I'm getting back into PC gaming after a ten year hiatus and for the longest time I have been set on buying the R9 290X. In particular I wanted to buy the Sapphire Vapor-X OC R9 290X. That was, until someone here on Tom'sHardware pointed out that the R9 cards have been having "screen blackout" issues. I have been doing a lot of searches and boy were they right. I love the 512 bit bus. I love the 4 GB of VRAM. I love the numbers it gets on 4k in crossfire (http://www.anandtech.com/show/7492/the-geforce-gtx-780-ti-review/4).
But I can't handle screen flickering and system instability. I'm set on the Gigabyte 780 TI OC if the R9 cards are too problematic.
So my question is this: do the R9 cards still have the "black screen" issue? How much of a problem is it? I'm looking to hear from everybody, but I'm really interested in R9 owners. Thanks in advance for your answers!
But I can't handle screen flickering and system instability. I'm set on the Gigabyte 780 TI OC if the R9 cards are too problematic.
So my question is this: do the R9 cards still have the "black screen" issue? How much of a problem is it? I'm looking to hear from everybody, but I'm really interested in R9 owners. Thanks in advance for your answers!