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Wait for R9 290X or get a GTX780

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October 7, 2013 5:19:52 AM

Hi,

Iam making a list of items i want for my new computer untill yesterday everything was fine.
Untill i got mail from the pc shop they dont sell the HD7990 anymore since AMD took them out.
So what to do now, get SLI setup with GTX780 or wait a bit and get R9 290X in Crossfire?

The rest of the system,

ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
Intel® Core™ i7-4960X
2x Corsair 32 GB DDR3-2133 Quad-Kit, geheugen
Enermax EPM1500EGT Platimax, 1500 Watt voeding
2x Samsung 840 EVO MZ-7TE250KW, 250 GB SSD
2x Western Digital Black, 2 TB
Pioneer BDR-208DBK, Blu-ray
Cooler Master COSMOS II

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October 7, 2013 5:26:31 AM

sincreator said:
Since the new cards will be released next week, you should at least wait to see what happens to the pricing. The price of the GTX 780 is expected to drop. The Titan and GTX 770 are expected to drop as well....
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-planning-price-cuts-geforce-...



But not money wise, if we are only looking for true power in the system ?
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October 7, 2013 6:17:54 AM

Brian Vogelenzang said:
sincreator said:
Since the new cards will be released next week, you should at least wait to see what happens to the pricing. The price of the GTX 780 is expected to drop. The Titan and GTX 770 are expected to drop as well....
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-planning-price-cuts-geforce-...



But not money wise, if we are only looking for true power in the system ?


The R9-290X is expected to easily beat the 780, and is supposedly able to pass the Titan as well in terms of pure performance.
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October 7, 2013 6:30:56 AM

What resolution is your monitor? If you are on a single monitor, I recommend either a single GTX 780 or GTX 770's in SLI.

Here are a couple other reasons to choose the GTX 780:
1) PhysX, there are actually some really cool games on the way that feature full GPU-accelerated APEX PhysX. The list of upcoming games includes: Call of Duty: Ghosts, Batman: Arkham Origins, and the Witcher 3, in addition to the great games like Borderlands 2 and Metro Last Light that are already out. Batman: Arkham Origins.

- Basically, the factory overclocked GTX 780 models are almost as fast as a Titan for $350 less (if you decide to view it from that angle, it's a good deal).As a bonus only Nvidia cards allow you to enable Ambient Occlusion in those games, which significantly affects how nearly everything in the game looks. In the graphic below, Skyrim on AMD cards looks like the "AO: Off" picture.



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October 7, 2013 6:31:42 AM

It would still be best to wait as there is no definitive information and real-world statistics on the 290X yet. I would wait for people to mess with it a little and read a couple of reviews to be sure which card offers better performance.
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October 7, 2013 6:40:08 AM

Anomandaris said:
It would still be best to wait as there is no definitive information and real-world statistics on the 290X yet. I would wait for people to mess with it a little and read a couple of reviews to be sure which card offers better performance.
That's a good choice as well it's up to you OP.

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