Appropriate gfx card for monitor 3440*1440

[akzy]

Hey all,

I'm almost at the point now where im gonna bite the bullet and shell out £700-£900 on new monitor and graphics card. I'm totally sold on the 21:9 3440*1440 monitor design and AOC are releasing a really nice one for £500 in September in the UK.

This leaves me with £200-£400 for a graphics card. I will be doing a lot of gaming on this so suggestions please. APPARENTLY because I have an MSI mobo (z87 gd65) I can get more power to an MSI gfx card to do ketamine or something?? Is it really worth going MSI just for this?

Ta Muchly.

tl;dr Need graphics card suggestion for max £400 to drive 3440*1440 monitor. Coolio.

 

[JR23]

Directly answering your question - a Sapphire R9 290X TRI-X because that's probably the best 290X you can get for £400 max at this moment in time and well you can't get a 780Ti for that money and the extra 1gb of vram will be handy for that resolution anyway.


Not answering your question at all. Personally i'd spend slightly less money on a monitor and more on a GPU. Your pixel to power ratio is all messed up and coming down to 2560x1440 would not only perhaps provide benefits of the mainstream aspect ratio and more proven superior panels than the LG/AOC but it would also free up some cash for more graphics hardware so you can push out the crazy pixels with ease. And on the subject of cash in your current position you would be bonkers not to hold onto it until nVidia at least have their new maxwell cards out namely the 870/880/880Ti. And because they don't exist yet it is impossible to recommend them but they should provide a better price to performance ratio than the current cards and that can't be a bad thing.

JR

 

[NeverBackDown]

Hey all,

I'm almost at the point now where im gonna bite the bullet and shell out £700-£900 on new monitor and graphics card. I'm totally sold on the 21:9 3440*1440 monitor design and AOC are releasing a really nice one for £500 in September in the UK.

This leaves me with £200-£400 for a graphics card. I will be doing a lot of gaming on this so suggestions please. APPARENTLY because I have an MSI mobo (z87 gd65) I can get more power to an MSI gfx card to do ketamine or something?? Is it really worth going MSI just for this?

Ta Muchly.

tl;dr Need graphics card suggestion for max £400 to drive 3440*1440 monitor. Coolio.

God whenever people say anything like this it just kills a part of me inside. I have no clue how this started but even when i first started getting into computers this similar saying was around. Makes no sense..

Anyway for a 3440x1440 screen you are gonna need a card in the R9 290/ GTX 780 range at minimum. Even with those cards i am positive that you will still have to turn some settings down in order to run modern games.

 

[shambles1980]

i would let you chose the card you think is most powerful.
but if anything goes wrong Gigabyte have one of the best RMA services around. so they are a good place to start looking as your base line.
a gigabyte r9 290x may just about be in your max budget range of £400
you may need to shop around to get it at that price.. seen em for like £420 most places but im sure they will be fopr around or just under £400 if you search long enough..

the rma value is something i would definitely be holding pretty high if i was spending £400 on a gpu.

as a long term sapphire gpu user here, i do like sapphire but the rma with them is terrible.
they insist you go through the place you bought it, and if that place insists it only does 30 days warranty then the rest is with the mfr it gets quite messy.
thats why i still have my 7850 even though it really needs an rma.
Basically they want you to pay postage to get it shipped to and from asia and even then they wont guarantee to fix it.
so really id be better off selling it as faulty and putting the postage money towards a second hand 7970..
So sapphire are great unless you need to rma after the shop says its warranty is over and you have to use the mfr warranty.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

I would recommend going for a 290/290x since AMD performs better in resolutions higher than 1080p for some reason. Also I've set up eyefinity a couple of times. It was easy ^^

Whatever you do don't go for an MSI 290x gaming. (A guy I'm chatting with from sweden got his 290x gaming and it runned as hot as a refernce card with MSI saying it's normal)

 

[barnsley]

Sapphire tri-x 290x if you plan on watercooling at some point (reference PCB) or a Vapor-x 290 if you don't.

 

[akzy]

God whenever people say anything like this it just kills a part of me inside. I have no clue how this started but even when i first started getting into computers this similar saying was around. Makes no sense..

Anyway for a 3440x1440 screen you are gonna need a card in the R9 290/ GTX 780 range at minimum. Even with those cards i am positive that you will still have to turn some settings down in order to run modern games.

It's what all the cool kids are doing

 

[akzy]

Sorry to double post but just saw this...
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-167-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752
Power colour 290x with free 8GB 2400Mhz ram kit for £380... anyone heard good stuff about the powercolour 290x?

 

[TPC]

The Powercolor card is good enough for the price, altough at summer temps like 30°C+ outside it starts throtteling aswell (source: Brother)

 

[shambles1980]

im prety sure powercolour use near enough reference design. (always used to back when i used them)
so they are decent cards although may be a bit warmer than you would want them to be.
however i havent used a powercolour in a LONG time. so you may want some other oppinions.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Sorry to double post but just saw this...
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-167-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752
Power colour 290x with free 8GB 2400Mhz ram kit for £380... anyone heard good stuff about the powercolour 290x?

I would get it. The new powercolor cards are very good(the PCS+ coolers that is). They cool better than most other 290/290x cards. They are probably the 2nd best cooler behind the Tri-x/Vapor-x cards adn lightning. I would recommend it and the extra free ram is always nice too. If you can find the previous Sapphire cards i mentioned for the same price i would opt for that over the PCS+ cooler however.