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[AnotherTechGuy]

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[Paralectic]

Do NOT trade your 780 for the 290!

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[Altecice]

I would take it myself.

 

The only issue with a 290 is the stock cooler. That card does not run the stock cooler...

Also if you play anything like BF4 then mantle will be a bonus.

except from that the cards are more or less equal 

[sabot]

You can mine with the 290 so it can make you some money!

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[lachyman]

You probably won't see a performance diffirence, Mantle isn't relevant to your hexacore. Do as you like, if you like the green GTX logo or NVIDIA in general stick with your 780, if you want a change, mine a little bit etc. get his card.

[Altecice]

It's pretty appealing, I'm sticking with Bf3 for now, bf4 is pretty much the same game imo.

I've got a 8970m in my laptop, and that's been nothing but a pain in the ass for drivers, I'm assuming it's better on the desktop?

 

Currently running two 290x's and they are smooth as butter. No driver issues either and that's on constant beta drivers (thanks thief game >.>)

[dragosudeki]

I'm not too sure how those cards differ in value where you are, but if in NA you could trade and sell it for a higher price and get back a 780. >.< I would take it if its the gigabyte non reference cooler, otherwise keep.

[zapsyou]

How high can either card overclock, pretty important to the choice

[TheTechnerd]

Well you can always overklock the 290 so it will become more powerful. I would trade it just to get a difference from the Nvidia experience and for overclocking.

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[The_Strict_Nein]

From what I've heard, 290s don't OC well

 

They tend to heat up like all hell even at reference with a stock cooler. Seeing as it's a Windforce card, it should perform pretty well.

 

My opinion however? Keep the 780.

[Vendetta]

Good evening,

 

So I've recently been offered by mate to trade GPUs.

 

His offer is his Gigabyte Windforce 290 + $50 (A cup of Coffee costs $3.50 here, for a concept of our dollar value) AUD for my GTX 780 reference.

What would you personally do?

 

The early gigabyte windforce R7/9 coolers had a design issue that caused them to not cool the card anywhere near what it should (the same if not hotter than stock cooler). Make sure that his is the updated cooler if you decide to trade. I'd personally take that trade if his has the updated cooler.

[SkilledRebuilds]

From what I've heard, 290s don't OC well

Mine (see sig, note, I prioritize core clocks, mem can go higher but no need) does fine with just air cooling... I'm sure I could easily get past 1200Mhz coreclocks with WC.

I also do not see anything higher than 80*c after hours of usage. Its a beast.

 

As for OP, its not going to get you any performance difference that's noticible in many games.

 

So whatever team you support or need features from, go them. Green or red.

[Excon]

The early gigabyte windforce R7/9 coolers had a design issue that caused them to not cool the card anywhere near what it should (the same if not hotter than stock cooler). Make sure that his is the updated cooler if you decide to trade. I'd personally take that trade if his has the updated cooler.

Even if it's the old design they issued a recall so you an easily get it replaced. Essentially OP could trade a used 780 for a brand new 290 which is definitely worth it.

[Real_nimr0d_3]

Everyone is saying get the 290 and you'll get mantle and you can mine too, but I wanna ask you to ask him why is he trading it with 50 bucks, he doesn't know about the mantle and mining stuff???,  If he's selling coz he just wanna get an nvidia experience and there's nothing wrong with the card than I would say it's a steal, take it from me(look below), mining is really worth it. And you never what's price of that 290 is gonna be in 2 months, you can probably trade it and get two 780's.

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[Polyvalent]

From what I've heard, 290s don't OC well

Reference cards don't because of heat issues.

This is not the card with the stock cooler.

[Hakka]

The weather is starting to cool down in aus, get the 290 and use it to heat your house in winter.

[Humbug]

well it's a sidegrade. If You want 50 dollars take it.

[SlaughterSmurf]

Maybe if he throws in 100$, but the 780 performs better and runs cooler.

[ShadowofGhosts]

I would only get the 290 if I was coinmining or doing CAD Design or doing some OpenCL stuff. Otherwise, it runs really hot and thus consumes quite a bit of power, and the 780 trade blows with the 290, while falling very slightly short in stuff like 3DMark Firestrike. 

[theking]

I would trade it right away

[LOST TALE]

I would trade it right away

I second that.

 

Prefer 50$ + the r9 290.

That includes everything  of r9 290 vs ref gtx 780

Aint going to do a fulll list but I know this shit.

 

rational on demand, gonna own all of you noobs! depends on the overclock.