Recent content by Samuel256

Thanks a lot everyone, has been some very useful information given. Having a quick browse it looks like the 970 is just cheaper than the 290 generally and if I can carry it over through the next upgrade of CPU +/- motherboard then it's much better value. Thank you all again.

The PSU is a OCZ 650W ZS Series, I can't find the 12V rail sadly, so I can't tell you what the amps are, sorry.

Apologies, I'm currently running: AMD PHENOM II X4 940 (3.0GHz) 8GB DDR2 Corsair RAM 650W Power Supply Motherboard as above

Hi all, I'm interested in getting a new graphics card that will last awhile and am interested in the R9. However,my computer is 5 years old now and the mother board is a ASUS M3N72-D with 2 PCI-E and 2 PCI ports. This is the first time replacing a graphics card so wanted to check that it would...