It's time for one of my extremely episodic GPU upgrades. I'm not a big gamer but every now and then I like to drag myself into the current era. To give you a feel my current card is a 6870 and before that it was a 48__ (something). Both kept for ages. Anyway, I have a budget set aside and I'm considering buying two Sapphire R9 285s. (I'm pretty sure there's only a 2GB model available, but just in case, it's a 2GB model ). I like that it's a newer chipset (I hate buying legacy hardware) and more practically, I like that it has True Audio and the 4K decoding. I also would quite like to run two DP monitors and this will give me two DP ports without having to faff around with MST.
Alternately, I could pool the money and buy one higher end card. I'm thinking a Sapphire R9 290X 4096MB. Power consumption isn't a huge concern, but noise is.
I'm pretty hung up on staying with AMD as that's what I'm familiar with, but other than that - suggestions / warnings / random comments about echinoderms?
Thanks!
H.
Alternately, I could pool the money and buy one higher end card. I'm thinking a Sapphire R9 290X 4096MB. Power consumption isn't a huge concern, but noise is.
I'm pretty hung up on staying with AMD as that's what I'm familiar with, but other than that - suggestions / warnings / random comments about echinoderms?
Thanks!
H.