r9 290 tri x crossfire or single fury/980ti for 3 monitors

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Adi Shmitanka

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I currently have a r9 290 tri x. I want to create a 3 monitor setup (3*1920x1080).
what should I do? buy another r9 290 tri x? (and a motherboard that has another pci x8 slot)
or should I sell my r9 290 tri x and buy a single 980ti or air cooled fury?

Buying a motherboard and another tri x costs 400 euro
while selling my r9 (which is a bit of a trouble) and buying a single 980 ti costs around 430 euros.

I don't know what is better for me...
On the one hand I prefer nvidia.
The other hand I need to find a buyer for my r9 290.
Furtheremore if ill add another r9 ill need to replace my motherboard and do the cable management from the beggining and move the cpu etc.

 
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Adi Shmitanka

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I misscalculated. the 980 ti after selling my r9 290 will cost 500 euro.

I know it will run in Eyefinity. That is not my problem though. I don't know what is better for me- the 980 ti or another r9 290
 
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I wouldn't go with Crossfire. While I find it less counter-intuitive than SLI, it can still have driver problems. Not to mention you'll need a good 1000W power supply and plenty of cooling to support two R9 290s.

Someone will buy your 290, if you retail it for about €230. That's a reasonable price for a used card. When selling it, make sure to stress test it and guarantee that it is 100% functional and perfect, you can then guarantee that, if the buyer has any issues with it, the card was fine when they bought it.

I would recommend the Fury X over the GTX 980Ti. It performs better at higher resolutions, will be more futureproof with the HBM memory, and runs a lot cooler. The advantage of the closed loop cooler means that it exhausts air out of the case and not into the environment around the other components, helping keep your CPU cool.

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Adi Shmitanka

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The fury x performs worse then the 980 ti (I've seen a lot of benchmarks). I know it runs cooler but amd really annoys me lately. Late dated drivers and games run better on Nvidia cards lately.
Beware that buying a 980ti or fury x will cost 100 euros more than adding a r9 290, is it really worth it?
I even think r9 290 tri x crossfire runs much better than 980ti
 
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290 is crossfire will whip the pants off any single card (single gpu) solution, you could look at selling your 290 and get a R9 295X2 also.

The downside is you'll have to put up with waiting for crossfire support, sometimes dodgy minimum frames, so patience is necessary and Free sync beneficial too.

Also you're gonna need about 1000w PSU
 
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I think you're missing the key point here.
A single R9 290 will run three monitors without problem.
Adding another R9 290 is not needed, it does not add to your VRAM pool, you are not suffering in performance.... so why bother?

A single R9 290 is all you need.

IF ANYTHING you'd want to look at an R9 390 which has 8GB of VRAM which will actually give you a marginal increase in display options.



 
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Adi Shmitanka

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for r9 290 tri x crossfire my 750w power supply will be enough.
for the cooling i have 2 front intakes, one side intake. one 140mm output top fan and one 120 rear.
 
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And lots and lots of cooling. Two very hot running cards with open-air coolers (that exhaust heat back into the case) need some serious airflow to remove said heat.

AMD has perfectly good drivers, OP, I have no idea what decade you're living in. I've used about 70% AMD cards in gaming systems I've built (which is a lot) and never experienced any problems.

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Adi Shmitanka

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It's not enough for me :/ I want to play on high-ultra settings
 
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im not saying the drivers are not ok. I'm saying they come way too far from a release of a new game and games run less good on amd side cause of Nvidia GameWorks
 
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Nvidia Gameworks is utilised well in only one game so far, which is The Witcher 3. AMD always have something to counter Nvidia, it's the way it works. AMD had Mantle long before Nvidia had even thought of gameworks.

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Adi Shmitanka

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and mantle works only in bf4 and DA as far as I know and DX12 is coming soon so its pretty useless
 
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