Time for an upgrade :D

[Sbu051995]

Good evening to everyone!! So happy to be here!

First let me introduce myself...

My real name is Fabio and I'm from Italy, I'm 19 and I'm a fan of Linus!!!

Now let's get to the problem/question I have for you...

What would you suggest me to buy as a replacement for my ancient GTS 450?

I ask because it served me very well, no doubts about that, but is hot and noisy like hell!!

I play on a 1080p panel through VGA connection (I know it's bad but I realy don't understand why...),

My plan is to upgrade the entire system but I don't know which card to choose...

My budget is around 240$ and I saw two cards that realy got my attention...

_ Gigabyte Windforce OC R9 270X 2Gb (GV-R927XOC-2GD)

_ Gigabyte Windforce OC R9 270X 4Gb (GV-R927XOC-4GD)

The 4Gb one is about 30 bucks more then the other one...

I wonder if getting the 4Gb one is safer against saving some money and get the 2Gb one...

But there's more... in the middle of the two, as for price, there's a Sapphire R9 280 (non-X) dual-x version...

I know these are a lot of things but I can't decide by myself and would like to hear from you what would be the best option...

Thanks in advance!

                                                                        Fabio (Sbu051995)

[Sbu051995]

so sorry!!!! my notebook was restarting when I hit the post button.... Then I hit it again when it started up and... why am I so stupid!!

[Yoann Craniumz]

Could you provide the system specs? It would allow users to see if there can be minimal bottlenecking on most games. I may be wrong but as far as I know, the 270x isn't powerful enough to use 4gb vram.