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Sebastien pham

Sebastien pham

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hey everyone!

I am doing some intense research on which graphic cards should i get for my gaming pc which i recently built with some old parts and new parts. I need it to run at least two monitor and be able to handle 3d rendering from 3d modeling.

My question is... have anyone ever purchase Diamond Multimedia graphic cards? if so, how is it and if there any problems at your end with the company or cards.

also should i get SLi or Xfire with it.




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I'd go with the Sapphire card and you might want to think about getting a better motherboard in the somewhat near future so you can overclock the CPU or the card will never reach it's full potential. You certainly wouldn't want to SLI or Crossfire with that CPU at stock speeds. That board has thermal issues though so you don't want to be overclocking any significant amount beyond 300-400Mhz, or you'll probably encounter troubles.

You can get a good overclocking budget board for a decent price. If you decide to do that at any point, I'd recommend this:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-ga970aud3p
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Darkbreeze

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Diamond isn't one of the better GPU vendors out there. Stick to cards made by Sapphire, XFX, EVGA, MSI, Zotac, Gigabyte or ASUS. Possibly even in that order. Unless of course you get a reference card directly from ATI (AMD) or NVidia (Which I don't recommend). I'd think with your CPU and PSU you can run pretty much any single card you can afford.

Due to current prices I'd probably say the GTX 970 was the best option but anything from an R9 270X up or a GTX 760 up will handle your 3d rendering. Determine at what level of gaming performance you require should be the determining factor on how expensive a card you need. Do you have a specific budget?
 
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Sebastien pham

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i would say about $400. Games such as Dragon Age: inquisition upcoming, titanfall, lord of the fallen upcoming and etc. I was thinking about getting one of these:

GIGABYTE GV-R929OC-4GD Radeon R9 290 4GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125500

PowerColor PCS+ AXR9 290 4GBD5-PPDHE Radeon R9 290 4GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131549

SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X 100362VXSR Radeon R9 290 4GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support TRI-X OC (UEFI) Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202103
 
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I'd go with the Sapphire card and you might want to think about getting a better motherboard in the somewhat near future so you can overclock the CPU or the card will never reach it's full potential. You certainly wouldn't want to SLI or Crossfire with that CPU at stock speeds. That board has thermal issues though so you don't want to be overclocking any significant amount beyond 300-400Mhz, or you'll probably encounter troubles.

You can get a good overclocking budget board for a decent price. If you decide to do that at any point, I'd recommend this:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-ga970aud3p
 
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