Which GPU Should I Get?

[IMPERIUS]

Hi!

I'll be building my first pc in a week or so and decided to go with the AMD FX-6300 CPU (which I will oc later on) and I'm stuck at the GPUs. So my price range is about from the radeon 270 to the radeon 280.

I heard that the 270 is a good oc card, and if done good it can perform better than the 270x. And what if I would oc the 270x? Would it be on a similar performance level as the 280?

But since I found some deals in my country for the 280 for around 200€ and the 270x (which has oc added in the name so it means that its factory overclocked, right? Or are all the 270x gpus factory oc'd?) for the same price, I didn't know what to do.

So what do you guys recommend to me? I will be upgrading the rig in about 4 years or so. And would an oc'd 280 be bottlenecked by an oc'd 6300?

Thank you

[Ashley]

An overclocked 280 likely wouldn't be bottlenecked by your CPU. Get the best GPU you can buy, higher end GPUs will always perform better. Even if a 270 can match a 270x if the 270 is overclocked the 270x can also be overclocked. Get the blander, higher end card, instead of the lower end OCed.

[Extingquish]

270 and 270xs are just 7870 and 7870 GHz editions respectvely.

270xs are better binned, so theres a higher chance when overclocked, that the 270x would beat the OCd 270, but it wouldn't be the same performance as a 280

A 6300 will bottleneck an OCd 280, by a little bit, but not enough to even care about

[IMPERIUS]

Ok, which mobo do you suggest? It must be cheap because I'm already exeeding my budget. I also noticed that pcpartipcker.com doesn't have the 280 in its base. It only has the 280x. Is the 280 discontinued or what?

[GloriousPain]

Get the 280 no noticeable bottleneck should be present, with the 270 vs 270x thing, they are the same thing 270xs are just factory overclocked 270s... But overclocking is a luck based thing factory overclocks are neglible, infact Linus's 270 was able to OC higher than his 270x's OC I believe his end clocks were nearly ~1.3 Ghz for 270 and ~1.2 Ghz for 270x but results WILL VARY... So costing more 270x is basically just for people who don't wanna OC themselves and I suggest 270>270x but 280 beats either of them

[Strator]

Ok, which mobo do you suggest? It must be cheap because I'm already exeeding my budget. I also noticed that pcpartipcker.com doesn't have the 280 in its base. It only has the 280x. Is the 280 discontinued or what?

The 280 might be EOL because of the 285 being out now, the 280 is still around here in the US so I'm not sure.

In my son's computer, FX-6300 and MSI R9 270, I have this mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128651&cm_re=GA-970A-UD3P-_-13-128-651-_-Product , don't know if it's available or reasonably priced where you are but here it's cheap and does the job well.

 

If you cant find it look for a 970 chipset board with heatsinks on the VRM's, they will be the best option for cheap but good. The only bad thing is they are all ATX form factor no mATX.

[IMPERIUS]

The 280 might be EOL because of the 285 being out now, the 280 is still around here in the US so I'm not sure.

In my son's computer, FX-6300 and MSI R9 270, I have this mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128651&cm_re=GA-970A-UD3P-_-13-128-651-_-Product , don't know if it's available or reasonably priced where you are but here it's cheap and does the job well.

If you cant find it look for a 970 chipset board with heatsinks on the VRM's, they will be the best option for cheap but good. The only bad thing is they are all ATX form factor no mATX.

Why is the form factor a problem? It fits in the case and things shouldn't be so cramped on there?

[-rascal-]

Why is the form factor a problem? It fits in the case and things shouldn't be so cramped on there?

 

All the mATX boards are OLD low-end boards from the freakin' socket AM2+ / AM3 days. They were never designed to handle socket AM3+ CPUs.

They all use 760G / 740 chipsets. They were entry-level, low-end when they first came out, and are still low-end now.

 

These low-end boards have poor VRM designs. They had to cut costs somewhere if they want to keep the price low.

 

If your computer case (which you have yet to tell us about ) supports ATX sized motherboards, then there is nothing to worry about.