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Watching these kinds of threads for ten years now still hasn't gotten old. 
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NVIDIA is basically one click and done when setting the refresh rate. The game profiling also has an option to force games to use the fastest available refresh rate, so games like Crysis that don't allow you to change the refresh rate will run at 120Hz/144Hz. Best part is this can be set globally. No need to create a profile for each game you haveThis is killing me too. 290x for cheap or a 780.
AMD is hell for me on a non-standard displays. forcing 120hz is like pulling teeth.
Just some food for thought...after kinda rabble-rousing a bit and being an Nvidia fanboy on this thread, I was convinced by several that AMD R9 290 was legitimately the way to go. Better cost, better performance. No brainer. I went ahead and bought a Sapphire Tri-X OC, which based on my research was a great card, but kinda blew up the significant cost saving...I found it for $430 on the egg, so a good $70 cost savings vs a similar 780.
Long story short, I could never get the 14.4 drivers working well and I couldn't even get a modest overclock on the Tri-X without blackscreens. I went through everything short of a re-image to get it working semi-stably, but would still get occasional blackscreens when coming out of sleep or when loading games. The performance was nice, but these intermittent problems were driving me nuts.
Here are my stock 3dMark scores with this setup:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/3094212
I talked to NewEgg and they let me RMA the card and exchange it for a 780 FTW (clocked 20Ghz slower than the Tri-X OC). I got rid of the old AMD drivers, installed Nvidia stuff and have not had any problems at all. Also, it seems to perform somewhat better, even at stock:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/3176320
Anyhow, I couldn't be happier. I legitimately tried to like the AMD and give it a chance. It MAY have been fine/stable if I went ahead and reinstalled Windows...but this install is only a few months old. I did use DriverFusion to get rid of driver artifacts, etc...So I think I gave it a pretty decent effort to get the AMD card stable.
Anyhow, I know that's just one guy's experience, but it is as objective as I can be.
what program were you using to overclock ? msi after burner? or trix?
but good luck with your new purchase
Just some food for thought...after kinda rabble-rousing a bit and being an Nvidia fanboy on this thread, I was convinced by several that AMD R9 290 was legitimately the way to go. Better cost, better performance. No brainer. I went ahead and bought a Sapphire Tri-X OC, which based on my research was a great card, but kinda blew up the significant cost saving...I found it for $430 on the egg, so a good $70 cost savings vs a similar 780.
Long story short, I could never get the 14.4 drivers working well and I couldn't even get a modest overclock on the Tri-X without blackscreens. I went through everything short of a re-image to get it working semi-stably, but would still get occasional blackscreens when coming out of sleep or when loading games. The performance was nice, but these intermittent problems were driving me nuts.
Here are my stock 3dMark scores with this setup:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/3094212
I talked to NewEgg and they let me RMA the card and exchange it for a 780 FTW (clocked 20Ghz slower than the Tri-X OC). I got rid of the old AMD drivers, installed Nvidia stuff and have not had any problems at all. Also, it seems to perform somewhat better, even at stock:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/3176320
Anyhow, I couldn't be happier. I legitimately tried to like the AMD and give it a chance. It MAY have been fine/stable if I went ahead and reinstalled Windows...but this install is only a few months old. I did use DriverFusion to get rid of driver artifacts, etc...So I think I gave it a pretty decent effort to get the AMD card stable.
Anyhow, I know that's just one guy's experience, but it is as objective as I can be.
Funny thing. I bought a 290X Tri-X OC and it was a nightmare to get it to perform. I did five (yes, five!) clean Windows installs using two different computers and two different drivers (13.12 WHQL and 14.4 WHQL). Nothing worked, I was getting 10-30% less performance than I should have. Then, as a last resort I gave the new 14.6 betas a go and bang: the performance was there. Not an isolated case either, have seen several similar stories already.
I also reran all of my earlier tests (that I quoted in this thread way back) comparing my 290X Tri-X @1150/1500 with my reference 780 @1176/1725 using the fresh beta drivers on both. The result? The 290X won by less than 1%. So it takes a rather high clocked 290X to beat an average clocked 780 across those 12 benchmarks that I used. The 290 would need an even higher OC.
That being said, I sold my 780 and am now in the AMD camp. My main focus right now is on games that like the Hawaii chip, besides I like to keep myself up to date on the daily experience on both brands. And the Tri-X seems like a nice design.
the best 290 is a reference with a water block. One of my more recent runs I can clock higher as well.
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2123899
This is killing me too. 290x for cheap or a 780.
AMD is hell for me on a non-standard displays. forcing 120hz is like pulling teeth.
If pricing were equal I'd buy the 780, but at current prices the 290 is the clear winner. I just got the MSI 290 for $270 brand new, that's a better than average deal but the coin miners are dumping these things for rock bottom prices.
"brand new"Wow, what a sick sick price.
"brand new"
The 14.6's apparently have 10bit color support.
If pricing were equal I'd buy the 780, but at current prices the 290 is the clear winner. I just got the MSI 290 for $270 brand new, that's a better than average deal but the coin miners are dumping these things for rock bottom prices.
No doubt that miners are dropping these for big losses. The boat had already sailed so far into outer space on mining last year (heck, the boat had already sailed by late 2012) I have no idea how people thought they would make (or even recoup) hardware costs.... but I digress. You don't need to be an expert in trading models and trends to have known that, not even mentioning the risks inherent in crypto exchanges. There is no better time to buy a used 290/290x.
I just picked up a reference 290x for $265 (guy was selling a lot of them with a "make offer" deal and can't believe he accepted; he'd stated the lot was bought for "compatibility testing for software"... hah, yeah right). When miners were driving the price of these cards through the roof, gamers were pretty angry -- but I guess there's a silver lining to everything.
looks like you really don't know much about mining, mining on GPUs hit an all time high in nov/dec/January(2014). Enough so that one could get ROI on a 290/290x/280x within a months time![]()
"brand new"