Which upgrade please

mhvcbv · 15 Feb 2014 at 14:22

HI
Which upgade will be best for me at gaming please.
I play all Call of duty, crysis 3, BF3 and Titanfall when released

pc specs now are.
Asus 27 inch 144hz 1920x1080 monitor
asus crosshair fomula z
fx 8350 @ 4.5mhz
16gb 1600mhz corsair ram
2 gigabyte 670 in sli (factory oc)
ocz vertex 256gb ssd.

Do i move to intels 4770k + MB or
upgrade to r9 290x, gtx780 or 3 way sli gtx 670.
only got about £450ish.

thanks

Avenged7Fold · 15 Feb 2014 at 15:35

290pro.

Your cpu gets to shine in the games you listed and real fps gain by changing it would be unnoticable. the 290p is better value than your sugested gpu combinations and is only slightly behind the 290x. mantle is worth taking advantage too.

OvEr_KiLL · 15 Feb 2014 at 15:35

im running a similar spec (see below) ,
i would upgrade the gfx card and get the 290

mhvcbv · 15 Feb 2014 at 15:40

cheers guys
looks like a new gpu then
was thinking of the saphire 290x as its price has come down a bit
or is it worth the lesser 290 still.

Avenged7Fold · 15 Feb 2014 at 15:43

Imo 290x are only worth it for benching. i have one and they practically the same in game.

mhvcbv · 15 Feb 2014 at 15:55

ok cheers 290 its then
just got to find one now

ndaar · 15 Feb 2014 at 16:06

290s seem to be going up again in price. Im sure they were cheaper even last week. But agree I think GPU over CPU upgrade probably. I would imagine 1x290 is probably not a huge improvement over 2x670s though. Id try and add that second one in xfire asap.