New to this: Setting up a high-end gaming PC...

[JammyTactics]

[profJim]

Re: New to this: Setting up a high-end gaming PC...

Welcome to the forum.

As I recall the GTX 970 performance drop only happens when you need to access the last 500MB of gpu memory.

A GTX 980 single or SLI setup does not have this problem.

[profJim]

Re: New to this: Setting up a high-end gaming PC...

For those who aren't familiar with the GTX 970 memory performance issues, check out Frame Rating: Looking at GTX 970 Memory Performance | PC Perspective.

The comments by many of their readers is highly entertaining to say the least.

You will find similar review results at other top tier gpu review sites.

[LivingNexus]

[JammyTactics]

Re: New to this: Setting up a high-end gaming PC...

For those who aren't familiar with the GTX 970 memory performance issues, check out Frame Rating: Looking at GTX 970 Memory Performance | PC Perspective.

The comments by many of their readers is highly entertaining to say the least.

You will find similar review results at other top tier gpu review sites.

Hi again,

Thanks for that, sorry I hadn't replied until now I've been pretty busy all weekend to be honest. But I'll have a look at that for sure.

Thanks again for the advice (:

[JammyTactics]

Re: New to this: Setting up a high-end gaming PC...

Hey,

Again sorry I didn't get back, and yeah I haven't really looked at the R9 290X(s), was thinking more about MSI's afterburner, or does that just apply with the Motherboard? I'm not sure myself I hadn't looked into it that much, however your idea does sound decent to be honest, considering a GTX 980 has considerably more performance than the 970, so on an SLI Scale going with the R9 would be a much cheaper alternative with a slight performance difference to SLI GTX 980, which is still considerably more than the GTX 970, so I'm going to look into prices but I'll do a little more research before finalising what I get.

Again thanks for getting back (:

[profJim]

Re: New to this: Setting up a high-end gaming PC...

The MSI Afterburner utility should work with nearly all video card brands and models.

In a few cases you might need to use the vendor's overclocking utility to get the most out of your video card.

Naturally if you buy an MSI video card you can access all of the video card's overclocking options.

Keep in mind that higher end AMD cards require significantly more power and are probably much louder than comparable Nvidia cards.

The AMD cards probably offer more bang for your bucks (or pounds) if you don't mind the higher electricity costs and noise levels.

[JammyTactics]

Re: New to this: Setting up a high-end gaming PC...

The MSI Afterburner utility should work with nearly all video card brands and models.

In a few cases you might need to use the vendor's overclocking utility to get the most out of your video card.

Naturally if you buy an MSI video card you can access all of the video card's overclocking options.

Keep in mind that higher end AMD cards require significantly more power and are probably much louder than comparable Nvidia cards.

The AMD cards probably offer more bang for your bucks (or pounds) if you don't mind the higher electricity costs and noise levels.

[LivingNexus]

Re: New to this: Setting up a high-end gaming PC...

I looked into running the other options, and the MSI R9 290X Crossfire is actually worse in performace to the MSI GTX 970 SLI

I'm actually having a hard time finding raw data in terms of frames-per-second performance, but this seems to hold up (although at higher resolutions a single 290X seems to perform slightly better than a single 970, but not enough to really matter). The space and cooling concerns you brought up are completely legitimate and are probably going to be the deciding factor regardless, unless you want to buy an aftermarket cooler.

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