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Hey guys, So Right now I have a r9 390. I've looked at the benchmarks on all of these cards. I want to upgrade my graphics, I'm more or less happy with it. but I recently upgraded my cpu like crazy. and my I've noticed that my Graphics card is taking a lot of hits. So I have some options: Second r9 390? two 970's or (mayyyyyyyyyyyyyybe I can afford two 980 ti's) or maybe one 1080, or two rx 480's. I don't have a preference between team red or green. So, What do y'all think?

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3 minutes ago, NotTristan said:

Hey guys, So Right now I have a r9 390. I've looked at the benchmarks on all of these cards. I want to upgrade my graphics, I'm more or less happy with it. but I recently upgraded my cpu like crazy. and my I've noticed that my Graphics card is taking a lot of hits. So I have some options: Second r9 390? two 970's or (mayyyyyyyyyyyyyybe I can afford two 980 ti's) or maybe one 1080, or two rx 480's. I don't have a preference between team red or green. So, What do y'all think?

What CPU do you have? what games are you gonna play? and what res are you gonna play at?

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My 970 does a very comfortable 60 fps in most games at 1440p with the more "meaningless" graphics turned down  at 1440p. What monitor do you have?

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I'm playing at 1440p  144 hz I have an engineering sample intel. it's super sketchy but all I know is it's at 8 cores, got it safely to 3.8-4.0 ghz and it has 22nm) been running for 4 months and works so far though haha. and I play a lot of like guild wars, dark souls, h1z1, dayz, some of it gets intensive.

 

EDIT: also I wan't to be gaming at more or less maxed out games, as far as they can go.

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I am confused as to why upgrading your CPU impacted your GPU performance in any way other than positively......

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It didn't impact my GPU performance, I could have worded that differently, I can now push my games harder, which is putting more stress on the GPU, stress I don't really want to put on it, I'd rather put it in another rig that won't be going though that kind of stress and make it last longer. I just want something that can pair better with my CPU

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