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CPU AND GPU Boss are the shittest of shit when talking about comparison sites, if you previously used them please rethink everything regarding your GPU or CPU as these sites might of misled you in some way. The site is extremely biased to Nvidia gpus and Intel CPUs to some extent.

What? it's not as easy as "increase you budget"

Yes there is look it up AMD POLARIS  is releasing  with mid end cards(480), you are still thinking about Pascals  1080 and 1070.

tbh I hate how intel tells you what you can and cannot do with your hardware. If you buy a piece of tech you should be able to do what ever you want with it. 

tbh I hate how intel tells you what you can and cannot do with your hardware. If you buy a piece of tech you should be able to do what ever you want with it. 

I see your point but prices are much different i other places. Also many people are not fans of micro ATX boards due to limited functionality in most cases(No pun intended).

Ok in your eyes that might of been a long time ago but because Asrock has kept it on the down low many people are not aware of this. But my point still stands this might be a lot harder to circumvent than before.

It depends.
Are you into Blacks or XXX?

Ok, I do completely get your point. I will get the 1x8GB.

Thats another infernus! Sounds pretty cool actually!

Thank you! I really hate this over exaggeration used to scare people away from the better choices and it's so effective because many people don't bother to check and just believe these ludicrous claims. 

Yea you did, first of all the calculation you did was stupid and does not take many things into account(I live in the freaking UK for god-sake) .
 
Roast like Pig, you are just stupid. There is no way my PC is going to make me "roast" unless you have shitty heat insulation in you're home and live in Saudi Arabia it will barely make you feel Hot.
Another point I live in the UK even in the summer the heat is mediocre at best. If you read the other comments, you can see that you are in a small minority(960 opinion) with good reason because like stated many times before the 380 is better fullstop.
 
Just because you regret getting one yourself does not mean you have to try and sell it to other people.
 
Not A SINGLE!! review states that the card will make your room hotter or anything like what you have stated.
 
Look at a review of a freakin 290X and no one will mention anything room overheating.
 
 

Dude we have moved on from this now.... and it's idiotic that you think this will increase my room temp.

Lool how much BS we can find here...
 
3 false things:
- Average power consumption between 380 and 960 is more 50-70W than 100.
- There's no country with such price of $0.25kWh. Most expensive countries have it around $0.15kWh.
- Typical gaming time over a year is no way near those 5 hours every freaking day. 20 hours/week is a much better average.
 
With those more reasonable numbers instead of your silly and disproportional I-make-Nvidia-good numbers, the extra you pay over a year for a 380 is about 10$ more. 

yea in the Uk the 650w cost a lot more than the 550w. But I think i will be fine as I've checked the max wattage of my build and its no where near 550.

Seriously, stop talking. 380 is a big card in what universe? There are also ITX 380s. GCN 1.2 cards are not hot like GCN 1.1 cards are. A lot more power hungry? You seem to be seeing different benchmarks than the rest of us are or maybe 30W is a lot more in the universe you live in. The 960 is garbage.

Well after watching many videos, I have concluded that the 380 beats the 960 in the majority of games and is overall around 10% more powerful and with dx12 coming the difference only gets greater. So I'm going with the 380.

Wow very comprehensive! Thanks!! I might go for XFX  maybe the MSI.