amd r9295x2 worth it

fishhydra1 · Mar 28, 2015

i want to know if this r9 295x2 is a good gaming gpu for 60 fps ultra settings???

running games at 1080p

coozie7 · Mar 28, 2015

It's a monster of a card if you can afford it and your case can handle the cooling system, how much are you/will you be paying for it?

fishhydra1 · Mar 28, 2015

1800$

coozie7 · Mar 28, 2015

ER...US Dollars? Australian Dollars? Hong Kong Dollars.

fishhydra1 · Mar 28, 2015

cyberpowerpc it is

im chosing r9 295x2 with 5ghz cpu fulltower water cooled for 1786$ american

mr91 · Mar 28, 2015

fishhydra1 :

I suggest the GTX 980 for 1080p 60 hz monitor.

If you want an overkill card for 1080p 60 hz get a Titan X lol

I'm using one to power my 1440 144 hz Swift

sz0ty0l4 · Mar 28, 2015

If it's a prebuilt PC with r9 295x2 and fx-9590 5ghz i wouldn't buy it. And i suggest you not to buy it. The fx-9590 is a vishera chip, same as fx 8xxx, but overclocked. It will bottleneck in cpu intensive games and cpu intensive applications. You are way better with a haswell i5 or i7 if you can afford.

The r9 295x2 is the same as any of the dual gpu solutions. It suffers from all of cfx/sli symptomps thats why i never suggest cfx/sli. A single powerful GPU is always better solution, other than that the 295x2 will eat all games on 1080p ultra settings without doubt.

Vici0us · Mar 28, 2015

Indeed it's worth it! At 1080P you'll be getting well over 60 FPS. I've got Crossfire R9 290's at 1440P and I am getting 60+ FPS in most games.

Gam3r01 · Mar 28, 2015

I think all of you are ignoring how horribly priced that build actually is...

coozie7 · Mar 29, 2015

@fishhydra1: What monitor/s will you be using? You don't need that much graphical power unless; it's 4k, you'll be using dual 1440 displays or you want to drive high refresh (120Hz or more) display/s as fast as possible.
The price does seem a little high, but boutique sellers like Cyberpower often charge a premium, can you link to it? I at least would like to see the exact specs and customisation options available.
Normally I wouldn't be too down on an AMD build but in this case I agree with the others, the selected CPU is likely to hold back that monster graphics card and you'd be better off looking at a i7 build. Again, normally, I'd suggest an i5 but with so much planned graphical power paying the extra for the better threaded performance of an i7 makes sense in this case.

fishhydra1 · Mar 29, 2015

so if i buy a intel processor i7 4970k and the r9 295x2 will that be ok????

fishhydra1 · Mar 29, 2015

good build

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K 4.0 GHz 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150 (All Venom OC Certified)
HDD: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)
MEMORY: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR3/1866MHz Dual Channel Memory [+124] (Corsair or Major Brand)
MOTHERBOARD: * GIGABYTE Z97X-SLI ATX w/ Intel GbLAN, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 2 PCI, 1 x M.2, 1 x SATA Express, or 6x SATA 6Gb/s (Extreme OC Certified)
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Dual GPUs 8GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card [+15] (Single Card (Dual GPU))
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mr91 · Mar 29, 2015

fishhydra1 :

Why the 295x2? The 980 is cheaper and capable of 1080p 60 hz...
If you like AMD the 290x should be okay too.

fishhydra1 · Mar 29, 2015

i want a gpu that runs ultra 60fps for the next 2-3 years for triple a titles

mr91 · Mar 29, 2015

fishhydra1 :

The Titan X is the better option in my opinion and the prices are similar...

fishhydra1 · Mar 29, 2015

titan x is 1000$ but i can get a r9 295x for around 599$

sz0ty0l4 · Mar 29, 2015

i would chose titan-x aswell. much more gentle solution.

xidiliar · Mar 30, 2015

Link from the future :

I know right!? The bottleneck is so blown out of proportion it's ridiculous. I used crossfire 290xs with an 8350 clocked at 4.7ghz and it played any game I threw at it. Games with proper crossfire support showed significant performance increases when enabling crossfire. It seems like everyone just likes to hate AMD these days.

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