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I'm shopping for a graphics card. What would be a good fit with this system? Can anyone advise?

ASUS M5A99FX motherboard
AMD FX 6300 CPU
XFX Pro650W PSU
Samsung 840EVO SSD
Western Digital 1TB hard drive
Samsung Optical drive
Gskill Ripjaws 2X4GB RAM

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I know what you mean :)
Anyways, here we go.

AMD - I recommend an R9 270(x) a 7850, or an R7 260x.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202087 <---- This is the 7850. Very powerful for its . $170. Also look at the 7870s.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125486 <---- This R7 260x also comes with 2 free games. A bit weaker than the 7850.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125491 <---- This R7 270 (non-x) is between the 260x and 270x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202063 <---- This R9 270x has the most power out of all these cards (I'm not sure if this would cause bottlenecks, although I doubt it. Can anybody confirm this?)


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I was thinking that there is a card that would match the other components. For instance it wouldn't be worth buying a $500 card with other components that wouldn't allow the card to work at it's full potential. Similarly a really cheap card would mean that the CPU, mobo etc.. were too good for the card.

Does that make sense?
 
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I know what you mean :)
Anyways, here we go.

AMD - I recommend an R9 270(x) a 7850, or an R7 260x.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202087 <---- This is the 7850. Very powerful for its . $170. Also look at the 7870s.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125486 <---- This R7 260x also comes with 2 free games. A bit weaker than the 7850.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125491 <---- This R7 270 (non-x) is between the 260x and 270x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202063 <---- This R9 270x has the most power out of all these cards (I'm not sure if this would cause bottlenecks, although I doubt it. Can anybody confirm this?)


If you like Nvidia, here are some cards.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130825 <---- GTX 660: pretty powerful, comes with Assassins Creed 4 for free, $210
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130932 <---- GTX 760: pretty much a newer, more powerful 660, $250
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487028 <---- GTX 750 ti (I'm getting this for my PC): came out literally just a few days ago, a bit weaker than the 660, but uses substantially less power, $170


Hope this helps :D
 
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in most games, any modern CPU within the last 5 years or so can handle a 780, even in SLI, with little to no bottleneck. at it's worse, you'd be limited by CPU intensive games like Starcraft II which is notorious for being biased to intel CPUs, & unoptimized messes like ARMA 2/3.

http://www.hardwarepal.com/battlefield-4-benchmark-mp-cpu-gpu-w7-vs-w8-1/14/
http://www.hardwarepal.com/best-cpu-gaming-9-processors-8-games-tested/
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-processor-frame-rate-performance,3427.html

so really, you have a wide range to pick. it just comes down to the question of your budget.
 
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