What should I upgrade to?

[Christian V.]

So as of right now I have a Sapphire R9 270x oc 4gb and I'm looking to upgrade. The card I really want to get my hands on is the Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X 4gb, but after looking at benchmarks and what not, I don't know if I should go for that or a gtx 970. And even if I was to the gtx 970 route, I wouldn't know which one to get because I've been using Radeon cards for as long as I've had a pc to use it on. There is no need to worry about bottlenecks from the CPU, my rig is able to handle it.

 

Specs:

 

MSI Big Bang X-Power II

LGA 2011 i7-4820K 3.7 GHz                                              -plan to overclock to 4.3 GHz when I get a better cpu cooler

Noctua NH-L12                                                                   -Yes, I know, why did I get this, it's for a smaller profile build

NZXT Phantom 820

G. Skill Ripjaws X (2x8) 16gb

1 TB Western Digital Green Drive                                       -Again, I know I should've at least gone blue

Sandisk 32gb ReadyCache                                                 -This ssd is a storage cache

SilverStone Strider Plus 750W 80+ Silver

Asus DVD Read/Write optical drive

 

so yeah, was just wondering which video card I should upgrade too, I'm asking here because everyone I know who has the slightest idea (don't personally know a lot of people into techy stuff, kids in my high school think it's weird) about computer tech are extremely bias towards Radeon, so GeForce is constantly getting a bad rap, but I just want a more varied opinion. 

[OriginalPromise]

You can get a 840 EVO, but for a GPU, wait until the 3XX series comes on the market. 

[Bravocommander]

You can get a 840 EVO, but for a GPU, wait until the 3XX series comes on the market. 

agreed, they drop in feburary i think

[SteveGrabowski]

for a GPU, wait until the 3XX series comes on the market. 

 

I agree. Might as well wait until the next generation of AMD GPUs considering the 270x is still a quality 1080p GPU.

[Christian V.]

Thanks, I really just wanted to upgrade to a video card that I felt I would want to eventually run in crossfire or SLI, and what do you think the price range of the next gen cards will be

[OriginalPromise]

Thanks, I really just wanted to upgrade to a video card that I felt I would want to eventually run in crossfire or SLI, and what do you think the price range of the next gen cards will be

It's going to have to compete with the current Nvidia cards, and AMD solutions has always been a tad bit cheaper compared to Nvidia. 

Hope that helped.

[Thebman712]

well i would agree with the others, wait, but a 390x wont be as cheap as 290x are right now, they are at teh end of theior cycle so they are cheap

 

a good card for that build would be a 980, or dual 970s

 

for what 970 to get, go with a reference cooler as it is sexy as hell, and if you add another for sli, then it will be dope as frak

 

also i suggest you drop a ssd in there, 240 gb is really sweetspot right now

[Christian V.]

I know they aren't going to be the same price as 290x's, the gtx 980 is 500-600 dollars so I imagine a 390x would be that or more