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Just upgraded my rig

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Moonzi

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I'm asking this a couple places. I just upgraded my gaming rig to everything listed below and I was going to wait for Maxwell...the rumors I'm hearing are 2015 now so I think I want to buy a new card to replace my 570. Budget is 300-400 bucks and I'm assuming the GTX 770 is the way to go? Gaming on one monitor and at 1920 X 1200 I don't think I need more than 2GB of VRAM.

So I was thinking this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121770

This:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500311

or this:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8920010&CatId=7387

I'm extremely torn though and would love some guidance and/or better suggestions.

Thank you in advance!
 
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Those links don't show anything....
In any case what games do you play? If your going to use AA your gonna need more then 2gb of Vram with modern games....

Or you could just use SMAA which doesn't use much Vram and is GPU power dependant.
 
Sorry links fixed...

ESO, BF4, Titanfall, CSGO, Rust, DOTA2 to name a few.

I also would like to futureproof for like 3 years.
 
hehe probably but at the time I was looking to save that 100 bucks for a new gpu :)
 
Bah hes fine with that CPU even though Im AMD biased, get a card with 4gb of Vram
 
Zakarro said:
Bah hes fine with that CPU even though Im AMD biased, get a card with 4gb of Vram
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Of course he is fine. Crysis 3 is probably about the only game where having the 4770k will actually help. The point is he mentioned 3 years so we are sure to get some more games that will perform better on a 4770k than 4670k. If he does not use vsync though then it will likely never be an issue.

OP, I would just narrow it down to the 780 and 290. Both have their pros and cons so either one is fine.
 
appreciate the help all! I'm just trying to figure out why I would pay an extra 100 for similar performance, I've had both company cards and don't really have a preference besides best results.
 
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yeah.. dont' bother waiting for Maxwell. Either the 780 or the 290 will serve your needs.

Perhaps see if you can pick up a used 290x on the forums?
 
Best bang for buck card right now is r9 290, you can find them used for $300 or less. If you want something cheaper go with 280x/7970 (basically the same card) for $200 or less.
 
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