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Upgrading CPU + GPU

crapbandit

crapbandit

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I've been looking into getting a new card for 1440p gaming.
I've been waiting on the new amd line to come out for ages, but the stock coolers are causing me to doubt it's performance compared with the cooler 780s out there. So I think I'm gonna either get a zotac 780 @~£350 or the inno3d @400 ooooooooor the r290. If you could pitch in what you think i'd appreciate that :)

I currently have a Phenom II OC @3.8Ghz but I am certain will heavily bottleneck the 780. I'm using a ASUS M4N68T PRO mobo which has an AM3 socket.
How much performance dip could i expect from maxing everything out? Is it worth me buying a z87 board with 4670k as i get the new card? Or should i just get the card and see what it's like?

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
 
That CPU would be quite a bottleneck, no exact figures of course, but it would be significant.

I'd definitely wait 'til the first half of December to buy a GPU as that's when the non-reference coolers will be fully out in the wild for the R9 290(X) which is when I'd expect prices to move around.
 
No exact budget tbh. I have the money to get what I want and will pay for the new cpu and mobo if it cripples my performance. I am sorta dying to play some bf4 though.
Is there really much chance of the 780 going for much lower than £350 in the coming month?
 
Well, I'd certainly wait for the R9 290 to come out (Supposedly on Tuesday) and maybe wait 'til the non-reference coolers come for the R9 290 and 290X which will probably be around the beginning of December just to see.

You never know, we might get lucky and see a massive price war between Nvidia and AMD. :D
 
That I think is a certainty, it's going to take a few weeks though. A 290 or a 7970 is probably the best value from AMD side, keep an eye out for the offers as the GPU's are popular in decent deals.
 
I was actually going to hold out 'til February myself as that's when my free delivery from OCUK is valid. :D

Another reason was because that's when Maxwell will come out, hopefully dropping AMD prices further. ;)

Would you believe that I only got accepted to the forum at 3 this morning? (I then started posting at 10).
 
Spudbrains said:
I was actually going to hold out 'til February myself as that's when my free delivery from OCUK is valid. :D

Another reason was because that's when Maxwell will come out, hopefully dropping AMD prices further. ;)

Would you believe that I only got accepted to the forum at 3 this morning? (I then started posting at 10).
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Wow thats one hell of a lot of posts per day
 
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