Lionheart360 :
Casper Larsen :
If you are impatient and have no more time to wait, I would go with the 770. EVGA or ASUS.
The whole mining phase is still affecting the availability .
I'm building in about a month (late february/early march), so I don't the availability of the 280x's will increase at all. If I did get a gtx 770, should I go for the 4gb vram edition just to be future-proof? Mantle was also a big pro for the 280x so does Nividia have anything to counter it with? Looking at the benchmarks, the 770 still falls behind the 280x in a lot if not most games.
Are you running several monitors during games? If not, then screw the rams.
All reviews comparisons ive seen show that there is little to no difference between a 2 gb and a 4 gb 770.
we know very little about mantle at this stage....I am not in the least dismissing it one bit, but we know very little about mantle despite hype. It could be awesome...hell, maybe even a game changer(although I DOUBT that).
I have a principal that applies to not only AMD, but only Nvidia and to every single other hardware producer.
Don't get carried away with hype. I can't tell you how often I heard that one company would completely outmuscle the other because of this upcoming thing......Game changers like that happen all the time, but wait until you see the results.
Lets say that mantle is a great success....How long before a majority of the games you want to play has mantle? WHO KNOWS!?...you might even want a new card by that time.
Prepare for the present. Future proving doesn't exist.
What NVidia offers instead of mantle: Nvidia has PhysX, and Eyefinity....Also better software in my opinion and their cards are build better.
But both the 280x and the 770 are great cards. Which brand of 280x or 770 is up to your own preferences...There is only TINY differences between two different versions of the same card.
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