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My follow classmate is asking me is it worth up grading from his HD 7870.

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Yeah the 480 is a pretty good upgrade.

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19 minutes ago, Brock Samson said:

My follow classmate is asking me is it worth up grading from his HD 7870.

The 880k will be a huge bottleneck

Save up for a fx or a i5

 

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Upgrading the CPU would be better than a GPU upgrade with his current build for longer-term, due to the CPU bottlenecking.

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I had a A8-6600K which which is slightly slower than the 860k and bottlenecked a r9 280 in a lot of games you need to upgrade your cpu. 

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He told me he will save for zen or cannonlake followed by amd navi, as vega is will be out of his price range and based on nvidia's price increases across all of its new gpus, he will stick with amd for now until nvidia drops down the prices at a reasonable level pre-pascal prices.

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4 minutes ago, Brock Samson said:

He told me he will save for zen or cannonlake followed by amd navi, as vega is will be out of his price range and based on nvidia's price increases across all of its new gpus, he will stick with amd for now until nvidia drops down the prices at a reasonable level pre-pascal prices.

As long as he plans to upgrade the CPU, the 480 is fine.

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