msi radeon r9 290x or 390x?

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ahobodude

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So I want to upgrade my gpu in my pc since ive started playing more intensive games and was wondering if I should crossfire my current msi radeon r9 290x with another one or crossfire it with the msi radeon r9 390x? or possibly even replace the card with a better overall card.

Ive never done a crossfire before so I don't really know what I'm getting into. I didn't know if there was a possibility of the 390's performace degrading being fired with an older card or not.
 
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dont crosfire unless you are experienced there are alot of problems with crossfire and you will get more preformance with the one new card
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Okay if that's what you recommend would there be an even better card, for not too much more, that you would suggest? And just put of curiosity what are the issues with crossfiring I could encounter?
 
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so I have decided for sure that I do not want to cross fire. but now I'm trying to decide if I should just upgrade to the 390x, or shovel out the extra for a 980ti or something like that.
 
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From what I've seen so far, the graphics market is leaning towards Nvidia right now, simply because of its optimizations and better drivers. I have a 390x, and I have had quite a few problems with its drivers crashing (BSOD) my computer.
Basically, from my research:
390x = 4k gaming (for its 8 gigs of ram)
980ti = anything else you want to do.
 
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I've had my 290X CF for over a year now with no real issues only when I do some insane overclock or flash with modded bios things get unstable. (

We all agree Nvidia is a more efficient card it doesn't mean they don't have driver issues...google and find out yourself.

the 390X is a rebadged 290x with core and mem overclocked. When 290x is OC'd to 390x settings, they perform the same...it'll be a side grade not an upgrade. I've sucessfuly put the Grenada XT bios (390x) in a Hawaii XT GPU (290x).

I'd wait and save up as Nvidia release the new Pascal GPU and AMD release the new Polaris GPU mid 2016.


 
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390X for 4K gaming?....that's a joke. The 8GB will help with loading textures and what not but that core clock speed is pants for 4K gaming.. 4K movies? it'll eat that for brekkie, tea n dindins!..only the 980ti and Titan x will give you decent framerates on high/ultra settings

 
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