Would like some comments on two GPU choices:
Sapphire Radeon Nitro RX590 8 GB DDR5
vs.
MSI Radeon RX 570 Direct x 8 GB DDR5
My thoughts:
Nitro has pretty lights
I owned an HD6670 Sapphire back in the day and it was reliable, so I feel good about going back to that brand. But it's got the usual 80 or 85% satisfaction rate from users (adding 4 and 5 ratings togrether and comparing to 1 and 2 ratings added together).
This particular MSI Radeon has 86 ratings at Newegg and five stars, that is significant. It is in fact one of the best ratings I've seen on a gpu that wasn't just three or four users.
The winning gpu will end up on an ASUS x470 Pro mobo with a Ryzen 5 2600X cpu and 32 gigs of G.Skill Ram.
I should explain that this is already built. I'm using it as I write. It has an R9-380 card in it from my previous build. The card that I hard ordered was an ASUS Radeon RX 580 O4G Dual-fan OC Edition GDDR5. It crashed during 3dmark tests. My only comment on that is that the R9-380 is doing a better job running on the ASUS RX580's drivers than the ASUS RX 580 did. The R9-380 does NOT crash during 3dmark tests. (the rx580 turns the whole screen green) This is Win 10 installed on M.2 on the board.
Newegg is refunding the $ on the ASUS RX580 because they have no more in stock. So the good news is that this is my chance to get an 8 gb card instead of the 4 gb on the original.
But I would prefer to have had the original install work so I could move on to other things.
My head says go with the choice that is making the most people happy but I must admit I'm liking the lights on my RAM and mobo more than I thought I would. They work very nicely with the screen saver. But it is huge aggro not to have a new card work as you all know.
FWIW I prefer to stick with AMD chipset options.
Thanks,
Greg N
Sapphire Radeon Nitro RX590 8 GB DDR5
vs.
MSI Radeon RX 570 Direct x 8 GB DDR5
My thoughts:
Nitro has pretty lights
I owned an HD6670 Sapphire back in the day and it was reliable, so I feel good about going back to that brand. But it's got the usual 80 or 85% satisfaction rate from users (adding 4 and 5 ratings togrether and comparing to 1 and 2 ratings added together).
This particular MSI Radeon has 86 ratings at Newegg and five stars, that is significant. It is in fact one of the best ratings I've seen on a gpu that wasn't just three or four users.
The winning gpu will end up on an ASUS x470 Pro mobo with a Ryzen 5 2600X cpu and 32 gigs of G.Skill Ram.
I should explain that this is already built. I'm using it as I write. It has an R9-380 card in it from my previous build. The card that I hard ordered was an ASUS Radeon RX 580 O4G Dual-fan OC Edition GDDR5. It crashed during 3dmark tests. My only comment on that is that the R9-380 is doing a better job running on the ASUS RX580's drivers than the ASUS RX 580 did. The R9-380 does NOT crash during 3dmark tests. (the rx580 turns the whole screen green) This is Win 10 installed on M.2 on the board.
Newegg is refunding the $ on the ASUS RX580 because they have no more in stock. So the good news is that this is my chance to get an 8 gb card instead of the 4 gb on the original.
But I would prefer to have had the original install work so I could move on to other things.
My head says go with the choice that is making the most people happy but I must admit I'm liking the lights on my RAM and mobo more than I thought I would. They work very nicely with the screen saver. But it is huge aggro not to have a new card work as you all know.
FWIW I prefer to stick with AMD chipset options.
Thanks,
Greg N