What GPU to get to avoid bottleneck?

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Volk81

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Hi there,

I'd like some advice on which graphics card to buy. I've been looking at either Nvidia's 970 or AMD's 290x. In Australia the latter is actually slightly cheaper at the moment.

However my main concern is whether I'll be getting the best bang for buck from these cards given that my system is a little old. I have an i5 2500k (3.30 GHz) with 8gig of ram. Should I be considering a cheaper and lower performing card instead? If so, which would you recommend?

Thanks in advance.
 
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yep they cut the price hard to become competitive. it is your choice. personally i don't really mind about the power consumption but i do mind about noise. also it is might not important right now but 970 have full support for DX12 (including DX11.3) while 290X will only have partial support for DX12 and no support for DX11.3 (since it requires new hardware).
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970. Faster, cooler, more power efficient and quieter than the 290x. If it's cheaper as well it's a no brainer (assuming this is for gaming). Your 2500k should work fine. Like renz said, if you can OC the i5 on your motherboard you can squeeze some more performance out of it.
 
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yep they cut the price hard to become competitive. it is your choice. personally i don't really mind about the power consumption but i do mind about noise. also it is might not important right now but 970 have full support for DX12 (including DX11.3) while 290X will only have partial support for DX12 and no support for DX11.3 (since it requires new hardware).
 
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can you make DX10 card run DX11? that is the point here. and so far AMD only mention full support for DX12 for their GCN at general level. did they fully compliant with MS DX12? as it is their hardware doesn't even have the hardware for DX11.3 that currently exist in second generation maxwell.

 
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Here are the facts:

Your CPU will not bottleneck either card.

970 uses less power and could be a little quieter but is in the same performance class.

Both should at least partially support DX12. We made not see 100% support of DX12 until GPUs are released after it's design
 
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