- Joined
- Mar 14, 2014
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- Motherboard
- Z97X-UD5H
- CPU
- i7-4790K
- Graphics
- 2 x R9 280X
- Mac
A pair of 5770 cards work very well, but they are old, oldish
The AMD 280X cards *should* work fine. I ran a pair of them on a Z87X MB and had fantastic performance, I moved to a Z97X MB and still have the dual 280X cards which work perfectly well. A single 280X card is still a very good card for use with FCP X.
I run Lightroom and Photoshop as well with no issues, we have around 70,000 photos and flick between them with no problems.
eBay has them for approx £85, check carefully which 280X card you buy as the MSI ones are a little tricky. The Sapphire ones tend to work out of the box.
The only downside I have with the AMD cards is that when I boot into Windows 10, BF1 and BF4 aren't top notch graphics
The AMD 280X cards *should* work fine. I ran a pair of them on a Z87X MB and had fantastic performance, I moved to a Z97X MB and still have the dual 280X cards which work perfectly well. A single 280X card is still a very good card for use with FCP X.
I run Lightroom and Photoshop as well with no issues, we have around 70,000 photos and flick between them with no problems.
eBay has them for approx £85, check carefully which 280X card you buy as the MSI ones are a little tricky. The Sapphire ones tend to work out of the box.
The only downside I have with the AMD cards is that when I boot into Windows 10, BF1 and BF4 aren't top notch graphics