Been Away For A While (Suggestions?)

[GigaSnow]

Due to demands from work, school, and my personal life, I was away from the internals of my PC for about 5 months. Since then, it looks like a bunch of new cards have been released.

 

Before I left, I was looking at an R9 390X, but is that still considered a good buy? Should I look at anything from Nvidia? Anything coming out soon worth a look?

 

Thanks for the help.

[Cyracus]

depends on your budget and build specs, AMDs new line is all mid-low tier, nvidia has the mid-highwith the 1060 being a bit better than the 480 in most games so if you find it for near the msrp of $250 I'd say it's definitely the better buy

[GigaSnow]

4 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

depends on your budget and build specs, AMDs new line is all mid-low tier, nvidia has the mid-highwith the 1060 being a bit better than the 480 in most games so if you find it for near the msrp of $250 I'd say it's definitely the better buy

Thinking up to $400, although I'd be more comfortable around the $250-$300 range.

 

EDIT: As far as the specs, like I said, my computer has been pretty neglected. I'm currently running an APU with plans to upgrade to an i5 6600k. 

[MaxBunny]

9 minutes ago, GigaSnow said:

Before I left, I was looking at an R9 390X, but is that still considered a good buy? Should I look at anything from Nvidia? Anything coming out soon worth a look? Thinking up to $400, although I'd be more comfortable around the $250-$300 range.

The 390x is more powerful than the 480/1060, but it also uses more watts. Whatever you buy is going to have some drawbacks. You just have to minimize them.

[Cyracus]

19 minutes ago, GigaSnow said:

As far as the specs, like I said, my computer has been pretty neglected. I'm currently running an APU with plans to upgrade to an i5 6600k

well from what I've seen a 6600k can drive a 1070 well if you decide to go with that whole budget, couldn't find reviews that covered the 1060 and 390x that I'd trust to source in a five minute search, but what I did see suggested the 1060 performed from 20% less to on par with the 390x depending on the game and resolution, but always playable frames at 1080p