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Alamazing 1735
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Hello everyone! I've recently took on the challenge of throwing a new PC together for myself, well upgrading the dinosaur of a system I had. I recently have gotten myself a Mother board, CPU (AMD FX 9370), and some ram, and now am looking to see what graphics card to pick up, iv'e had my eye on one of Asus' GTX 760's, but i'm not sure what to get yet. I'll be using this rig for gaming and such so if any of you have any suggestions it would be much appreciated!

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that CPU pulls a TON of power. What MOBO are you using? You could easily fry it if its not on that CPU's whitelist. Also, you had better be water cooling because its a beast.

 

Also, how many monitors at what resolutions? Will you need CUDA (if you do you will know)? Can you settle with an AMD card? What is your budget?

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No budget so GTX 780Ti.

 

 

But really, r9 280x or 290 or gtx 770 or gtx 780.

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man, that cpu... you're crazy

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No budget so GTX 780Ti.

 

 

But really, r9 280x or 290 or gtx 770 or gtx 780.

yeah, no budget = 780Ti (kingpin edition hum...???). and i did not even mentioned 4-way sli so... yeah... xD

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Get a 780 lightning or something and OC it for 780 ti (or close to) performance. 

 

I think 500$ for the 780 is an amazing deal, especially after seeing the price increases on the r9 series.

 

If you don't have 500$ in your budget, try and find an r9 280x that hasn't been shot through the roof with it's pricing.

 

If you can't find one in your area that isn't 100+$ over retail, buy a 760 DCU2

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Fortunately the CPU was a gift, for what i'll be using it for it's highly over powered i'm sure. Thank you for all the suggestions! I'll be looking into things later today when I am allowed more time, Merry Christmas or Happy holiday to all, whichever you prefer!

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Fortunately the CPU was a gift, for what i'll be using it for it's highly over powered i'm sure. Thank you for all the suggestions! I'll be looking into things later today when I am allowed more time, Merry Christmas or Happy holiday to all, whichever you prefer!

Unsure if I'm a bit late on the train here. 

 

I'm no expert or anything in video cards, but I know that EVGA's GTX 760 Dual Superclocked w/ EVGA ACX Cooler it just seems to be the best from a few benchmarks I've seen, in terms of cooling performance.

 

Plus if you go above the 760, I believe you begin dipping into GPU's that are more powerful of course, but more geared to run higher resolutions than 1080.

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that CPU pulls a TON of power. What MOBO are you using? You could easily fry it if its not on that CPU's whitelist. Also, you had better be water cooling because its a beast.

 

Also, how many monitors at what resolutions? Will you need CUDA (if you do you will know)? Can you settle with an AMD card? What is your budget?

 

Sure does, I may need to pick up a new power supply, and possibly a new MOBO I dont think it supports this puppy.. Currently only have two random monitors at some random resolutions ones 1080 though (I'm pretty sure) and as cheap as possible with the most preformance around 200-300 since i'll be needing to pick up a new PSU and MOBO probably.. So low side of 200 would be best..

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Sure does, I may need to pick up a new power supply, and possibly a new MOBO I dont think it supports this puppy.. Currently only have two random monitors at some random resolutions ones 1080 though (I'm pretty sure) and as cheap as possible with the most preformance around 200-300 since i'll be needing to pick up a new PSU and MOBO probably.. So low side of 200 would be best..

 

In that case, id go with nVidia. AMD is usually better suited for more displays than your using.

 

Go with a GTX 760 or 770.

~Judah

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No budget so GTX 780Ti.

 

 

But really, r9 280x or 290 or gtx 770 or gtx 780.

Evga gtx 780Ti Classified, even tastier.. Mmm.. Performance
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Evga gtx 780Ti Classified, even tastier.. Mmm.. Performance

Evga 780ti kingpin edition 4way sli, even more tastier..

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A R9 280X would be a good choice if you can find one for around 300. If not, a 7950 would be a good choice: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-111961920g

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Lmao at the 780ti suggestion. Yea, if you want to piss away money. 

 

I'd suggest a 280x or a 290 that ships w/ Battlefield 4. 

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I'd suggest the R9 290 as its the current best performance for the money card out there (well, minus the current price gouging) and that way you can keep the rig all AMD!

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