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Should I buy this 7970 on sale or wait?

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November 5, 2013 3:35:11 AM

A local seller is selling: his radeon 7970 2gb reference card for $200
should I just buy this or wait for black friday/cyber monday and hope for a 280x to go on sale?
or should I get the new r9 290 for 400$ when it comes out?

im a 1080p gamer and want to have smooth frames on max/ultra settings

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November 5, 2013 3:38:26 AM

Wait.
Let's see what r9 290 brings to the table.
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November 5, 2013 3:42:32 AM

If you can afford the $400 for the R9 290, I'd wait and get the Non-referenced Coolers from Saphhire, Asus, Gigabyte, XFX, or HIS and you will be rocking good!

Check out Tom's review of the R9 290!!!!
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November 5, 2013 4:08:14 AM

yeah..r9290 is a beast (both performance and heat)..

so, that's mean you have to add your budget to buy decent cooling, something like ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme III $75 will extract all of this hawaii performance..total $475

but still much better option than $500 780..
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November 5, 2013 4:25:45 AM

Reference card? 2GB vram? nothx

Wait for the 280X to go on sale. One is enough to play current games like BF4 Ultra @ 1080p
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