Gigabyte GTX 780 OC vs Sapphire R9 290X: VR EDITION (Star Citizen, Oculus Rift)

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So finally tomorrow, if the Lord wills, I will be ordering my pc, I'm almost completely sure of what I want, yet, I will ask.

R9 290X vs GTX 780 for the Rift and Star Citizen (on that precise hardware). I will also play, of course on a 1080 normal display, but right now, I'd like to know what would give me the most sterling performance (and hopefully 120 fps). Keep in mind heat -reasonably, explain it-, but not noise as I play games on headphones. I will not be able to grab a reference cooled model.

Note that grabing the GTX allows me to acquire 8gb extra ram, having a more ideal config for SC.

I'd love to have OR users commenting on their experience with each graphics card branch, too.
 
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I've already linked this a few times to people today, and the AMD fanboys have some extremely salty tears. It seems that the extra cooling doesnt provide as much improvement as everyone including myself though it would. And with the litecoin miners buying up all the AMD stock and the current 290/290x prices the 780 is a sweet sweet deal, even the Ti version with its price tag.

Edit: 290/780 Water bench vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqaHh-y51us
I personally have the asus direct cuii 780, while my friend has a reference 290x. Yes there are a few games he beats me in, but once i overclock my card even to save levels, i tend to smoke him in almost every game, and if he ever does beat me, it is only by 1 or 2%
 

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I've already linked this a few times to people today, and the AMD fanboys have some extremely salty tears. It seems that the extra cooling doesnt provide as much improvement as everyone including myself though it would. And with the litecoin miners buying up all the AMD stock and the current 290/290x prices the 780 is a sweet sweet deal, even the Ti version with its price tag.

Edit: 290/780 Water bench vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqaHh-y51us
 
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