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Hi everyone, so the time has come for me to look for a new graphics card. In a couple of weeks I am travelling to US (NYC and DC) for a holiday and I plan to get a graphics card over there where it is way cheaper - probably from newegg. The hotel does accept deliveries for patrons so it's all good on that level.
If I do buy a graphics card over there I'm only really looking at Asus as I have an Asus service centre about a 30 min drive from me and is on the way to Brisbane on the days I commute there. They do honour international products as I got my G53 I bought in HK fixed there where the motherboard had a failure. I don't want to mail back the graphics card if it doesn't work, hence why I only want to get an Asus branded card in the US.
My maximum budget is $540USD if I buy a card over there.
So the cards I'm looking at over there are;
the Asus DC2OC GTX780 - which I will probably get if there aren't any AIB designed coolers for the r9 290 out by the time I get over there. Also on all the reviews I've seen, it overclocks like a beast.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121779
and also the R9 290 which I would prefer to get for the performance as it does considerably better than the 780 in BF4 but I could not live with the heat and noise and I don't want to change the cooler on it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121807
If I were to buy the graphics card here, the GTX 780 is out of the question as it is too expensive here. The cheapest one I would consider is $630 for the Gigabyte windforce one. http://www.umart.com.au/newindex2.phtml?bid=4
I would end up getting an R9 290 here which seem to be between $470-$520 depending on the brand. I'm open to whatever brand here.
So if I decided not to buy over in the US, I would probably wait out till the 290 came out with an AIB designed cooler here.
I do play CoH2 as well and I read somewhere that AMD cards do terribly in that game. But I am leaning toward the 290 for price/performance, only the noise/heat is killing it for me.
Which one????
If I do buy a graphics card over there I'm only really looking at Asus as I have an Asus service centre about a 30 min drive from me and is on the way to Brisbane on the days I commute there. They do honour international products as I got my G53 I bought in HK fixed there where the motherboard had a failure. I don't want to mail back the graphics card if it doesn't work, hence why I only want to get an Asus branded card in the US.
My maximum budget is $540USD if I buy a card over there.
So the cards I'm looking at over there are;
the Asus DC2OC GTX780 - which I will probably get if there aren't any AIB designed coolers for the r9 290 out by the time I get over there. Also on all the reviews I've seen, it overclocks like a beast.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121779
and also the R9 290 which I would prefer to get for the performance as it does considerably better than the 780 in BF4 but I could not live with the heat and noise and I don't want to change the cooler on it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121807
If I were to buy the graphics card here, the GTX 780 is out of the question as it is too expensive here. The cheapest one I would consider is $630 for the Gigabyte windforce one. http://www.umart.com.au/newindex2.phtml?bid=4
I would end up getting an R9 290 here which seem to be between $470-$520 depending on the brand. I'm open to whatever brand here.
So if I decided not to buy over in the US, I would probably wait out till the 290 came out with an AIB designed cooler here.
I do play CoH2 as well and I read somewhere that AMD cards do terribly in that game. But I am leaning toward the 290 for price/performance, only the noise/heat is killing it for me.
Which one????