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Hey guys,
After a lot of thought I have decided purely for gaming I would not benefit much by upgrading from my current setup (X58, 6Gig (trichan), Bloomfield i7 950) to a Haswell setup.
So I have decided with GTA 5 on the horizon to swap my graphics card for something with a bit more go, Currently running a HD6970 and I have the choice of going for a R9 290X or a GTX 980.
The AMD is £260 or the Nvidia is £400
I will be overclocking my CPU so as to avoid bottlenecking the GPU too much, I would like to know which of those two cards you would go for, I would like to run GTA5 at least close to maxed out in 2560x1440.
Thoughts?
Also a side question there's a EVGA GTX980 on "the bay" right now, how on earth can I tell if it is reference or not (the current owner obviously isn't going to take the heatsink off and measure it for me) as I would be installing my Arctic Xtreme III on it.
Thanks guys.
After a lot of thought I have decided purely for gaming I would not benefit much by upgrading from my current setup (X58, 6Gig (trichan), Bloomfield i7 950) to a Haswell setup.
So I have decided with GTA 5 on the horizon to swap my graphics card for something with a bit more go, Currently running a HD6970 and I have the choice of going for a R9 290X or a GTX 980.
The AMD is £260 or the Nvidia is £400
I will be overclocking my CPU so as to avoid bottlenecking the GPU too much, I would like to know which of those two cards you would go for, I would like to run GTA5 at least close to maxed out in 2560x1440.
Thoughts?
Also a side question there's a EVGA GTX980 on "the bay" right now, how on earth can I tell if it is reference or not (the current owner obviously isn't going to take the heatsink off and measure it for me) as I would be installing my Arctic Xtreme III on it.
Thanks guys.
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