Guys which video card should I choose at up to $250 price range? Which will last? There's Asus 760x, MSI 760x, and EVGA 660?

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Alright so my motherboard is
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z97mpro4
With this one I can upgrade my parts in time without buying much, the cards I've seen so far are these
EVGA- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130826&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

MSI- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127745&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

Asus- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121775&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

If there is a better card for those price ranged please let me know, this will be my first build pc and wanted to get a good decent video card to play almost everything I throw at it. I was first leaning more towards the ASUS card but what do you guys think?I will play MMO's but didn't expect to get a pc so hopefully play stuff on steam as well and stuff like Battlefield 4. My CPU is going to be Intel Pentium G3258 until I can upgrade it later to an i5. Any advice will be greatly appreciated as this will be my first built pc.
 

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Yea it seems like a good card, I just want to make sure it lasts me a good amount of time. Seems these cards will either arrive good or bad as some people give bad reviews and some give pretty good ones. Don't want anything bad to happen to my first card really.
 

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I went and searched this "r9 280" great price, checking the performance on it and some good reviews and then I fell into the whole AMD vs NVIDIA stuff, oh lord. I'm now debating between the ASUS r9 280 and the Asus 760x not 280x as it's more expensive and performance won't be a huge jump upgrading to that I think. Which to choose...I might just make another post showing my whole build to see what I should do.
 

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Both cards are similar in performance, and each has their own benefits. In terms of fps the R9 280 should have a slight lead over the 760.

After the bit coin trend fell the prices of AMD's graphics cards dropped dramatically and that's why you can find them for $30 less than a GTX 760. Because of the price difference I would consider the R9 280. Here's the cheapest one right now for $199 post rebate:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-r9280dc2t3gd5