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sando99

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I'm very disappointed of R9 280X series. Replaced Sapphire R9 280X Vapor-X due to coil whine. And my current Asus R9 280X DCIIT also has coil whine and probably artifacts. Now I am going to search for an Nvidia alternative. I will return my current card and I can pay a small amount of money. Can you suggest me something? I was thinking of GTX770 2GB, but I am afraid that 2GB will be insufficient soon. And I don't really want to spend so much money on the 4GB variant. Is there something better than the GTX770 2GB in that price range.
 
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sincreator

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The coil whine is the board manufacturers problem, not AMD's. They only make the chip inside the card. Everything else is made by the vendor. You can have this with either AMD/Nvidia. You could just get a different manufacturers 280x and have no coil whine, or you may grab a Nvidia card and have it too just as easily.
 
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jbrown156

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go for a gtx 780 or 780ti as they are cream of the crop At 1080 gaming ..or if you have any hope left in amd go for a r9 295x2 it works wonders.. please remember to choose the answer as it helps develop our score on the forum
 
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dude sorry to burst your bubble but the 770 is right behind those cards i posted so if you have enough money to buy a 770 the you should save abit more to but a 780 off amazon or ebay..or you can get a used one for the price of a 770 ..
 
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ingtar33

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Coil whine is a result of the ceramic capacitors vibrating due to certain electrical frequencies, and bumping against the PCB of the video card.

It is a problem that can afflict every graphic card, power supply and motherboard in existence at random. However certain families of products have it occurs more often then others. The tahiti cored 7870xt, 7950, 7970, r9-280, r9-280x all are part of the family of cards that tends to get this more often then others. This is due to certain electrical frequencies being used in those cores are more likely to vibrate the capacitors then not. Throw in the fact that sapphire and power color apparently get their capacitors for those boards from the same supplier, and you have a perfect storm of coincidence that occasionally yields a coin whine a little more often in those cards then others.

That said, I have a r9-280x from MSI which has zero coil whine. when i say it's "more common" i'm not talking about large numbers. 10% chance across the whole product line is probably the highest percentage you'll ever see of coil whine. it usually is closer to 3%-6%' if you check nvidia forums you'll see plenty of titan and 780 and 770 owners suffering from coil whine as well.

So there are no guarantees.

As to your question. the 770 is roughly on par with a r9-280x... if you don't want to spend much money going with a 770, your only other option would be a gtx 680 or 670... though you'll likely have to buy them used.
 
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Do you think that switching from Asus R9 280X DCIIT 3GB to GTX 770 2GB will be a downgrade looking at the VRAM? Which videocard will last longer and will be more future proof?
 
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It will pretty much be an even swap. You don't need to worry about vram limitaions unless you have a resolution above 1080p with a 2gb card.
 
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recently HardOC did a series of articles looking at 4gb vs 3gb vs 2gb... with watchdogs, the basic conclusion was any card with 3gb or better will be able to play watchdogs with ultra textures at 1080p. any card with less won't be able to manage ultra textures without some stuttering at that level. meanwhile 4gb was the min for ultra textures at 1440p or higher with no stuttering.

Of course watchdogs is a uniquely terribly coded game so it's at the extreme limits of what vram you'll need. The issue at play is, we might see more and more games heavy on the vram due to the UNIFIED memory designs of the xb1 and ps4. It seems most of the console ports are leaning heavily on vram... or at least heavier then games in the past used to. so the lazier and sloppier the console port it's probably more likely large vram and huge core numbers will be more and more necessary going forward.
 
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AMD recommends a 600w, and the CX series from Corsair are lower quality units. I would say no. It may boot up and get to windows, but it may shut down or break if you were to load it down.

 
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sando99

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Hi again, managed to find brand new R9 290 on a really good price. My choices are between XFX, Asus, Sapphire Tri-X and Gigabyte. Can you mark them with numbers from better to worse? Thanks in advance.
 
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The best would be the Sapphire card. Cool and quiet because of the excellent cooler. Then the Gigabyte,XFX, and the Asus DC II are about the same.

 
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