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Sup bros, so my gaming PC is getting a bit long in the tooth graphics wise and I guess an upgrade is due. Currently I have a GTX 570 (rest of the system specs are in my sig) and it's now a bit too slow to play everything on high. I currently have a 1080p monitor and probably won't upgrade to 4k any time soon.

I want to play games at 1080p on Very High/Ultra settings at least till mid 2017, what would my best bet be for a new GPU? I'm an AMD fan boi at heart but after the GTX570 its hard to say no to the green :D team. A cheaper GPU would also allow me to get an SSD and maybe a further 8gb of RAM for my gaming rig. The other thing is the effect that the weak rand has on the price of components, if I buy now would I be getting less for my money than i would in the future?

Personally I think the price/performance sweet spot right now for the card i'm looking for lies somewhere in between the GTX970 and GTX960. Thing is, I don't think such a card exists.
 
I think you should rather be looking at a full system upgrade somewhere in the future.

e.g. CPU is 4 year old tech so asking it to last till mid 2017 is ambitious especially against "Very High/Ultra settings" criteria.

You can temporarily patch this with a new GFX certainly...but start saving bro.

SSD - always worthwhile...but personally I'm expecting a big jump in the tech that side so I'm delaying my next SSD purchase.
 
I would recommend upgrade to gtx 970 . 960 is a bit weak for ultra settings ,have tested the 960 personally.

I tend to keep my 3770k rig with 12gb ram at least for another 2 years :p (1 ram slot is broken )

After that get 16gb ram and a SSD.
 
KiLLa007 said:
Sup bros, so my gaming PC is getting a bit long in the tooth graphics wise and I guess an upgrade is due. Currently I have a GTX 570 (rest of the system specs are in my sig) and it's now a bit too slow to play everything on high. I currently have a 1080p monitor and probably won't upgrade to 4k any time soon.

I want to play games at 1080p on Very High/Ultra settings at least till mid 2017, what would my best bet be for a new GPU? I'm an AMD fan boi at heart but after the GTX570 its hard to say no to the green :D team. A cheaper GPU would also allow me to get an SSD and maybe a further 8gb of RAM for my gaming rig. The other thing is the effect that the weak rand has on the price of components, if I buy now would I be getting less for my money than i would in the future?

Personally I think the price/performance sweet spot right now for the card i'm looking for lies somewhere in between the GTX970 and GTX960. Thing is, I don't think such a card exists.
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http://www.wootware.co.za/gigabyte-gv-r938wf2oc-2gd-256-bit-pci-e-desktop-graphics-card.html

http://www.wootware.co.za/powercolo...it-pci-express-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html

And if you look here you will see that the 380 is between the 970 and 960:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
 
http://www.wootware.co.za/galax-97n...it-pci-express-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html
http://www.wootware.co.za/powercolo...it-pci-express-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html
http://www.wootware.co.za/powercolo...it-pci-express-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html

Personally I think the price/performance sweet spot right now for the card i'm looking for lies somewhere in between the GTX970 and GTX960. Thing is, I don't think such a card exists.
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There is no such card, the R9 280X & R9 380 are a bit stronger than the gtx 960 but not like halfway between the 960-970 strong. Also will not do max/ultra on all games.
http://www.wootware.co.za/powercolo...it-pci-express-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html
http://www.wootware.co.za/powercolo...it-pci-express-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html
 
 
HavocXphere said:
I think you should rather be looking at a full system upgrade somewhere in the future.

e.g. CPU is 4 year old tech so asking it to last till mid 2017 is ambitious especially against "Very High/Ultra settings" criteria.

You can temporarily patch this with a new GFX certainly...but start saving bro.

SSD - always worthwhile...but personally I'm expecting a big jump in the tech that side so I'm delaying my next SSD purchase.
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I think the 2500k should be good till at least mid-2017, especially overclocked. Check the link below.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

6k is a bit much for me to justify spending on a gpu at the moment, so i think the 970 can maybe be eliminated from the equation. The R9 290 is going for 4k on Wootware, that is only R600 more than the R9 380, I think maybe that'll be a better bet.
 
KiLLa007 said:
The R9 290 is going for 4k on Wootware, that is only R600 more than the R9 380, I think maybe that'll be a better bet.
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It's a good buy if your PSU allows for it. Your CPU OC'ed will still be ok I reckon.
 
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