[quote=kizwan,Jan 24 2015, 02:59 PM]
It's not major dilemma. If you're going to run multimonitor and/or at 4k & higher resolution then 8GB would make sense because running games at max settings will eat a lot of VRAM. Even if you did want to run in this kind setup, you'll need two or more 8GB cards. If you stick to 1080p, then 4GB is more than enough. Your PSU is fine for single card.
It's not that simple. Fan on the cooler is not designed to work based on tdp but it based on temps, specifically the core temp. Higher tdp doesn't necessarily mean it will run at higher temp than lower tdp (read heat vs. temperature). It depends on the cooler system. Fan speed & noise depends on a couple of factors like the cooler (heatsink) efficiency/performance & fan specification.
my R9 290 Tri-X @ 50% fan speed is quieter than my 1200rpm 120mm silverstone case fans...

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Chicken and duck talk

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How informative on your way to discredit people which doesn't agree with you.

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You misunderstand. The "Chicken and duck talk" is Chinese saying that you are not talking about the same thing & misunderstand what he is trying to say.

BTW, I just want to clarify that only.
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Thanks a lot, will try my 620W first, if I ever go for 290X. Now just need to decide which card should I buy now...

This post has been edited by wongkoewei: Jan 24 2015, 06:15 PM

[quote=kizwan,Jan 24 2015, 02:59 PM]
It's not major dilemma. If you're going to run multimonitor and/or at 4k & higher resolution then 8GB would make sense because running games at max settings will eat a lot of VRAM. Even if you did want to run in this kind setup, you'll need two or more 8GB cards. If you stick to 1080p, then 4GB is more than enough. Your PSU is fine for single card.
It's not that simple. Fan on the cooler is not designed to work based on tdp but it based on temps, specifically the core temp. Higher tdp doesn't necessarily mean it will run at higher temp than lower tdp (read heat vs. temperature). It depends on the cooler system. Fan speed & noise depends on a couple of factors like the cooler (heatsink) efficiency/performance & fan specification.
my R9 290 Tri-X @ 50% fan speed is quieter than my 1200rpm 120mm silverstone case fans...

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Chicken and duck talk

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How informative on your way to discredit people which doesn't agree with you.

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You misunderstand. The "Chicken and duck talk" is Chinese saying that you are not talking about the same thing & misunderstand what he is trying to say.

BTW, I just want to clarify that only.

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Thanks a lot, will try my 620W first, if I ever go for 290X. Now just need to decide which card should I buy now...

Frankly tell you, my budget max RM2300, final upgrade before GST, plan to use it for some time (at least three years).

Of coz, if possible cheaper the solution is better i can save back my budget. so if I follow this direction, GTX 970 or 290X will be more sensible. As personally I'm a mild AMD fanboy, so emotionally i more toward 290X. But I have read some review state that GTX 970 shows better performance. For GTX 980, there are a demon inside my heart always telling me to get the best card around (which is GTX 980 for now)

When do you think it will out? 380X~ Now all we know about it just rumours and rumours with unknown amount of element of truths inside~~ For Lowyat shop i think they all can make 500K annually with little sweat lol

This post has been edited by wongkoewei: Jan 24 2015, 08:08 PM

nice plan... i'm dreaming for A SSD also, maybe not 256GB, might get cheapo 128GB for wondows only.

Wow... informative!! what goods we currently have now really do pay sales/service tax? Do you mean that most electronics we have now are paid for these taxes already? You think GST may not have impact on electronic prices? if so, that good news indeed

This post has been edited by wongkoewei: Jan 24 2015, 08:30 PM

yeah i went to lowyat few days ago for some inquiry, I heard those reasons lol! I guess no matter hoe tiny of the impact, we need to pay extra 6% if those electronics were not paid SST before. But I'm not really sure if the electronic parts i bought a few years back are paid for the tax or not. Should i concern and buy my dream card before april or no need to worry the price wont up?

PS: sorry guys I know this is off topic and not gonna do with Radeon, but I guess as a consumer here we should know better the future tax implementation right?

This post has been edited by wongkoewei: Jan 24 2015, 08:52 PM

Regard of GTX 980, how do you see minor brand like Leadtek, i just know they are quite low profile and almost all nvidia quadro card i saw were from leadtek just like Sapphire for AMD firepro. Priced at RM1999, will that be better buy compared with major bradn like MSI Giga or ASUS which their GTX 980 priced at 2299 or more

Nvidia already forced to use 28nm on GTX 900 series, I guess much of the rumor said that the TSMC production of 20nm (or below) chips are devoted to Apple and qualcomm. But May I ask that lowering the nm may help in power consumption, but will it make large impact on performance? From what I see when Intel came from 32nm to 22nm, the performance difference are not as drastic as I thought.

I heard they are going to Global Foundries. I think AMD should consider cooperate with Samsung as well, they got one of the best electronic manufacturing technology around.

I will go for brands or colour only if all these brands are similar in price and similar in perceived quality . But for some brand like Sapphire for AMD/ATi; Leadtek for Nvidia, they are very less advertised (especially for leadtek,I rarely see anyone using this brand as review subject since GTX 700; Sapphire enjoy very nice review though, especially for their superb GPU cooler). for these brand I just don't know if I should choose them against the major brand which are significantly more expensive. This kind of dilemma always appearing when I did anykind of upgrade (such as, dilemma btw AMD FX 8350 or i5 4670K when I build my current rig, while my 7870 came from my previous rig which was a Core 2 Quad Q9440). For the past, I will always go for the price (thats why I might always choose sapphire for AMD card, and this brand enjoys good review), but now I don't know. As I have never set my eye on nvidia before as past gen AMD card just too good in CP value.

I'm a long term AMD card user, I really do hope disaster will not come, but i guess hope will do very less to help LOL

For me, I will lean more toward better performing 280X for that particular price range. LOL~

despite R9 285 being newer and more efficient in term of power efficiency, I admit I'm that kind of guy who will not have a single thought of TDP issue IF the power supply are enough...

I'm want of them who deeply poisoned~~~

This wednesday I asked Viewnet in Lowyat when i wandered around, they said still got stock and rarely a person buy 290X now since GTX 900 series are on the rack...

I really hope so... I gonna act on February... decided on cheapo 290X originally...

U thinking to go for 290X?

is okay... If for 290X I might turn and hunt for 290X vapor X 8GB instead

This post has been edited by wongkoewei: Jan 26 2015, 07:05 PM


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I'm thinking the same, but unsure buying an 1 year old GPU now are wise enough... but it is durt cheap now, 380X/390X wont be as cheap as this, i guess...

The lightning cooler just make me poisoned deeply...

This post has been edited by wongkoewei: Jan 26 2015, 06:44 PM

I saw this... after days of struggling, I finally made decision, now this news just giving me doubt of my current choice Fate ah fate...