What graphics card should I get?

[Curious Pineapple]

2 hours ago, grimreeper132 said:

which you need to buy

Narp, standard warranty. Comes with most things.

[Imglidinhere]

7 hours ago, Morgan MLGman said:

290X is more comparable to a GTX 980 on current drivers tbh, and no, for a single 290X even a 550W PSU would suffice, but just to be safe a 650W one is recommended.

The 290X is a massive power hog. I'd rather be safe than sorry when my GPU draws damn near 300w.

[grimreeper132]

4 hours ago, Nena360 said:

That should do then there is just the cooling of the 290X? o3o

yea don't know if it's reference or not that I'll get given. But 

 

1 hour ago, Imglidinhere said:

The 290X is a massive power hog. I'd rather be safe than sorry when my GPU draws damn near 300w.

I have a 450W PSU, which might be a slight problem.

 

2 hours ago, Curious Pineapple said:

Narp, standard warranty. Comes with most things.

ok, never mind then.

[Imglidinhere]

59 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

I have a 450W PSU, which might be a slight problem.

Hory shet, yeah no get the RX 470 then.

[Morgan MLGman]

12 hours ago, Imglidinhere said:

The 290X is a massive power hog. I'd rather be safe than sorry when my GPU draws damn near 300w.

Would you consider a 980Ti "a massive power hog"? Those two draw around the same amount of power. I ran an overclocked 290X + an FX-8350 @4,5GHz on a 650W Corsair TX V2 PSU and there was no issues, a 550W PSU would suffice easily but the PSU would be simply pretty loud so a 650W one is perfectly fine. An overclocked FX-8350 draws as much power as any CPU on the market atm so the setup drew as much as it's possible with a single GPU. 750W could even support two stock 290X's with a locked i5 for instance if the PSU was of good quality. But I would never try that as it's wayyy too close to the limit. But it would work.

[grimreeper132]

32 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Would you consider a 980Ti "a massive power hog"? Those two draw around the same amount of power. I ran an overclocked 290X + an FX-8350 @4,5GHz on a 650W Corsair TX V2 PSU and there was no issues, a 550W PSU would suffice easily but the PSU would be simply pretty loud so a 650W one is perfectly fine. An overclocked FX-8350 draws as much power as any CPU on the market atm so the setup drew as much as it's possible with a single GPU. 750W could even support two stock 290X's with a locked i5 for instance if the PSU was of good quality. But I would never try that as it's wayyy too close to the limit. But it would work.

I have a 450W PSU, though, which is the problem

[Morgan MLGman]

1 minute ago, grimreeper132 said:

I have a 450W PSU, though, which is the problem

Then the RX 470 is the way to go for you.

[grimreeper132]

1 minute ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Then the RX 470 is the way to go for you.

yea, seams like that will be the case for it then, I'll get it and that'll give me an improvement so that'll be handy

[Curious Pineapple]

So there I was recommending CEX for graphics cards, and I get sold 2 faulty ones. The one I returned has been put back on sale! Obviously any testing stopped at "does it POST?" Good, we'll sell it.

[Imglidinhere]

On 2/3/2017 at 5:34 AM, Morgan MLGman said:

Would you consider a 980Ti "a massive power hog"? Those two draw around the same amount of power. I ran an overclocked 290X + an FX-8350 @4,5GHz on a 650W Corsair TX V2 PSU and there was no issues, a 550W PSU would suffice easily but the PSU would be simply pretty loud so a 650W one is perfectly fine. An overclocked FX-8350 draws as much power as any CPU on the market atm so the setup drew as much as it's possible with a single GPU. 750W could even support two stock 290X's with a locked i5 for instance if the PSU was of good quality. But I would never try that as it's wayyy too close to the limit. But it would work.

Yes I would.  I also wouldn't recommend using a 980 Ti with ONLY a 450w PSU too.  

[grimreeper132]

14 hours ago, Curious Pineapple said:

So there I was recommending CEX for graphics cards, and I get sold 2 faulty ones. The one I returned has been put back on sale! Obviously any testing stopped at "does it POST?" Good, we'll sell it.

yea.if it doesn't work I'll just return it then, I'm sure it'll be fine

 

[Firecheetah13]

My rx 470 beats a gtx 970 handily when both are OCed, so go with that.

[grimreeper132]

14 minutes ago, Firecheetah13 said:

My rx 470 beats a gtx 970 handily when both are OCed, so go with that.

I won't be OCing, it's too much of a hassle and a 470 is more than powerful enough for me, considering I don't do VR and only play at 1080

[Curious Pineapple]

2 hours ago, grimreeper132 said:

yea.if it doesn't work I'll just return it then, I'm sure it'll be fine

 

Going to a different store today. I started out with a 2GB HD6970, and I will end up with a 1GB HD6850 and paying more for it

[grimreeper132]

2 hours ago, Curious Pineapple said:

Going to a different store today. I started out with a 2GB HD6970, and I will end up with a 1GB HD6850 and paying more for it

that's a shame

[Gombel]

The temp of a R9 290X is quite high, i have one myself. I've had one problem with it, the temp could go up to 100 degrees  until i switched my thermal paste. After switching the thermal paste i've no problems  I would 100% recommend the R9 290X  Btw my card is (VTX3D R9 290X)

[Curious Pineapple]

3 hours ago, grimreeper132 said:

that's a shame

It works! I'm not going to complain. I suspect the previous one was used for Bitcoin mining as there were lots of dry and dodgy solder joints, when it did work it was performing lower than this new one (6870 vs 6850) and the stickers on the cooler were peeled up at the corners with dry adhesive, but the rest was fine, indicating they'd got really hot. Still going to take a bit for me to trust this one after having 2 previous dead ones, but it works and doesn't crash drivers, so that's a good sign.

[grimreeper132]

5 hours ago, Gombel said:

The temp of a R9 290X is quite high, i have one myself. I've had one problem with it, the temp could go up to 100 degrees  until i switched my thermal paste. After switching the thermal paste i've no problems  I would 100% recommend the R9 290X  Btw my card is (VTX3D R9 290X)

I un-forchantly can't get one, as it will cost me to much to buy a new PSU

[Walkure]

If getting a new PSU isn't an option the best choice would be the RX470, as the 290x will need a safe 650w if you're looking into overclocking it.

[grimreeper132]

3 hours ago, Walkure said:

If getting a new PSU isn't an option the best choice would be the RX470, as the 290x will need a safe 650w if you're looking into overclocking it.

I'm not looking at overclocking it. and yea I have a feeling I will be getting the RX 470