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Water cooled R9 290s CF or Water cooled 770s in SLI?

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August 20, 2014 8:25:41 AM

Hey,

As the title says, I have a hard time to decide on which video card I'm going to buy. The idea was that I would have two graphics cards in a new rig with an NZXT H440 and both cards (processor included) are going to be to be water cooled by a 360 radiator and another 240 so cooling isn't going to be a problem (even though the AMD cards tend to get a bit warmer compared to Nvidia cards). Given that the R9 290 has fallen in price lately and costs as much as a 770 by now, so my question is which would be the best?

It seems that the 290 has better performance than the 770, but it gives off more heat and consume more power, vice versa for 770, But will that really be a problem if they are going to be water cooled?

I also feel that the 770 has more "features" such ass Shadowplay, geforce experience, physx and so on while the R9 290 doesn't. Though I'm aware of that AMD is working on a similar program but it seems to take a while. Article

For 770 rig, I'd probably only need a 800 watt power supply but in the 290 I would need about 1,000 watts, (PSU Req. Link)

PSU for 290 rig will be a Corsair RM 1000W

The R9 290 is a 4GB card I know, but I'm going to by a 4GB 770 card, so that's not an issue (or is it?).

I'm planning on using the cards for some time before switching so I want to assure that they will work well with upcoming titles for at least 2 years. So I'll wait and see what the 800-series of Nvidia GPUs will have to offer.

Water block and such is already fixed, no needs to worry.

Tell me if there is anything I forgot to add and such and thanks in advance!

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August 20, 2014 8:32:51 AM

For a R9 290 crossfire setup, a 850W will still be ok at stock speeds. 1000W+ is preferred if you want a lower load on the PSU and if you want to overclock.
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August 20, 2014 8:43:03 AM

Suztera said:
For a R9 290 crossfire setup, a 850W will still be ok at stock speeds. 1000W+ is preferred if you want a lower load on the PSU and if you want to overclock.


Yeah that's one thing I forgot to mention, I'm going to be overclocking both cards and the processor. Thanks for answering!
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September 14, 2014 7:13:37 PM

290s. Yes, they draw more power. Yes, on the reference coolers they are jet engines. But they beat the 770s consistently. Keep in mind the 290 is AMDs direct competitor to the GTX 780. The larger memory bus allows for significantly more memory bandwidth than the 770, which can be a factor when looking at overall performance of a card, especially at higher than 1080p resolutions (which is what these cards were made for, after all.) And from my own first hand experience, the 290s and 290xs overclock very well. They are excellent cards. Getting the 290 for the price of the 770 is like NVIDIA dropping the 780 down to the 770 s price. And while it does not have physx (which very very few games even support, btw) nor does it have shadowplay, it does have mantle (which many big game developers seem to be starting to support so this may become big) and it also has the never settle game bundle, giving you 3 AAA titles for free. It's a great deal. The 290 is pretty much one of if the not the best bang for your buck card at the moment.
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