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I am upgrading from my current build with a radeon 6870. I went to best buy and bought a gtx 760 thinking it was going to be a great improvement. I was disapointed. Here is my current build

Amd-FX 6300 OC 4.5Ghz
Asus m5a99 pro r2.0
G.skill 16gb 1866 Mhz
MSI Radeon 6870
Thermaltake 850W
7200 rpm seagate HDD

Not a great build but works nicely. I wanted the new graphics card hoping for an improvement in the new batman game. I spent $320 on the gtx 760 and when I benchmarked it through 3dmark 11 my score barely went up 2000 points on firestrike. With the 6870 I got a score of 3100 and with the 760 I got 5300. Upon snooping through newegg I see that the 770 is barely $10 more.

Now what I was thinking about doing was taking the card back to best buy and getting a refund, then buying the ASUS gtx 770 from newegg. I know that the processor is still going to hold everything back still but its what I have for now. And I really want to play this game with nice, smooth graphics. So should I buy an FX 8350 with the card, or should I wait and get an intel mobo and cpu in a few months like I was already planning?

Here is the mobo and Cpu that I am looking getting beginning of next year:
ASUS P9X79 PRO
Intel Core i7-4820K Ivy Bridge

Some ideas?
 
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the 760 is a moderate improvement... not a huge one. (10%-20%)

the 770 isn't much more of an improvement... another 10% on top of it. now you might notice a 20-30% improvement more then a 10-20% improvement.

You want a mindbreaking improvement get yourself a r9-290x or gtx 780.

that said, your cpu is fast enough to not be a significant bottleneck. with a moderate overclock it will give you almost i5 level performance. its doubtful you'll notice a huge difference going to the 8 core unless you're playing a fully threaded title like crysis3 or bf4
 
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For 6870 on fire strike
Graphics test 1: 15 fps
Graphics test 2: 13.6 fps
Physics test: 22.1 fps
Combined test: 6.41 fps

Gtx 760:
Graphics test 1: 31 fps
Graphics test 2: 28 fps
Physics test: 30 fps
Combined test: 11 fps
 
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The r9-290x and gtx 780 are way out of my price range. With the $320 I have invested already I can probably put in $10-20 more at max unfortunately.

Main games I will be playing are:
Batman Arkham Origins
Assassins Creed IV (once it comes out)
Crysis 3
and maybe a couple others but thats about it.
 
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wait till the r9-290 comes out... the way nvidia is price cutting the gtx780 we might see one of them in your pricerange in another week or two (there are already sightings of the 780 at $370 out there)
 
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What about running crossfire on a second radeon? Would it be pointless?
 
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so you doubled your frames. replace cpu or oc cpu.
 
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I could probably get more on the oc, the temps at max on current oc are less than 40c. But the reason I started questioning the 760 was when I was in the middle of playing batman yesterday after first getting it, and it would start glitching really bad, like killer croc would turn invisible during the fight even though I was still landing punches and lowering all the specs to low in game for graphic quality and thugs would have there head half way through the wall then just turn invisible but during detective vision it would say someone was there. Thats my graphics card right? Or is my computer causing problems?
 
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