Which graphics card should I pick up?

[JEMC]

lucidium said:

JEMC said:

lucidium said:

JEMC said:

@High end cards discussion: Personally, before going with 760SLI or the Mars one, I'd go with a R9 290 with an aftermarket cooler. Not only it will cost about the same as the 760 SLI (at least at newegg Asus DirectCU II) but will give similar performance and use less power and less troubles with the drivers.

It would be worth the minor price difference to go with the 290X, but only with custom cooling, the reference card design runs far too hot.

I agree that AMD's reference cooler is... to be polite, not up to the task. That's why I linked the Asus card (which I've read a review and not only is quieter and cooler, but even overclocked uses a bit less power than the reference card)

About the minor price difference, there's a moment where you have to put a stop. You always can get something better for a bit more.

On price generally yes but over here in japan and according to a friend of mine in Canada the difference is litterally a few dollars

Here in Spain the difference is important.

Looking only at one well known store, PcComponentes.com, the cheapest 290 with aftermarket cooler can be found for 385 € (Sapphire) yet the cheapest 290X, that comes with the reference cooler, is 475 € (Sapphire again) and climbs to 520 € with an aftermarket cooler (Gigabyte). To get a better picture, the GTX 780 can be found for 445 € and the 780 Ti for 609 €.

Maybe in Japan and Canada there are more bitcoin miners than here.