Which one of these please (graphic card choice)

[SPKmes]

How's it guys....just trying to get opinions on these cards...I will be getting one of these but which one is where I am not sure .. so...why not ask those better equipped to answer... a couple here are the same I think but I know how to turn on a PC and google...that is about it.

Sapphire Nitro R9 380X 4G GDDR5 PCI-E Video Card With back plate , Dual DVI+HDMI+ Display Ports , OC Version , 2 Years warranty

Gigabyte GV-R938XG1 GAMING-4GD R9 380X G1 Gaming OC Version , 4GB DDR5 PCI-E 3.0 Video Card , Dual DVI+HDMI+Displayport, 3 years warranty

EVGA GeForce GTX 960 FTW Version , 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 video card , with ACX 2.0+ , DVI+HDMI+ 3x DP ports , 3 Years warranty

Gigabyte GV-R938G1 GAMING-4GD R9 380 G1 Gaming OC Version , 4GB DDR5 PCI-E 3.0 Video Card , Dual DVI+HDMI+Displayport, 3 years warranty

Gigabyte GV-N960G1 GAMING-4GD GTX960 4G OC Version PCI-E Video card


Which one of these will I be playing with ????     I only play AH game wise...I will be getting a new power supply also as I only have 450W at present. But I can work that one out

[Brooke]

I like nVidia, but that preference is based on attitudes developed many years ago when I bought both Radeon and GeForce cards.  I have been happy with all of the nVidia cards I've purchased over the years and their associated drivers.  Most of my past displeasure with Radeon cards had to do with their driver/control-panel software (which I felt sucked long ago -- not sure what it is like today).  I suspect AMD cards are good, too, today.

Of the card manufacturers, I have had good experiences in more recent times with Gigabyte, MSI, and Zotac, and a while back with Sapphire, XFX, and PowerColor.

[Dragon Tamer]

How's it guys....just trying to get opinions on these cards...I will be getting one of these but which one is where I am not sure .. so...why not ask those better equipped to answer... a couple here are the same I think but I know how to turn on a PC and google...that is about it.

Sapphire Nitro R9 380X 4G GDDR5 PCI-E Video Card With back plate , Dual DVI+HDMI+ Display Ports , OC Version , 2 Years warranty

Gigabyte GV-R938XG1 GAMING-4GD R9 380X G1 Gaming OC Version , 4GB DDR5 PCI-E 3.0 Video Card , Dual DVI+HDMI+Displayport, 3 years warranty

EVGA GeForce GTX 960 FTW Version , 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 video card , with ACX 2.0+ , DVI+HDMI+ 3x DP ports , 3 Years warranty

Gigabyte GV-R938G1 GAMING-4GD R9 380 G1 Gaming OC Version , 4GB DDR5 PCI-E 3.0 Video Card , Dual DVI+HDMI+Displayport, 3 years warranty

Gigabyte GV-N960G1 GAMING-4GD GTX960 4G OC Version PCI-E Video card


Which one of these will I be playing with ????     I only play AH game wise...I will be getting a new power supply also as I only have 450W at present. But I can work that one out

Sapphire only sells AMD cards, they have a reputation for running very cool and quiet even under high load and (I think) they have a fan-less mode for when they are at idle or light loads.

Gigabyte coolers have been getting a reputation lately for developing noise per-maturely (bad fan baring) which you can RMA but still means that you are out a video card while they send another.

EVGA has a great reputation with their coolers and a great return policy. You can even mod the card (to some extent) and they will still take it back while under warranty.

What outputs you should get really depends on your monitor. A display port can be converted to any other standard with an adapter very easily (doing so with my system right now). I usually try to get a card that has a Display port, HDMI, DVI-D and DVI-I outputs. I'm not too picky beyond that and I don't use very high resolutions anyway.

Whether AMD or NVidia is down to what you need, what you want and what you are capable of. AMD is supposedly 15% more powerful than an NVidia card at the same price point, though I've only seen this in benchmarks and in real world applications the AMD will only be noticeably more powerful at higher resolutions and even then it is minimal. The NVidia card also comes with CUDA, Shadowplay and Physx (Shadowplay being the only one that AMD doesn't have a version of their own for).

As of right now AMD and NVidia drivers are about on par with each other, though some of NVidias latest drivers have been broken/buggy. AMD tends to support drivers for their cards for a longer period of time than NVidia. AMD drivers also lean very heavily on a single processor core (or at least they used to a year ago) so a dual core system is not reccomended with an AMD card but an i5 or higher will probably be fine (you might be able to get away with an i3). NVidia's drivers spread the load more evenly among the cores to reduce possible CPU bottlenecks.

[Bizman]

Based on benchmarks and reviews the two models you're choosing between perform equally well so it's more a question of personal preferences.

At the moment Nvidia uses much less power than AMD for the same end result. In layman's terms, more power=more heat=more cooling=more noise=coolers failing sooner. Plus it will show in your electricity bill.

[Brooke]

At the moment Nvidia uses much less power than AMD for the same end result.

That's another thing historically I have liked about nVidia cards.

[SPKmes]

awsome...cheers guys..... From an earlier thread skuzzy answered in I had a thought I was looking at the similar things but thought I would put up my options here....there is an $80 difference between the top and bottom price of these for pretty much the same thing. With the things you guys have answered here I will check out the these again especially looking at the cooling/power properties...and over all longevity...

[hgtonyvi]

Sapphire cards looks nice. Just make sure ur comp case can fit thos cards.

[TequilaChaser]

Sapphire cards looks nice. Just make sure ur comp case can fit thos cards.

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but Brooke ( edit: Bizman originally) makes a valid point regarding power load!

TC

[SPKmes]

I went with this...My MB is ASUS and since they were all comparable I thought I may as well stick to the name...(I like ASUS) makes my 7750 look like a toy hahaha

https://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Cards/STRIXGTX960DC2OC4GD5/



Funny thing is I put up the wrong asus card in my opening post