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it depends....
what versions of the cards are you looking at? What price can you get it for?
AMD's 300 series should be out by summer....dont you think its a little late to be considering a 290/290x now?
and?
Gigabyte Windforce 290x on newegg is $540 (out of stock though)
Windforce 290 is $390
Even if the 290x was $440 ($50 difference as OP stated), its still a little late to be considering 290's when 380s/390s will be out in 3-5 months (hopefully)
What do you mean by your 7970 can't cut it anymore at 1080P? At that resolution the 7970 can handle just about any game. I know because I have it running at that resolution and have thrown many recent titles at it with no hit in performance.
Personally, if your motherboard and PSU can handle it, I would get a second 7970 and CF it.
Did the frame pacing drivers include the 7970?
The hard-line beta was constantly dipping below 60 fps with settings turned down
and?
Gigabyte Windforce 290x on newegg is $540 (out of stock though)
Windforce 290 is $390
Even if the 290x was $440 ($50 difference as OP stated), its still a little late to be considering 290's when 380s/390s will be out in 3-5 months (hopefully)
My 980 barely cuts it at 1080P if you're into DSR/VSR and AA. Barely cuts it means different things to different people I suppose.
What games have suddenly come out that you want to play on a 7970 that won't play well at 1080P? If you are worried about $50 then I would say turn down your settings and save up you money for the R3xx series. You will lose more than $50 when you go to sell it because most likely there will be a flood of R2xx cards for sale when the R3xx cards hit the market. I was running HD5870's in Crossfire until the R9 290X came out. I then just played all the games I loved over again at higher settings.
The other thing is I use to think getting a card at the end of life was the thing to do. I have changed my mind on that. Getting it at the beginning is best because you get all the benefit of the cards throughout the life of the card AND it turns out to be more cost effective.
In the long run, you will be happier if you wait, imo.
What do you mean by your 7970 can't cut it anymore at 1080P? At that resolution the 7970 can handle just about any game. I know because I have it running at that resolution and have thrown many recent titles at it with no hit in performance.
I sort of disagree with your last point.
If you pick up a 290 or 290x today, it'll hold up fairly well at least until the next console generation hits and raises the bar again. And you had 5870's before, so you weren't exactly missing out on *that much*.
But then I lag a bit and tend to buy things on steam sale so having a year or two lag on my GPU's doesn't impact me much.
AMD 390 series is probably going to be $400+ when they get released