I'm putting together a new system, i will be using it for CAD, games and 3d rendering. At the moment i can get the windforce 290x for $699 in aus and the saphire tri-x 290x for $729. The windforce 290 is $529, the tri-x is $575 and the msi twin frozer is $539. I am currently only going to be running 1080p but i am hopefully going to be getting a 1440p monitor soon. I did have a look at nvidia cards but i heard that the ATI cards are better for rendering. anyone have any advice/ suggestions, maybe even a 280x?
its depending which software you use to render and edit on..
For example if you use software that utilize open CL, like sony vegas then yeah AMD would be great, if you use adobe premiere or something like that, that utilize Cuda alot, then its better to go Nvidia.
anyway if you going to use open CL to render on then go with R9-290.
Sorry, I should have said before, I'm going to be 3d rendering like CAD rendering on soldiworks. do you think that the extra money would be worth it for the 290x or just stick with the 290? Also i know that the saphire 290 would probably be the best but would it be worth the extra over say the twin frozer edition?
well you know probably your self which amd of nvidia works the best on the software you use for rendering, since you look for a AMD in particular, then i think that you gonne utilize open CL to render on, which is great.
I would say Go with the R9-290, offcourse a NON reference model. in my opinnion in therms of gaming, the 290 and 290x are realy close, somethimes the 290 does even better in gaming. in my opinnion, the 290X is NOT worth it.
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Thanks, thats exactly what i needed to know, thanks a heap, in your opinion which 290 is the best, tri-x, windforce, twin frozer or dcu2?
Which ever is cheapest. They all cool with in a margin of maybe 1c
In the benchmarks that I've seen the fastest is the tri-x, but the best in terms of performance/noise is the twin frozer.
i have ASUS 290X DCU2 OC.... but the drivers are so damn bad !!! 80% of my games refuse to start... i need to reinstall them :( also , sometimes the DRIVER RECOVERY thing kick in when the the drivers quit on me...
notice : my win7 x64 was installed on November 2010 ... and i have all sort of crap on it so that might be a HUGE factor !!!
i can't run the normal version of the drivers because i get WIN7 BLUE SCREEN... must run the 14.1 beta :( ...
Yeah, i had read that these asus cards wern't the best, i also read that the twin-frozer and the tri-x are the best performing and cooling because they don't use a reference PCB's
asus has a custom PCB with better components than the reference board...
i don't think the problems are of hardware nature but of software origins
It depends if you want to overclock or not If you want to overclock go 290x as you can overclock with it, if you do not want to overclock get the 290 as the 290x is a rip off if you do not want to overclock