I built my own PC back in June so I'm fairly new to this rig lark.
I have a question, just how long will my AMD R9 290X last before I need an upgrade in order to continue to play games above medium settings at 55-144fps? (I prefer 144fps for shooters).
I bought the card in the hopes that I wouldn't bother considering an upgrade for at LEAST 2 years, or even 3.

Thanks in advance

TheBlisterer

(I won't reply for about 8 hours, work n all)


EDIT: I care much more about frame rate than I do about graphics, if I have to lower the new Doom game to just above low settings to get 144 fps then I will.

Considering the games available at GOG, I don't think you'd have a problem.

Otherwise, it's an impossible question to answer.

Depends on your resolution and quality settings of course. On 1920x1080 it barely runs the Witcher 3 with 30 FPS on ultra. So 4K is out of the question...

You're good until they make games you can't run well. That should be a while. You're around 390/980 performance right now. Anything multiplayer will be even longer since they need to optimize those for lower end hardware.

I don't get much from GOG, I just posted it on these forums since I get the most sensible replies on these ones. I think the only reason The Witcher 3 doesn't run well on my card is because Nvidia hindered the performance dramatically. The Witcher 3 isn't a fantastic looking game in my opinion, neither is Project Cars yet it seems to struggle running both. D:

At least two/three years?
It wouldn't surprise me if you encountered your first <60FPS games within six months.

Try lowering Multisampling Sample number, or disabling hairworks. It should then work on AMD too. But what game is fantastic looking if not TW3?

With the current technology advancement pace, we can't actually tell, but looking back this few years, I don't think you are going to have any problem for 2 years at least with that card.
Unless they come up with a new out-of-this-world graphic engine along with some crazy architecture on shading & rendering effects. You're good.

I have a R9 290x and planed this a year ago. It will last around 2 maybe 3 more years. The R9 390 is a rehashed version of the 290x with a few tweaks and more ram. You can if you want to flash your bios modded from 390x to 290x if you know how and willing to. You can take advantage of the ATI driver features on the 300 series, since amd is quietly downgrading performance on older cards. R9 290x is DX 12 ready so your good for a while. Current GOG games are good til your card dies of old age.

It's AMD, and from the R9 series, it will LAST, I tell ya, when Nvidia gimps their Titan and GTX series with their beggining sales with 4gb of vram, you are gonna be fine.

Damn. Thought this was a discussion on workout plans to get ripped.

The R9 290X is still one of AMD's flagship-cards, 2-3 years is a pretty accurate estimate. I believe you can crossfire it with the newer R9 390 or 390X (can anyone confirm?), so that might be a good option when it starts to lack power in the newest games, not all games have crossfire-support though.

Besides, doesn't FPS-pros play at 800x600 with black bars? ;)

I think it may be down to my taste in visuals then? I just think TW3 graphics are considerably over rated, they are plenty of better looking ones.
Haven't actually played the game yet though (but seen plenty), I bought it on sale about a month back and I'm yet to download it...internet speed being bad n all.
Yeah I just didn't want this card to be another card that gets timed terribly and gets a much more powerful replacement in 6 months time, glad to see/hear this won't happen.

I think you looked at youtube videos that have crappy quality. I haven't seen any rpg with better graphics and feel. I mean that Skellige landscape is... wow.

I've tended to buy the higher mid-range cards for a while. Cards in the £180 - £220 range. I've just bought a R9 380X.

My previous card, a HD7870, lasted 3 years and played most games thrown at it quite well. Alien:Isolation was on high settings an looked great with good frame rate.

My daughter now has my old kit and should get another 3 years of use out of it.