Time and time again it's been proven that the very top card does not justify the extra cost. This is why I got the ASUS Matrix 980-p. I simply could not justify the Titan within myself knowing I might get a slight bump in graphics. Even with work paying for my system I could not justify it.
That Newegg PC only has a 1 year warranty--something I'd be very concerned about when dropping $3000 for a new PC. Check out Adamant Computers at www.adamant.com. You can custom build starting with a case type, and you get a 3 year warranty.
It's not the brand name on the power supply. It's the particular power supply you get. If the rig that the original poster was looking at had a Corsair AX, or HX, or even TX V2, I'd have said the power supply is fine. But CX is the sort of thing you might do if you have to fit a $500 budget even though you know it's inferior.
Antec likewise makes some very nice power supplies, such as the High Current Pro or TruePower Classic. But they also make some more budget oriented ones like the Basiq that I'd shy away from unless you need to fit a severe budget with a low power rig.
Neither of those brands make any power supplies that are genuinely junk, though, which is more than can be said for Cooler Master. You should stay far away from a Cooler Master GX series power supply, but that doesn't mean you can't use their V series. You buy a particular model, not just a logo on a box.
Originally posted by Leon1e With the Radeon Fury and Fury X announce last night, going for a titan seems weird before actual benchmarks.
After the pain of my dual 6950 build, I will never buy another AMD/ATI card, I don't care if it's half as much for twice the power, I hate their driver management and their software.
I've got a rig running right now that has a 980GTX, a 4790K, HDD+SDD, 7 case fans total and a AIO water cooler, comfortably on a 450W power supply. It is a very good Seasonic 450W mind you, and nothing is overclocked. I've never seen the overall power draw at the wall exceed 375W total, even while running stress tests.
With regard to Corsair - they used to be my go-to brand, and the above rig started out with an AX750i in it, one of their flagship models. I had to RMA that one twice, the third unit I just sold as new to get the Seasonic (and at that time I already had a good understanding for actual power draw of the system).
They were great about the RMA, but the fact that I had to RMA two units on an identical problem, of one of their flagship lines... and the issues with the RM series recently, and general "feeling" around the boards about a general decline in quality - I no longer recommend Corsair by brand alone, which I used to do with confidence and whole-heartedly before. Now it's gotta be by specific model only.
Originally posted by Leon1e With the Radeon Fury and Fury X announce last night, going for a titan seems weird before actual benchmarks.
After the pain of my dual 6950 build, I will never buy another AMD/ATI card, I don't care if it's half as much for twice the power, I hate their driver management and their software.
Originally posted by Leon1e With the Radeon Fury and Fury X announce last night, going for a titan seems weird before actual benchmarks.
After the pain of my dual 6950 build, I will never buy another AMD/ATI card, I don't care if it's half as much for twice the power, I hate their driver management and their software.
Thank you been saying this for years. :-D
don't mind em, the young ones always have to make their own mistakes to learn :P
telling them won't help, they have to witness it themselves (buy it, get the probs, buy a real gfx card again next time *G*)
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Originally posted by Leon1e With the Radeon Fury and Fury X announce last night, going for a titan seems weird before actual benchmarks.
After the pain of my dual 6950 build, I will never buy another AMD/ATI card, I don't care if it's half as much for twice the power, I hate their driver management and their software.
Your problem is the "dual" GPU part, not which brand of GPUs you went with.
Originally posted by Leon1eWith the Radeon Fury and Fury X announce last night, going for a titan seems weird before actual benchmarks.
After the pain of my dual 6950 build, I will never buy another AMD/ATI card, I don't care if it's half as much for twice the power, I hate their driver management and their software.
Your problem is the "dual" GPU part, not which brand of GPUs you went with.
Yup. I say the exact same thing, except it was dual GTX260s. I had to spend the money to see for myself, and now I know.
I also hate the nVidia Geforce experience and the fact that it ~always~ installs a bunch of crap I don't want, like a steroscopic picture viewer (wtf?), and can't auto-update itself, I always have to download it clean from the web site because the self-update seems to always fail. And the nVidia control panel layout is awful - the only thing worse is the Intel GPU control panel layout.
So yeah - drivers suck, but that's a problem for both, not just an AMD problem.
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It's not the brand name on the power supply. It's the particular power supply you get. If the rig that the original poster was looking at had a Corsair AX, or HX, or even TX V2, I'd have said the power supply is fine. But CX is the sort of thing you might do if you have to fit a $500 budget even though you know it's inferior.
Antec likewise makes some very nice power supplies, such as the High Current Pro or TruePower Classic. But they also make some more budget oriented ones like the Basiq that I'd shy away from unless you need to fit a severe budget with a low power rig.
Neither of those brands make any power supplies that are genuinely junk, though, which is more than can be said for Cooler Master. You should stay far away from a Cooler Master GX series power supply, but that doesn't mean you can't use their V series. You buy a particular model, not just a logo on a box.
After the pain of my dual 6950 build, I will never buy another AMD/ATI card, I don't care if it's half as much for twice the power, I hate their driver management and their software.
I've got a rig running right now that has a 980GTX, a 4790K, HDD+SDD, 7 case fans total and a AIO water cooler, comfortably on a 450W power supply. It is a very good Seasonic 450W mind you, and nothing is overclocked. I've never seen the overall power draw at the wall exceed 375W total, even while running stress tests.
With regard to Corsair - they used to be my go-to brand, and the above rig started out with an AX750i in it, one of their flagship models. I had to RMA that one twice, the third unit I just sold as new to get the Seasonic (and at that time I already had a good understanding for actual power draw of the system).
They were great about the RMA, but the fact that I had to RMA two units on an identical problem, of one of their flagship lines... and the issues with the RM series recently, and general "feeling" around the boards about a general decline in quality - I no longer recommend Corsair by brand alone, which I used to do with confidence and whole-heartedly before. Now it's gotta be by specific model only.
Thank you been saying this for years. :-D
Star Citizen – The Extinction Level Event
4/13/15 > ELE has been updated look for 16-04-13.
http://www.dereksmart.org/2016/04/star-citizen-the-ele/
Enjoy and know the truth always comes to light!
don't mind em, the young ones always have to make their own mistakes to learn :P
telling them won't help, they have to witness it themselves (buy it, get the probs, buy a real gfx card again next time *G*)
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Your problem is the "dual" GPU part, not which brand of GPUs you went with.
Yup. I say the exact same thing, except it was dual GTX260s. I had to spend the money to see for myself, and now I know.
I also hate the nVidia Geforce experience and the fact that it ~always~ installs a bunch of crap I don't want, like a steroscopic picture viewer (wtf?), and can't auto-update itself, I always have to download it clean from the web site because the self-update seems to always fail. And the nVidia control panel layout is awful - the only thing worse is the Intel GPU control panel layout.
So yeah - drivers suck, but that's a problem for both, not just an AMD problem.