| Shido said: I have a HD 7950 at 1150/1480, its performs like a 7970 Ghz, in my country computer hardware its very expensive, and someone its willing to buy my card for 400$, I have a friend that will travel to USA in the coming months so I was thinking of selling mine and buy a 280X but right now I'm not sure, I really liked the 290X and the 290 looks like the best deal but temps are horrid, here you have to add like 10 degrees more to reviews temps to get the real ones. Do you think its worth waiting for 290 prices to come down or with better coolers in the next 2-3 months? or Maxwell will blow away competition on price/perf on realease? I would like to buy a better monitor(1080p 60hz here) too. What to do? |
The 280X is a 7970, so no point selling your card if your 7950 is already performing at that level and replacing it with the 280X.
The 290X however is a steal. Titan-like performance for half the price, what more could you want? :)
Whether the 290X comes down in price is actually, completely up to nVidia, at-least initially, if nVidia does massive price cuts, AMD will have to respond in kind, that's great news for us. - However buying cards just after a launch is always more expensive than a couple months down the road.
All said and done though, these are high-end pieces of kit, I wouldn't recommend such a card unless you are running a 1080P 120/144hz panel or 1440P and beyond, you would literally be wasting money unless you are using the hardware for tasks other than gaming of course.
As for coolers. I water cool, so noise is never a factor in my purchase decisions, however you can still buy an aftermarket air cooler if noise is a concern and bolt it to whatever reference card you buy now.
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