What to replace my R9-290 ?

[Mem5]

Sorry for late response.

I was first surprised about your Nvidia recommendations, as I remember it *was* shitty cards.
Then I read your post : http://hashcat.net/forum/thread-3949-pos...l#pid22449 where you put Nvidia cards on top.

So you now recommend Nvidia cards despite AMD ones.

For my budget I would go for a "Nvidia GTX 980 reference design"

Few questions :
- Currently I have 165kh/s for WPA, any hints for the GTX 980 ? Can't find "recent" benchmark
- What about noise and power consumption with -w 3 : more or less than my 290 ?
- How to make difference between reference and OEM card ? Question of brand ? (Gigabyte, MSI, Asus, Pny, Gainward,..)

Thanks again for your help