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LOL OP started a thread asking for opinions then went on to insult everybody who disagreed. Nice. Very Nice.

What are you talking about bro. How many you want?

nVidia's competitor for the R9-280X is the GTX 770... Nvm

I didn't post the spec because I wasn't sure of it but I believe the Noctua has about double the static pressure

Perhaps some of you guys skipped this:
 
Originally Posted by Shadow_UGZ:   Just came back from the AMD event in Montreal and wanted to share the info I got. The event was in a small room with 3 AMD guys, 2 identical rigs (except for GPUS) and some refreshments.   I think the specs/benchmarks have already been posted so I'll just post some observations and other info I got from the AMD guys.   - The 290X was MUCH smoother than the GTX 780 (The GTX780 was tearing like a mofo in Bioshock Infinite, painful to watch...) - The 290X has a "UBER-mode" switch on the side which he couldn't tell more about because of NDA - 280X is still Tahiti but it's a "completely new ASIC" - Never Settle will not be bundled with R7/R9 series at launch but will be eventually. It will still be bundled with 7970, etc - The 290X was surprisingly very quiet and looks amazing (much better than GTX780 IMO, I love black) - 290X is HDMI 1.4 (not 2.0, so it's limited to 30Hz @ 4K on HDMI) - NDA lifting this month "for sure" - They are testing some BETA drivers with 12K (3 x 4K) eyefinity support which they will be releasing soon - He would not let me run GPUz...  - Very disappointed by 4K, expected a lot more. Not worth it IMO   I have some pics but they are very blurry, I can dump them in an imgur album if you guys really want to see them.   Here are the pictures: AMD 290X event Montreal - Imgur   Just noticed why the GTX 780 was tearing so much when looking at the pictures: Minimum FPS   Bioshock Inifinite Benchmark   290X   Min: 33.0 FPS AVG: 43.3 FPS Max: 56.6 FPS   GTX 780   Min: 9.89 FPS Avg: 39.49 FPS Max: 59.21 FPS   Originally Posted byJuub:   -He also said their aim is to compete with the GTX 780 and not the Titan. Surprisingly, Bioshock Infinite had the 290x beating the 780 by about 15% but in Tomb Raider only about 5%. It's weird considering Bioshock tends to favor NVIDIA and Tomb Raider AMD. He couldn't reveal the price but he did tell me we'd be ''extremely happy'' about it. Considering it's aiming to compete with the 780, I wouldn't be surprised to see it priced lower.   -He didn't tell me Never Settle bundles will be eventually included with the R series, he simply told me people love bundles and it's a great incentive to buy so they'll definitely try to have some in the future.   -The Sharp monitors were both 4K 60HZ and 30''. They looked good but not nearly enough to justify their ridiculous price tags of 3,000$+. 4K doesn't look that much better than 1600p at that screen size but that's probably due to the screen being too small to display UHD in its full glory. Still, for those who absolutely want a 4K 27'', you'll be disappointed.   -290X is designed to run at 95c so it'll get hot but it won't throttle nor get damaged by this. This is the target they're aiming for. The GPU will run really hot but will still be stable.   -Mantle will be strictly up to the developers to use or not to use. They apparently have some big name players in the field who will use Mantle. Dice is the first big one but expect to see more in the near future. Mantle is what everyone say it is. It brings a console-like development environment to the PC. I wouldn't hold my breath for 20% better performance. I would however expect much smoother and better ports.   -The tech demo showing Ruby with the not so great TressFX had around 23 different effects designed by AMD and it was just a beta. A finished version will apparently look much better.   -CPU's running on both systems were i7-3960X.   -The AMD rep said he saw the rumors about the pricing online and the most widely accepted prices are ''completely wrong''.   -He couldn't reveal anything about the specs. No GPU-Z. Nothing. Just the cards as is.   - I attempted to get the price out of him by first asking how much the monitors were worth and then by asking how much the whole system was worth. He didn't bite.   Source: [LR] AMD To Show Off Radeon R9 290X Video Card in Montreal Tomorrow! - Page 22

What kind of cooling are we talking about here? 
 
do you have any motherboard recommendations? originally i was going with the 4670k+ud3h combo but since the 8320 sounds like the best choice, i will have to change my plans
 
 
 
i think i got the rest covered. It's just the CPU/Mobo part that I am not sure about since the new consoles are coming out(8 core optimization ftw) and the prices of AMD being significantly cheaper
 
 
 
 
About the news that AMD is retiring its AM3 socket: correct me if i am wrong but it's AM3 not AM3+ right? 
 
so if i go with the 8320 i should be fine?