06-04-2014, 09:04 AM
Hi, I recently have been putting together a new system for myself for malware analysis- working with lots of windows and linux vms, and also doing a lot of stuff with my own scripts that I use with hashcat. I currently have been using an intel core i7 920 processor, and a gtx 460. Great system but I really would like to build something that I can use for my own education and work, I'll be building it on the fx 8350, 16 gigs of corsair ram, and a 1tb raptor hard drive. Now I'm not really sure what card that I should go for, I posted the same question on a couple of other forums and all that I got was a bunch of gamers that really didn't know anything about this type of thing. So has anyone used any of the newer xfx cards? I wanted to get the gigabyte 280, but I'm somewhat new to it and I'm not sure if I just can overclock the crap out of it and if I will get a performance increase for the hashes.