Buy a GTX 780 or wait it out to see what price the R9 290x lightning comes out with?

wombocombo

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Hi all, I'm going to be building my first ever PC very soon and I was looking at the R9 290x vs GTX 780 and decided the 780 was the better choice thanks to the cooling solution, but as I was about to order, a friend linked a article about the new R9 290x lightning (cooling solution)..

Any ideas what price the 290x lightning will come at?
 

Keivz

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Just get the GTX 780. Though the 290x is certainly the faster card, the 780 GTX will be considerably cheaper than the custom R9 290x (if you can even find a 290x... those that you do find will be horribly over priced due to the markup caused by lite-coin miners). Plus, the 780 GTX comes with game bundles (I suggest Zotac's AMP edition from amazon--you get The Splinter Cell Collection and Assassin's Creed Black IV Flag to boot). The 290x/290 have theoretical advantages (AMD to AMD conversions from console games, more VRAM, Mantle) but those are all theoretical, whereas in the here and now, the 780 GTX is more than capable, cheaper, and comes with game bundles.

Oh, and to answer your question, the 290x lightning while having an MSRP in or around $569-$579, will more than likely be priced at around $649 as is the current price of these AIC boards.
 

wombocombo

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Yeah you have some interesting points in there. Especially about the miners! Will probably take the Asus 780 though as I'm at the tip of my budget as it is with these specs:

I7 4770k
Asus z87-A
Corsair H100i
Asus GTX 780
Corsair Vengeance 8gb
Samsung Evo 250gb SSD
Western Digital 1tb Caviar black
Corsair 300R case
Corsair CX600 PSU