R9 280x Double D Black Edition or MSI GTX 770 Twin Frozr

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Hi guys trying to decide between the R9 280x Double D Black Edition or MSI GTX 770 Twin Frozr, I can get the R9 280x for £209.99 and the Msi Gtx 770 for £218.99, I know the R9 280x Double D runs about 4-5c cooler than the Twin Frozr Msi Gtx 770 but the 770 performs slightly better than R9 280x. I currently play on a 1680x1050 monitor and have an I5 4670k and 8GB of Corsair Ram but I am hoping to move up to either 1920x1080, 1440p or 4k all depending on how the pricing for them comes down, I would also like to SLI/Crossfire the card in the future for 1440p or 4k to get playable fps. I mostly game and play games like Arma 2/3 Battlefield 4 and other future titles like Gta V when it is released, I also have a YouTube channel that I am partnered on and would like to be able record most games at highish settings at either my current resolution or 1080p/1440p in the future with SLI/Crossfire. I am really stuck on what card to get? Or whether to get a completely different card to these. Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
Thanks - Lewis
 
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I too would vote green.

Seriously though, take a look at the respective card's performance is based on the games you play.

The 280x and the 770 trade blows depending on what games you play.

The 280x has the "mantle" sales pitch.

The 770 has "shadowplay", and the "Geforce experience".

Realistically they are pretty close.
 
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From benchmarks the MSI 770 reaches about 71c under load while the XFX r9 280x reaches around 57c which I thought would be the opposite considering I had heard that the R9 series ran really hot, taking those temperatures into account surely considering how close their performance is and that the R9 is about £20 cheaper and runs cooler that it would make it a better choice for future crossfireing? But I have read that crossfire is currently not as good as SLI'ing is performance wise?
 
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I would personally not sli or crossfire, but if I was, I would lean to Nvidia for long standing better reputation and driver support.

I am a completely unfaithful consumer (with exception to buying Gigabyte motherboards). I have owned Nvidia and AMD GPU depending on who is selling the better card for the better price (and game bundles at times do play a part into the persuasion of price/performance value).

As such, I typically stay out of the whole AMD/Nvidia debate. GTX 770 won for me this time around because at the time the AMD 280s were running 100$ over MSRP (if you could find them), and I got 3 games with the 770 to boot.
 
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And P.S. if you are running a single monitor, MINIMUM fps is your more important value. Maximum FPS doesn't make much a different when you are getting 100+ FPS, but if your game drops to 10FPS you are going to notice it...
 
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