Been looking for something around this price point (+- $100) to upgrade the graphics card in my son's PC....any insights as to whether or not this is would be a good choice? Thanks.
^ I have the same question - looking to start gathering some parts for a gaming build project that my son and I can put together - I was even thinking of picking up 2 to crossfire.
I doubt you'll find anything better at this price but you're going to have to read reviews of the games you want to play @ resolution needed to decide if it's a cost effective solution or throwing too little money at the issue.
Instead of crossfire I'd rather get the best single card you can find for ~ $150, then you can come back later when that card has dropped in price and add a 2nd one as a future upgrade...
Besides, using two of them, being double height and wanting to leave an empty space between the two for good ventilation of the one on top (unless you have a strong side panel fan in just the right spot), would eat up FIVE motherboard slots.
Correct, if you check the history this deal is very appreciable for its low price and *No Rebate* for 1080p early-teen (entry) gaming. You'd need to add $25 and work a rebate to see this level in like the GTX750Ti.
As to reviews there aren't great recent ones I looked more for the 750 Ti as those are newer and pit the two in competition. This German site is now a year old, but their graphs are nice as with/without AA settings though stacked with a bunch of Uber OC'd 750Ti that are normally an additional $35-50 more than the $75 (and include a rebate), Truly 3-6% above what is a reference clocked 260X when they are providing decent playable (FpS 30-50). I would say 10% OC on this XFX is not a hard thing too unearth and really add to it BfB. Honestly, I see performance is somewhere middle ground between what shown in the information below. And remember such tests are in all likelyhood on a i7, so some of the Higher settings don't scale on more pedestrian CPU's.
I opted $10 cheaper for a better performance rated card.
While I like the $65 price, regrettably that PNY 750 1Gb is not a better performance card than this 260X 2Gb for gaming. I agree moving from iGPU to this is a new world, but for 1080p gaming the extra $10 would have been worth anteing up.
If you're looking for the best gaming BfB, and not adverse to a rebate (healthy) there's an MSI R7 265 for $93 -AR$30 (includes shipping of $3) is the best under $100 final cost.
Either is overkill for spanning two 720p projectors for a "HTPC", unless you're gaming on them.
Projectors didn't catch that.
I thought that also but at $65 it's a good price for Nvidia Maxwell and GDDR5.
Drop to a 730 or 740 those aren't great purchases... as still on Kepler and pay mightily to get a GDDR5 version (though you don't need it) . Going much lower and gets to be diminishing returns.
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Instead of crossfire I'd rather get the best single card you can find for ~ $150, then you can come back later when that card has dropped in price and add a 2nd one as a future upgrade...
Besides, using two of them, being double height and wanting to leave an empty space between the two for good ventilation of the one on top (unless you have a strong side panel fan in just the right spot), would eat up FIVE motherboard slots.
As to reviews there aren't great recent ones I looked more for the 750 Ti as those are newer and pit the two in competition. This German site is now a year old, but their graphs are nice as with/without AA settings though stacked with a bunch of Uber OC'd 750Ti that are normally an additional $35-50 more than the $75 (and include a rebate), Truly 3-6% above what is a reference clocked 260X when they are providing decent playable (FpS 30-50). I would say 10% OC on this XFX is not a hard thing too unearth and really add to it BfB. Honestly, I see performance is somewhere middle ground between what shown in the information below. And remember such tests are in all likelyhood on a i7, so some of the Higher settings don't scale on more pedestrian CPU's.
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/artikel/hardware/grafikkarten/32233-drei-semipassive-geforce-gtx-750-ti-im-test.html
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1044?vs=1130
IDK for the cost of two ($150) I might rather get into a 280 or 285 and not have the worry of C/F personally.
This XFX Double D R9 280 3Gb is now just $154 after 10% off promo code EMCKAAN22, ends 10/8 and a $30 Rebate, $4 shipping included.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150706
260X C/F is honestly close and some point better at 1080p, but for me when either sides dual card set-ups don't work it's not fun. Here a year ago is a 260X Cross-Fire and a 280 it illustrates what I mean, and their conclusion discusses the same.
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/6617/sapphire-radeon-r7-260x-2gb-oc-in-crossfire-video-card-review/index.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127790
For regular (non-gaming) production work, like watching/editing video on two monitors that should be plenty, and a great choice.
Projectors didn't catch that.
I thought that also but at $65 it's a good price for Nvidia Maxwell and GDDR5.
Drop to a 730 or 740 those aren't great purchases... as still on Kepler and pay mightily to get a GDDR5 version (though you don't need it) . Going much lower and gets to be diminishing returns.
Thank you!