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SmelliotButton

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Hi, I bought a Zoostorm PC a while ago, and I have decided to upgrade it to make it better for gaming.

Here are my current specs:
i7 3770 @ 3.4GHz
8GB DDR3 RAM
ASUS P8H61-MX 2.0
1TB HDD
300W Power Supply
Zoostorm case
No graphics card

The upgrades I am going to make:
Corsair 750w Modular PSU
Corsair Graphite 230T Case
Sapphire Toxic R9 280X

So. My question.
Will the graphics card be too much for my current setup? Or is it ok.

Thanks,
SmelliotButton
 
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larkspur
With the new case, PSU and GPU you'll have an excellent gaming machine. I don't see any problems with your proposed setup - it looks great. Have fun!
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StormyIV

StormyIV

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You're putting in a 750 watt power supply and your CPU is good so it will be fine for your current set up. Also check out the gtx 770 its the same as the r9 280x in terms of performance but I think its currently cheaper.
 
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AlexSmith96

AlexSmith96

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you're perfect in your changes, but try getting a 770.
In current real time performance, the gtx 770 shows a bit extra performance than the r9 280x.
Therefore, if you want higher performance with Advanced PhysX (not PhysX,OK) go for 770.
If you're more excited of project Mantle, which is further delayed by AMD and may take time to appear in other gaming titles than bf4, you Can! go for 280x. (knowing that it is currently overpriced due to bitcoin thing)
Lets Compare.Performance wise the gigabyte 770 is 10% better than 280x.
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3X OC Edition are very slightly better than the AMD Radeon R9 280X.The GTX 770 has a 287 MHz higher core clock speed but fewer Texture Mapping Units than the Radeon R9 280X. The lower TMU count doesn't matter, though, as altogether the GTX 770 manages to provide 36.7 GTexel/s better texturing performance.The GTX 770 having 204.8 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the Radeon R9 280X performs better when taking into account other relevant data.
If I were you , I would buy the 770.
 
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