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Hi i'm going to buy a new graphics card shall I go for the gtx 970 IF I have a pentium g3258 and uppgrade CPU later or should I go for the gtx 960 and live with it

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Hi i'm going to buy a new graphics card shall I go for the gtx 970 IF I have a pentium g3258 and uppgrade CPU later or should I go for the gtx 960 and live with it

Hi i'm going to buy a new graphics card shall I go for the gtx 970 IF I have a pentium g3258 and uppgrade CPU later or should I go for the gtx 960 and live with it

PS I'm using a 1080 p monitor
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970 first. CPU will outlast the GPU.

 

Edit: Oh. If it's 1080p, you should be fine with a 960. But still, a 970 is fine.

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Hi i'm going to buy a new graphics card shall I go for the gtx 970 IF I have a pentium g3258 and uppgrade CPU later or should I go for the gtx 960 and live with it

If you upgrade the cpu within a year then yeah.





 
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You do have some pretty good options for upgrading the CPU if you have a Z97 board.  You can pop out the G3258 and replace it with a 4690k or 4790k for much better compute power.  I'd say grab the 970 now and upgrade the CPU later, even though the G3258 isn't a great match for the 970 as is.

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970. The 960 is a joke for its price.

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Wait a little while until July for AMD's 3xx series? More options/slight price drops.

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Why do you think that?

It's just not worth the $200 when there are other cards that will perform better, for a similar price, or slightly more. (I don't have a job, and I can save up $40 in two weeks)

 

Especially if someone is willing to wait until the 300 series drops, gonna be some price drops going around.

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It's just not worth the $200 when there are other cards that will perform better, for a similar price, or slightly more. (I don't have a job, and I can save up $40 in two weeks)

 

Especially if someone is willing to wait until the 300 series drops, gonna be some price drops going around.

Are you referring to the R9 280 as a better card? I'm interested because I can't decide which one I should get.

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Are you referring to the R9 280 as a better card? I'm interested because I can't decide which one I should get.

I would go for a 280x over a 960. Although I currently have a 970 so :\

 

If I had to change my choice, I'd have gotten a gigabyte 970 instead of the strix since it's more overclockable.

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Hi i'm going to buy a new graphics card shall I go for the gtx 970 IF I have a pentium g3258 and uppgrade CPU later or should I go for the gtx 960 and live with it

go for the 4gb verson of the 960 and save the money to upgrade your CPU 

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For 1080p the 970 is overkill.  Unless you plan on upgrading your monitor resolution too,the 960 makes more sense.

 

imo get a 960 and upgrade the CPU to an i3 instead of a 970.  Costs about the same amount of money.

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I would go for a 280x over a 960. Although I currently have a 970 so :\

 

If I had to change my choice, I'd have gotten a gigabyte 970 instead of the strix since it's more overclockable.

I'm going for a $200 card though. 280x is more money.

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I'm going for a $200 card though. 280x is more money.

Meh, $40 more doesn't seem like a huge jump. It's all up to you though.

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I'd go with the 970, and upgrade the CPU later.

The 960 is a lot more limiting.

Hell I'd almost save the money and get a 270x over the 960. They're not that far apart performance wise.

 

970 first. CPU will outlast the GPU.

 

Edit: Oh. If it's 1080p, you should be fine with a 960. But still, a 970 is fine.

This CPU will not...

The Pentium is a really budget, stopgap CPU.

 

 

go for the 4gb verson of the 960 and save the money to upgrade your CPU 

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What's your current GPU? I think upgrading from a Pentium is needed.

. I'm using a gtx 750 ti but I'm trying to get decent framerates in acu
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Meh, $40 more doesn't seem like a huge jump. It's all up to you though.

sorry I've got a 450w psu can't use 280x i guess IF i can please post
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. I'm using a gtx 750 ti but I'm trying to get decent framerates in acu

 

acu is a horrible port. hard to get decent framerates last i heard.

 

if you plan on upgrading the cpu soon, then get the 970. if it is going to take more than 6 months then i'd wait and upgrade the cpu now and see how the gpu market goes. i doubt the 960 or 970 will give you decent frame rates in acu with a the pentium anyway.

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sorry I've got a 450w psu can't use 280x i guess IF i can please post

No idea if you can or not. Don't know much about PSU's

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Go with 970 and get rid of that G3258 as soon as you can, it will even bottleneck that 960.

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