Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury X 4G D5 Video Card, AU $856.07 Shipped with AmEx @ Amazon

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LBoward Woward on 02/10/2015 - 01:53 amazon.com (239 clicks)
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Hey guys! So I'm in the process of building a new rig and over the last few days have been doing a lot of research on the parts I'm going to be using. I bought some 27" monitors during the eBay 15% off sale (going to have a triple monitor setup), but couldn't find much else I couldn't find at MSY for cheaper.

I've chosen for my rig to sport the recently released GTX 980 Ti competitor, the Radeon Fury X in Crossfire arrangement (so 2 of them). Although the GTX 980 Ti is marginally better in most respects for single monitor/lesser resolution gaming, the Fury X excels at larger resolutions, as can be seen from these reviews, http://www.eteknix.com/amd-r9-fury-x-4gb-graphics-card-cross… and http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/7226/amd-radeon-r9-fury-vi… and therefore perfect for my needs! I couldn't find any bargains during the eBay sale, so undercut's 15% off AmEx post could not have come at a better time.

The Sapphire is the cheapest model from what I can see, and the R9 Fury X doesn't differ in build by manufacturer because all of the current ones have a reference design.

For $856.07, it's a bargain (with a saving of close to $200)! It's $1095 at MSY (IF you can find it, as it's only being sold at specific stores in limited quantities), and $1199 + $19 shipping at Scorptec. The Gigabyte version is slightly cheaper at $1040.

I haven't checked, but you may be able to get a good deal on other graphics cards, e.g. the GTX 980 Ti if you'd prefer that, but I honestly haven't checked. Let me know if you do!

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  FotherM on 02/10/2015 - 01:57

  Three 27 inch… neck pain?
  Would of waited for the acer xr34

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    tyler.durden on 02/10/2015 - 07:50

    curve screens are crap

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      FotherM on 02/10/2015 - 15:51

      Not the xr34

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        tyler.durden on 02/10/2015 - 16:28

        why?

        I know curve tv are crap and screen would be crap too

        since u need to sit in the center to get best viewing angle..

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        FotherM on 02/10/2015 - 17:27

        @tyler.durden:

        Three 27 inch monitors… is a better viewing angle?

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        tyler.durden on 02/10/2015 - 21:02

        @FotherM:

        I didn't know you were comparing it to the 3 screens.

        I was referring to just one screen..

        It would also be awkward to watch movies from an off centre angle with those curve screens.

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        ProspectiveDarkness on 02/10/2015 - 21:08

        @tyler.durden:

        But if it's a monitor, do you really need to worry about being off-centre? It's not a TV for the living room…

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        tyler.durden on 02/10/2015 - 21:12

        @ProspectiveDarkness:

        It does for me,
        cos my monitor is in my bedroom.

        I used my monitor to watch movies / tv while lying in my bed (which is off centre)

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  phobo on 02/10/2015 - 02:05

  +2

  You should have gone the 980TI , not an nvidia fanboy but with the overclocking difference between the 2 cards the 980TI wins hands down. Also Gsync is so much better than freesync at the moment.

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    AreYouAWiiizard on 02/10/2015 - 04:20

    +3

    Gsync has price premium on monitors.

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      phobo on 02/10/2015 - 08:12

      +7

      I mean if hes going to be getting 3x 27'' monitors and a ~900 card i don't think the ~$100-$150 premium for gsync would be much of a problem.

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    Boward Woward on 02/10/2015 - 17:16

    +1

    That was close! OK, so I've gone with Nvidia my entire life, my last GPU being the GTX 680 for when Diablo III came out (overkill I know), but from what I saw the R9 Fury X handled higher resolutions. That is, until I did more research and found that the 980 Ti actually outperforms the Fury X in SLI/Crossfire configuration (http://www.techspot.com/review/1033-gtx-980-ti-sli-r9-fury-x…).

    I went to Amazon to cancel my order which was being processed, but thankfully it looks like it's been cancelled. Ordered a couple of Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming GPUs (which I still save $200 on), which have the best OCing capability apart from the ones you have to LN2 cool from what I've read.

    Also, I obviously didn't do enough research because apparently Freesync doesn't even support triple monitors at the moment.

    Thanks heaps for the heads up!

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  AreYouAWiiizard on 02/10/2015 - 04:41

  980Tis look cheap too

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  incipient on 02/10/2015 - 07:53

  +4

  I would get a placeholder card (970?) and wait for Pascal cards next year. They're promising incredible transistor counts (~17bn) and plenty of vram (up to 16GB) for 4k resolution.

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  thedriver on 02/10/2015 - 23:19

  That's what I'm doing