Welcome gents, tonight I think a discussion of 4K for both newbs, like me, and more experienced people would be good.
Mainstream 40' panels of 4K/1080 quality are the same price now. And now even we're getting 200mhz refresh/1ms on anything for cheap, it's nice and it's unfortunate that the hardware wasn't as potent as it was back in the days. We are seeing the beautifully tuned overclocking 9XX series Nvidia maxwell gen and the r9 from AMD and lately we have got some nice new cards such as the 980/ti, with the new Fury series and the refreshed 390/x series.
So personally, I have to decide. The 980ti aircooled is $1400 which is not worth it, so I can decide between..
The 980 has a chance at $900, which is an EVGA. The 390x with Crossfire later on, at $800, which is a Sapphire. I can also see the Asus poseidon 980, which will have a watercooled loop fitted to it and significantly overclocked, at $1100 NZD (would this performance be quite likely to the 980ti? Is 4gb enough on a Maxwell for 4K?).
Or the r9 390 Strix duc3 which I will wait out for, should be $650. I will most likely crossfire being $1400 with a 900w PSU.....Unfortunately SLi/Crossfire has issues - which I'm sure some opinions of for newbs like me, would be helpful.
As far as I'm concerned, I've had the most shocking and unforgivable Nvidia driver errors, SLi will not happen in my situation but single card for 1-2 years/sell/buy latest could do.
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So I'm deciding for the $1100 poseidon/$1400 r9 390s crossfire with the 900w PSU, what are your opinions. Another common topic of point; will these r9 390s going to suffocate in this enclosure.
As you can see, with a 3 slot card I'm going to need Asus Strix dcu3 as it's 2 slots which I won't mind at all :P The blue lane you can see under the card is the other PCI-E 16x
Overclocking wouldn't happen which would stunt these non-x variants even more. This is a big downside to getting the crossfire, no overclocking.
So I'll wrap this up. Will I need to be looking at minimum 2x390xs/2xfurys/2x980tis to have an enjoyable time? From what I understand so far crossfire r9 390s will have issues but be exceptional performance in titles (most modern AAA/AAs?) that support it. The Crossfire setup looks future proof and the 980 Poseidon will be an adventure on its own while avoiding sli crossfire. This is why I'm considering the poseidon.
"We were able to take the GPU now to 1530MHz Boost Clock which translates to a real-world in-game frequency of 1580MHz! This is the highest stable overclock we've ever achieved on a GeForce GTX 980 GPU based video card. That is 80MHz faster with liquid cooling, but the best part? The GPU temperature never exceeded 50c under liquid at 1580MHz."
Big decisions ahead. Thanks for your time and any input on this situation.
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