AMD or nVidia take my money

[Subyman]

Why did you send your 970s back, subyman?

Principle. I didn't care for the misinformation nvidia put out and I didn't want my money tied to that type of marketing. I also had memory issues in some games due to the 3.5GB, but I could have lived with that.

 

[Magic Carpet]

@Rvenger

Just wow. Didn't expect you to be so pleased with Crossfire, AMD must have really improved lately. BTW, can't you use Speedfan to tie those fans to gpu temp? That thing *when* it works, does everything for you.

Nice fans you are using, looks very close to Noctua, specs wise. I am using these ones, they only get quiet at about 800 RPM, but are very nice value for money, considering two things: 1) they are washable and 2) POH is 160,000. But if your mobo can't PWM control them, they are useless, even with both adapters on they rotate at about 1400RPM (can't recall exactly), but that's still too loud for me. At 600-800 RPM they are excellent, though and the color is right. At maximum RPM, they are extremely efficient, at the expense of noise, which is subjectively not annoying, you just hear tons of air moving.

 

[Rvenger]

@Rvenger

Just wow. Didn't expect you to be so pleased with Crossfire, AMD must have really improved lately. BTW, can't you use Speedfan to tie those fans to gpu temp? That thing *when* it works, does everything for you.

Nice fans you are using, looks very close to Noctua, specs wise. I am using these ones, they only get quiet at about 800 RPM, but are very nice value for money, considering two things: 1) they are washable and 2) POH is 160,000. But if your mobo can't PWM control them, they are useless, even with both adapters on they rotate at about 1400RPM (can't recall exactly), but that's still too loud for me. At 600-800 RPM they are excellent, though and the color is right. At maximum RPM, they are extremely efficient, at the expense of noise, which is subjectively not annoying, you just hear tons of air moving.

I like these Phanteks fans so much I replaced my H100i with them too. They were just like my old noctua fans but without the ugly color and cheaper! 🙂

Speedfan doesn't even detect the fans on my X99-A yet or else I would use it. 🙁 Speedfan was my go-to monitor utility back in the day.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I'm in the same boat. I'm considering building a gaming rig to play The Witcher 3, but I don't want to go out and buy a R290x or something else that is seriously long in the tooth at this point..

 

[Hauk]

I had a 295x2 in my cart twice today. Love the idea and know it would handle 1440p, but stop as I think that my $700 *could* buy a next gen single GPU flagship some time soon. Two months without decent gaming. IGPU and Indie games save me.

Situations like this call for a cheap back-up card. Of course the back-up card would never been good enough.

 

[Shmee]

Best solution IMO, buy 2 used 290s till the 390 series is out.

 

[Elfear]

Best solution IMO, buy 2 used 290s till the 390 series is out.

That's probably the best idea. You could probably find a used pair for $350-400 and sell them for $300 when the new cards launch. You wouldn't lose that much to be able to play games for 3-4 months with the settings cranked.

 

[96Firebird]

That's probably the best idea. You could probably find a used pair for $350-400 and sell them for $300 when the new cards launch. You wouldn't lose that much to be able to play games for 3-4 months with the settings cranked.

Yeah that seems like the best choice right now... Might not even lose much in resale if the rumors about rebranded Hawaii are correct.

 

[Subyman]

In some twisted way, its been fun trying to game on an super low end card (GT 640.) I've never had to look at minimum specs and stuff before. At least it runs Cities Skyline on low settings at 1440p, its my only saving grace right now.

Even thought about spending the $350 I would spend on a 970 or R9 290X on a Xbox One and catch up on some of the games I missed on that system. As soon as that 980TI shows up it will be next day aired to my door step.

The thing about the R9 290 is I bought one when they first launched for $399. Ended up selling it during the mine craze for $500+. That seems like an eternity ago, so that is part of the reason I refuse to buy one again for retail prices.