(03-05-2014, 03:06 AM)KazumiZorah Wrote: Upgrading to 4670k, z87 mobo, 280x/770 and new psu is within my budget. According to an online calculator 750w is more than enough.
(03-04-2014, 05:42 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Do not buy the 280X. They are horribly overpriced right now due to the bitcoin craze. Get a GTX 770 or 760 instead. Hell you could even get a 750 or 750 TI and that would be fine for your needs depending on what your budget is.
I don't know.. from ocuk both come under the same price range and a number of comparisons online seem to suggest they are about equal leaning towards the 770 being very slightly better on a number of demanding games. Although many of those reviews compared the 280x 870Mhz with the GTX770 1Ghz
In comparing http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-324-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1842 with http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-179-GW&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1750 , the price of the 770 is slightly lower (~40 euros, not bad) and the specifications are fairly similar. 770 has slightly higher core, boost clocks and higher memory clock while the 280x has 3gb of vram instead of 2 and memory interface is 384-bit as opposed to 256-bit. Clearly I have little idea what these specifications mean, I'm just pointing them out. Lastly nvidia cards describe support for "Physx" and CUDA" and the 770 lists support for DX 11 and OGL 4. On the other hand the 280x lists no support for the former or equivalent but supports DX 11.2 and OGL 4.2, is this anything significant?
Edit: Should point out the 280x is factory OC and the 770 is stock. So maybe....
EDIT 2: should have asked this earlier but how much should the 4670k OC on average to benefit Dolphin and what's a great air cooler to do it?
Just wanted to add. I'm running an EVGA GTX 770 and it's a good card. Runs very well in dolphin although my current CPU is holding me back (FX 6300@4.5ghz). Replacing that hopefully tomorrow with an i5 4670k and an MSI z87-GD65 Gaming I ordered. I plan on running that, 2 sata 7200 rpm drives and a solid state drive off a Seasonic 650watt PSU and it should run perfectly fine with watts to spare. 750 is overkill unless you plan on going SLI or Crossfire later.
For an Air cooler if you want cheap but good the cooler master hyper 212 is very popular. I had one but swapped it out for an AIO water cooler to cope with the heat of this overclocked AMD.