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for my situation... please advise me whether i should buy 760 / 800 series or keep my current VGA?

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March 19, 2014 9:57:14 AM

alrighty so, i just build my first PC earlier this month.

i didn't look at the build details when picking parts, just the functionality. now that it's all built.. i think the back of a VGA board aren't that interesting to look at, and i want a backplate.

now onto my specific situation. the price of VGA where i live is quite inflated.
i bought my MSI R9 270X for $290. if i sell it right now i might get $235-$240 optimistic estimation.

the price of a MSI 760 Hawk or 760 mini itx is the same at $335. that's a $100 extra i have to shell out.

financially and weighting on performance difference between the two, is it worth a $100 extra or should i wait for 800 series instead?
ps: there will never be any price drop here other than dollar rate going up / down, just fyi :D 

2) i read from 1 review site that idle - load of msi 760 mini itx is 26 db - 31 db.
while msi 760 hawk is 26 db - 30 db

how loud is 1 db difference in real life?

cheerss

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March 19, 2014 10:04:50 AM

Hi,
The GTX 760 is only on average 7-8% more powerful than the R9 270X. So $100 more for that performance boost is not very smart.
Btw you have to be an alien to hear the difference of 1db in real life
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March 24, 2014 5:23:44 AM

Your GPU is good enough for a few years. Hell, I still have a 7950 and I play EVERYTHING on full details. Only game that can make it lag so far is SC2 when we've got hundreds/thousands of units on the screen (custom maps), but I'm not even sure it's the GPU's fault, cuz SC2 can only use 2 CPU cores :( .
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