What do you think about this Radeon? It has only two fans but, it's the cheapest aftermarket Radeon I can buy. In my country it costs 1300PLN, Sapphire TRI-X costs 1550 and Vapor-X 1700, for comparison 780Ti costs about double that of that Radeon.
How would those card behave with just 2x8X PCI-E 2.0? That would probably only be temporary as I probably change the platform for HW-E, but I'm still undecided if I should wait for Broadwell-E. The CPU should be drop-in replacement, right? What I don't like about that is that new memory standard which at first will be both slower and more expensive. They can offer more bandwidth sure, but timings are going to loosen considerably. The first models will be slower then DDR3 but that is not what concerns me, RAM performance matters little anyway. Pricing is the much more serious issue for me.
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Does even the non-overclocked sapphire have the best cooler?
Gigabyte is OCed to 1040MHz and is 100PLN cheaper then sapphire, does it have worse cooler? Does it OC worse then Sapphire?
It goes like that XFX 1300, GB 1450, Sapphire 1550, Sapphire V-X 1700. Which one is the best value?
It seems Gigabyte is the sweet spot, I don't trust that XFX cooler.
Is it worth waiting for Maxwell, considering that I only care about performance per euro and don't care about power consumption.
How would those card behave with just 2x8X PCI-E 2.0? That would probably only be temporary as I probably change the platform for HW-E, but I'm still undecided if I should wait for Broadwell-E. The CPU should be drop-in replacement, right? What I don't like about that is that new memory standard which at first will be both slower and more expensive. They can offer more bandwidth sure, but timings are going to loosen considerably. The first models will be slower then DDR3 but that is not what concerns me, RAM performance matters little anyway. Pricing is the much more serious issue for me.
UPDATE:
Does even the non-overclocked sapphire have the best cooler?
Gigabyte is OCed to 1040MHz and is 100PLN cheaper then sapphire, does it have worse cooler? Does it OC worse then Sapphire?
It goes like that XFX 1300, GB 1450, Sapphire 1550, Sapphire V-X 1700. Which one is the best value?
It seems Gigabyte is the sweet spot, I don't trust that XFX cooler.
Is it worth waiting for Maxwell, considering that I only care about performance per euro and don't care about power consumption.
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