Please convince me about taking PowerColor?

[cerebus]

Yea, i have this PC on all the time (load during the day and idle late at night) and there a small increase in the bill of like R100, do you know how to work out how much 300W would cost me PM?

I'm not entirely sure how to work that out. You should certainly do some research though - making enough profit to buy a 780ti after a month with a single GPU non-asic setup seems highly unrealistic. Remember you'll be looking to Litecoin to make any money, and that's not worth close to R12000.

 

[crackersa]

quite a few people i know with powercolor and very happy (including myself 7970).

 

[Nikkel]

quite a few people i know with powercolor and very happy (including myself 7970).

Thanks @crackersa! But as you can see it turned into a mining thread now lmfao!

Anyway ordering it on Friday.

 

[Nikkel]

Did you get the PCS one with the backplate?

I see this one has a nice backplate as well! *grins like a kid in a candy shop*

 

[EmileS]

I see this one has a nice backplate as well! *grins like a kid in a candy shop*

That's what I was talking about! Damn that is soooo sexy!!! And for a budget card?!! No need to look beyond PowerColor in RSA.. Unless you have enough cash to get Toxic... Hehehehe get it?! No?... Okay...

 

[EmileS]

Now imagine if the R9 280X PCS also comes with the same PCS cooling and backplate?! Damn I'll be one happy guy when I get it!

 

[jacodebeer]

please excuse me for going off topic, but what is this coin mining you guys are talking about?

 

[Nikkel]

Haha!

You making me just as excited!!!

 

[Nikkel]

please excuse me for going off topic, but what is this coin mining you guys are talking about?

Have a read trough some of these threads on Carbs

 

[agentrfr]

Thanks @crackersa! But as you can see it turned into a mining thread now lmfao!

Anyway ordering it on Friday.

You are wasting your money.
If you are paying more than R100 per GH, then you are losing out.

GPU mining was a fad. 28nm ASIC mining is the future. You shouldnt be getting a video card expressly for mining any more

 

[Nikkel]

You are wasting your money.
If you are paying more than R100 per GH, then you are losing out.

GPU mining was a fad. 28nm ASIC mining is the future. You shouldnt be getting a video card expressly for mining any more

Noted bud, but I'm not into mining at all read the whole thread again...? Just gaming at 1080p

Also the 280x's 384bit bus and 3gb vram over the 270x's 256bit and 2gb vram AND the awesome bang for buck price makes it all the more worth while.

PLUS if Mantle, when released, does what its promising to do of using both cpu and gpu resources to spread the load where neccesary between the two when needed, then all the better for me with the 8core FX8350

To me, mining is a very well off person's sport which i cant afford

 

[EmileS]

Noted bud, but I'm not into mining at all read the whole thread again...? Just gaming at 1080p

Also the 280x's 384bit bus and 3gb vram over the 270x's 256bit and 2gb vram AND the awesome bang for buck price makes it all the more worth while.

PLUS if Mantle, when released, does what its promising to do of using both cpu and gpu resources to spread the load where neccesary between the two when needed, then all the better for me with the 8core FX8350

To me, mining is a very well off person's sport which i cant afford

So... What you're trying to say is... You're not going to sell me your R9 280X Matrix any time soon?!

 

[Nikkel]

So... What you're trying to say is... You're not going to sell me your R9 280X Matrix any time soon?!

I think you got me confused with @Rickster dude lol! I'm the OP who wants to buy a R9 280X

 

[EmileS]

I think you got me confused with @Rickster dude lol! I'm the OP who wants to buy a R9 280X

I did lol! I should read who said what and not guess who is most likely to say it! Hahaha

 

[Sonic2k]

How about I convince you to go Nvidia?

Seriously I agree.. I had to learn that the hard way

 

[Nikkel]

Seriously I agree.. I had to learn that the hard way

Which is...?

 

[agentrfr]

Personally I use only nVidia from this point onwards. ATI cards have set fire to themselves not once, but twice in two different PCs. One at home, one during a LAN. Neither card was overclocked and both built by different people. I love the physX that nVidia cards bring to the table in UT3 engine games that support it, even if it is "pointless". Borderlands 2 was lots of fun with it.

I'm getting a GTX 760 soon. Can't wait.

 

[EmileS]

Personally I use only nVidia from this point onwards. ATI cards have set fire to themselves not once, but twice in two different PCs. One at home, one during a LAN. Neither card was overclocked and both built by different people. I love the physX that nVidia cards bring to the table in UT3 engine games that support it, even if it is "pointless". Borderlands 2 was lots of fun with it.

I'm getting a GTX 760 soon. Can't wait.

Aaahhh you see... You must build your PC yourself!

AMD cards do tend to get hot, but if you haven't figured out how to setup fans in your case or have tampered with the fan itself or did some radical OCing, that should not happen.

 

[Nikkel]

Personally I use only nVidia from this point onwards. ATI cards have set fire to themselves not once, but twice in two different PCs. One at home, one during a LAN. Neither card was overclocked and both built by different people. I love the physX that nVidia cards bring to the table in UT3 engine games that support it, even if it is "pointless". Borderlands 2 was lots of fun with it.

I'm getting a GTX 760 soon. Can't wait.

I hear you buddy but to me at this moment, price is king! And there has been posts by guys who's opinions I value, not to say I dont value yours, but i would just like to try out something new from what I had in the past.

The price of the cheapest GTX 760 I (and trust me the GTX760 was serious candidate for me) could find is about exactly the same as the PowerColor's R9 280X and the latter is a *better* gpu.

 

[cerebus]

Aaahhh you see... You must build your PC yourself!

AMD cards do tend to get hot, but if you haven't figured out how to setup fans in your case or have tampered with the fan itself or did some radical OCing, that should not happen.

In general the thermals of AMD card are subpar. That's been the case for a long time. Especially with the crappy stock coolers. Nvidia's way ahead of them on this.