/GPU's and i WILL be using 3 screens!!!!!!! (because i played titainfall and WoW in trip screen and its so good it haunts me)
I spent alot of time looking at GPU's and benchmarks and so on i was originally going to get a R9 280x 3GB $399.00 but my friend with a GTX 780 ti impressed me and i started looking at the Gigabyte Radeon R9 290X 4GB OC Windforce $700.00 (a bit out of my price range), i then stumbled upon the R9 270X 2GB and thought, thats nice and cheap, i wonder what its like Crossfired. well i started looking at the results of some people who benchmarked them crossfire and was surprised to find out they do well.
Out of the box (depending on CPU and RAM) the R9 290x will score around 6700 - 7500 on firestrike and when overclocked they get 9000 - 10,000, the R9 270X single card gets 4000 - 4500 points and overclocked can get 5000 - 5500.
(Thanks for reading this far its almost over =P )
then i found this
http://forums.vr-zone.com/hardware-depot/2956330-gigabyte-r9-270x-oc-2gd-single-cross-fire.html
After reading his review my thought process was something like, $700.00 will get me a 290x 3GB that will probable max out at 9000 - 10,000, (BUT i cant afford a 290x) so i can get 2 of the 270x 4GB that will give me a total of 6 usable GB while crossfire and can score up to 9000 - 10,000 but is crossfire going to make life hard, should the choice be 1 card as the option then is a Gigabyte GTX 780 OC 3GB $600.00, out of the box it gets 7500 - 8000 but overclocking wont see you much past 9000..
MY QUESTION FOR YOU, can you please give me some suggestions, pros and cons and/or and alternative (im not limeted to AMD i just think they have some good value for money)
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