(05-17-2015, 01:18 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: I. Hate. AMD. GPUs.
No experience with anything that requires Catalyst Control Center has ever gone well for me. Whether it's because CCC thinks my nice 1080p monitor needs to be underscanned to make it look "correct" or when it decides it has compatibility issues with other software on my computer, I can expect the shitty software to crash at least 100 times a day, usually bringing the graphics driver with it.
In-game, I found that if you have a recent R9-series AMD card, you better turn on those LOD and LOD streaming settings or places like Coerthas and Mor Dhona will give crippling, unplayable lag because they make the GPU flip out.
...it doesn't help that a R9 290 consumes double the power and generates double the heat as an nvidia GTX 980. The lights in my apartment would flicker when I used AMD cards (that I've mostly pawned off by now).
I'll take that complaint, and raise you the problem with stock, reference 290X's. I've recently downvolted it to keep the temperature down, else that cruddy little single fan that AMD shipped with the first batch of cards whines up to such a point it's comparable to a washing machine, in regards to decibels.
Imagine sitting right next to a really loud, angry hair dryer every time your PC did something strenuous. A loud, angry hairdryer that had to limit what it could do because it was getting too hot.
A third-party fan arrived Friday, and heatsinks for the RAM arrive tomorrow, hoping to get to get a quiet, overclocked GPU again soon :3
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