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Processor | FX 8320 @4.2 | i7 2600 @3.8 | Xeon W3670 @ 3.6 |
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Motherboard | Asus Sabertooth R2.0 | Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe | Gigabyte X58-UD7 |
Cooling | Zalman Performa 10+ | Zalman Performa 11+ | Zalman Performa 10+ |
Memory | Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 32GB @ 1866 | Corsair Vengeance 32GB @1866 | Samsung 24GB @ 1600 |
Video Card(s) | XFX Radeon 390x | Zotac GTX 1070 AMP Extreme | Zotac GTX 980 AMP Extreme |
Storage | Intel SSD / SAS 15k Fujitsu | Intel SSD / Velociraptors / Hitachi 2TB | Intel SSD / Samsung 1TB |
Display(s) | Samsung 245T | HP ZR30w | IBM 20" 4x3 |
Case | Chieftec | Corsair Graphite 600T | Thermaltake Xaser IV |
Audio Device(s) | SB Titanium HD | SB Titanium HD | SB X-fi Elite Pro |
Power Supply | Thermaltake 875W | Corsair 850W | Thermaltake 1500W |
Mouse | Logitech | Logitech | Logitech |
Keyboard | Mitsumi Classic | Microsoft |Microsoft |
Software | W7 x64 | W7 x64 |W7 x64 / XP x32 |
So, thanks to mining, i finally bought some Radeon cards since good ol times of AGP era. Now i have 290/390 cards and must say 15.x and 16.x drivers pretty stable and compared to multiple versions of nVidia ones for 980/1070. I also have some old Quadro 2000 cards, they rock stable in any scenarios i put them. And that stability of Radeons and Quadros is memory management inside drivers especialy then your physical VRAM eaten by applications or can't be used due to stupid limitations like DX9 restriction to only use 4GB.
The good:
Radeons and Quadro can split workload and VRAM consumption correctly if multiple applications try to use GPU (multiple browsers + YT video + video encoding + online gaming + mining isn't problem, just slow), GeForces can't handle that
Radeons and Quadros have fair rendering in games, GeForces often cheats (even in simpliest games...)
The bad:
During good ol days of AGP and early PCI-E cards Radeons had so much issues with modeling and video editing software so i strictly decided to switch to green. Despite drivers quality and changes to software, that made both AMD and nVidia products equal in general usage, Radeons still ill suitable for the most prosumer tasks: OpenCL is just a word, while CUDA is used almost everywhere.
The good:
Radeons and Quadro can split workload and VRAM consumption correctly if multiple applications try to use GPU (multiple browsers + YT video + video encoding + online gaming + mining isn't problem, just slow), GeForces can't handle that
Radeons and Quadros have fair rendering in games, GeForces often cheats (even in simpliest games...)
The bad:
During good ol days of AGP and early PCI-E cards Radeons had so much issues with modeling and video editing software so i strictly decided to switch to green. Despite drivers quality and changes to software, that made both AMD and nVidia products equal in general usage, Radeons still ill suitable for the most prosumer tasks: OpenCL is just a word, while CUDA is used almost everywhere.