Little Blue's graphics card is getting grumpy - glitches & screen drop-outs when I play even half intensive games or edit video - so I want to buy a new one.

I want to buy Radeon again for Eyefinity across Little Blue's screens and I'm looking for R9 270 & up for under£150.  I currently have a Sapphire HD 7850 OC with 2GbTBH.

I am also very keen to play Alien Isolation.

I have found THIS. It's an MSI R9 280 with 3Gb RAM and a Radeon Gold Rewards (allowing me to d/l Alien Isolation plus two other games).

Can any of the possie see any reason why I shouldn't buy this card ar should buy a different one?

I am a bit of a Nvidia fan boy so I would say go for one of these as the drive support is better IMO, but that is a solid card for the price and the extra gig (TBH) of ram will help in the longevity of the card. 

Do Nvidia not do nice eyefinity type stuff? Their game support is way better.

Ta for your thoughts, both.  Admit I was a little sold on the free Alien Isolation, but I will research whether Nvidia do effective triplescreen

I have just purchased one of these beastys to upgrade my GTX 670. It's an amazing card for the price.

Beast!  And the card looks good, too.

You can get Isolation for about £21 with a bit of shopping around. It being Sega/Creative Assembly I fully expect it to be <£15 on Steam within about a month or two. Not enough to base a decision on!

I've been buying nothing but ati/amd cards but will probably switch to nvidia because they have better linux support. Still, it's a ways off and I'll have to make do with my 4650 1G agp.

4650?  Cripes, Smiffy!  That's one up from drawing on birchbark with a burnt stick.

That's my fallback system.

If you feel that you might ever want to do anything at all in Linux then avoid AMD cards and go with Nvidia (GTX 670 is the current sensible choice). For Windows it'll be fine though.

Apart from with quite a few games where it will have annoying driver issues. I'm never going back.

Yeah, I left that out cos I didn't want to come across as anti AMD. I think they actually make better cards. The problem is that they've always made shitter drivers, on both platforms.

AMD cards are OK in Linux. You can do stuff.

So long as that stuff isn't games, yeah.

(They work, sure, but at like a 50% fps hit compared to Windows. Which is unacceptable. They work better with the open source drivers though, which is cool (but also illustrates quite how bad AMD's drivers are)).

I don't use linux for gaming, just for dev, image editing (gimp) & such. My amd card works great for all those things. One thing though, posting on teh in Chrome is slow as hell*. Latest Chrome builds are really struggling with javascript (I'm assuming the teh editor is js-based). Even jquery fx that were smooth as silk turned choppy about a month ago. But they're still smooth in Midori (also webkit).

*I should clarify: typing is slow as hell, posting is normal.

£16 on humble store today. I was a little bit optimistic but not miles out.

My first graphics card was a Voodoo with 2mb of RAM.  It was mighty!

I lusted after a Voodoo card. I just couldn't afford or justify it.

I stuck mainly with Matrox. Thems were the days when I gave a damn about graphics cards.