I been changing back and forth from nvidia to AMD, I dont experience any problem with both. Dont get too attached to one company for no reason.

for my case, its

unless AMD releases a card that have good reference cooler, im sticking to Nvidia

Going to be fair.

Not defending Nvidia here. Jen Hsun Huang should be punched in the face for lying and who ever made the decision for this screw up in marketing should be fired without compensation.

But the point still stands, the 970 has not gotten any slower since launch guys. It's still faster than the 290 and 780. The only card that beats it for price-performance ratio is the 290x currently, but it's not like the 290x is not without it's own problems either.

Play at 1080p? Get a 970.
Play at 1440p? Get a 290x.
Play at 4k and beyond? Dude, why bother asking when your pockets should be bottomless at this point.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Jan 31 2015, 01:26 PM

290 also can play quite nice on 1440p cos my friend using U2713 monitor working quite well but really hotter than my card at least 10°c

Of which 970 can also for the majority of games currently. It's just that there are games that will severely tax that 3.5GB VRAM, that's where the 290x will come ahead in performance.

Reference cooler? There are better 3rd party cooler that done better job for roughly the same money so that is a moot point to bias to one side. Talking about reference cooler, not the entire lineup uses the same great cooler, for example GTX 760 uses crappy stock cooler that never ever touch the boost clock the longer you play the game.

i prefer the ref cooler method of dumping heat outside of case than letting it recirculate inside

3rd party coolers are indeed superior in every way, but not in the aspect of dumping heat outside of casing

my old GTX660 stock reference cooler did a pretty decent job, even allowing a minor OC and staying well within 76-82C. but thats a 140W card, so it might not count much.

even so, my current 780 cooling perf is rather impressive so far for a reference cooler. 76-78C on room temp Shadow Of Mordor 1440p, all max cept texture and thats with an OC of 100/200MHz (reaching boost clock of 1084MHz). with AC room of ambient 24C, it drops to 73C max, avg 69C

unless AMD is capable to giving to customers reference cooler with the capability like Nvidia-esque TITAN cooler, i have no choice but to stick to NGreedia

You have Carbide Air 540, should be no problem using open cooler cards

I dont know how to react to this whole fiasco...coming from 1GB HD7850 before, and it is still a good card.

So a person pays for a G-Sync monitor,but you can get cheaper monitor that can also have G-Sync?Kinda confused.

That's your experience.There's a lot of other people of using AMD cards,working fine.Both NVidia and AMD have their own problems.

Doesn't matter what case anyone is using. Air goes wherever you push it.
So Air 540 or not, if there are fans pushing the hot air to all the other components in the PC, then other things will heat up.

not with the stock fans, there are still hot spots in the case even with 2 stock AF140s

i changed to 3x120mm Silverstone APs

works like magic, no hot spots noticed so far

conclusion is we need console for gsync. i still prefer green over red.

really regret ? woo im using 2x r9 290X crossfire mode (i buy 3 r9 290x in a year) what i experience.. IMPROVE in performance now R9 290x equal to GTX 780 Ti while before under it..and Game MANTLE Support(is like using DX12) Able to Crossfire(dual GPU) without need it to be Same brands/ Clock speed Just same Model (e.g. R9 290 able to dual with R9 290X) oh without using Bridge to Dual or Triple or Quad Gpu... oh finally.. 4GB is 4GB

Guys,

Im currently getting freeze while gaming in BF3 on 1440p with 970gtx.. The error message im getting looks directly linked to directx.Anybody encounter this issue before?.. previously while on 1080 didnt ever get the game freeze..

i know u're AMD fanboy what.. i'm not dulan with the 3.5gb vram shit but i'm more concern bout the ROP's, bus width & no future driver update. i personally prefer single gpu. if u wanna highlight 4gb is 4gb then go ahead cos i really disrespect to those guys who said b4 vram really not important for gaming.. rmb who said b4.. go *#)#*$(#@($!*(&%^&^#+

This post has been edited by ngkhanmein: Jan 31 2015, 06:11 PM

my MSI GT70 20D using GTX780M so... is that mean i am Nvidia Fan boy too ? i thought everyone is End user supporting both company meant non of us experience single gpu company monopoly(Gpu price increase selling at 200%/ company misadvertise their spec) which in term bad for end user..

hi guys, quick question here, i wanna OC my Sapphire R7 250X, and so far i just up around =
GPU Clock = 965mhz
High Performance Memory Clock = 1165mhz
and i`ve furmark on both 1080 and 720 for like a minute and it stays around 72 celcius Caps. So my question here is, how do i know its the max OC for my GPU and also what is the function for power limit settings and how to use it. Thanks ! (Using AMD Catalyst)

r9 290 is a good gpu just that the reference cooler screwed up many first time buyers on overheating issue and black screen. I was one of them, unless AMD fixes those concerns id say many green team will jump ship to red team, but this vram issue is subjective to each person's eye to want more detail u gotta pay more, but what nvidia did was not honest. Wished 3dfx was still around

i know u're amd & msi fansi.. by the way, how much u bought ur 290x?