Its time to do Upgrade Dance

[HavocXphere]

You don't by any chance have experience of running a R9 280X on a 550W power supply? Or know of someone who successfully managed it.

They can pull close to 400W under load and the rest of the system can easily stack 100W so I don't see 550 being feasible.

Plus pushing PSUs that close to the limit sucks in multiple ways anyway.

[hideinlight]

Okay so Dragon Age is ravaging my PC frame rate, anybody playing this with the R9 270 \ 270x or GTx 660 \760 want to report back.

Latest Driver first. Or you tried that already?
Also Windows7 or Windows 8?

[B1nary]

Yup newest driver i can get avg 30fps on open terrain medium settings

[hideinlight]

Judging from what I see with people with SLi setups not even hitting the 48fps mark, that's about what you can expect.
Not much is gonna change until DirectX 12 comes along.

[B1nary]

I don't think dx 12 will support win 7 in any case so mantle will gain some ground there. mmm The game seems poorly optimized for sli setups in any case.

Anybody know when the next range of GPU's are set for release next year?

[Isengard]

Yup newest driver i can get avg 30fps on open terrain medium settings

I haven't run the benchmark but on my 7850 I'm getting 30 - 50 fps on mixed detail settings, mix of medium and high with mesh on high and textures on ultra. For the most part the fps hover in the mid 40's while playing. This is with the beta drivers.