Hello,
I have a PC that I built Quite a while ago but is still spry. It's a:
core i7-950 3.6 Bloomfield LGA 1366 CPU
Asus P6x58D-E Motherboard
6 gigs of RAM
Seasonic 750 watt PSU
Noctua NH-D14 heat sink
I have an xfx 5970 that has been running 3 Samsung 2333sw 23"LCDs at 5760 X 1080 in Eyefinity quite nicely. But I think an upgrade is overdue so I'm looking for a little future proofing for the "next generation" games and see if I can get better performance with what I we have been playing. I still do some gaming (like Bioshock and Tomb Raider) but the gaming these days is mostly for my kids that are into new shooters, Rust and what ever comes our way.
If the frame rates are too low we have no trouble switching back to single screen but I'm shooting for Eyefinity. I've always been an AMD fanboy because I have a few PC's and I want to stick with one set of drivers for switching cards and troubleshooting. In my recent shopping I have read that SAPPHIRE has some of the best AMD cards around.
So I was reading about the TRI-X OC 100362-2SR Radeon R9 290 4GB @ $434 and the Toxic 100363TXSR Radeon R9 280X 3GB @ $380.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m7L-YAlM2M
And thinking that the TRI-X is very pricy (LOL) and both use a lot of power and I wonder if my 750 watt would handle it with all the hard drives and fans and stuff so I'm looking maybe to something like the 100363L Radeon R9 280X 3GB 384-bit for $301 and maybe pick up another a while later for a crossfire configuration. Although I have read that going crossfire has a lot of weird graphic problems.
I'm hoping that whatever I use I wont have to use an active display port adapter anymore. Those things are about $130 so that can be added to what I can spend on a card.
Anyway, any thoughts?
I have a PC that I built Quite a while ago but is still spry. It's a:
core i7-950 3.6 Bloomfield LGA 1366 CPU
Asus P6x58D-E Motherboard
6 gigs of RAM
Seasonic 750 watt PSU
Noctua NH-D14 heat sink
I have an xfx 5970 that has been running 3 Samsung 2333sw 23"LCDs at 5760 X 1080 in Eyefinity quite nicely. But I think an upgrade is overdue so I'm looking for a little future proofing for the "next generation" games and see if I can get better performance with what I we have been playing. I still do some gaming (like Bioshock and Tomb Raider) but the gaming these days is mostly for my kids that are into new shooters, Rust and what ever comes our way.
If the frame rates are too low we have no trouble switching back to single screen but I'm shooting for Eyefinity. I've always been an AMD fanboy because I have a few PC's and I want to stick with one set of drivers for switching cards and troubleshooting. In my recent shopping I have read that SAPPHIRE has some of the best AMD cards around.
So I was reading about the TRI-X OC 100362-2SR Radeon R9 290 4GB @ $434 and the Toxic 100363TXSR Radeon R9 280X 3GB @ $380.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m7L-YAlM2M
And thinking that the TRI-X is very pricy (LOL) and both use a lot of power and I wonder if my 750 watt would handle it with all the hard drives and fans and stuff so I'm looking maybe to something like the 100363L Radeon R9 280X 3GB 384-bit for $301 and maybe pick up another a while later for a crossfire configuration. Although I have read that going crossfire has a lot of weird graphic problems.
I'm hoping that whatever I use I wont have to use an active display port adapter anymore. Those things are about $130 so that can be added to what I can spend on a card.
Anyway, any thoughts?
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