is Installing a Geforce gtx 970 video card with and AMD A10 7850K a bad idea?

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far_side2004

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ASUS A88X-Pro mobo, with an AMD A10 7850K APU and 16bg DDR3 1866 RAM. I have been using dual graphics with a Radeon R7 250 gpu, and I'm not impressed. I want to throw out the dual graphics and go for a higher end gpu. I'm looking to buy a EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Superclocked ACX 2.0, (Website http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=04G-P4-2974-KR) so I can have a more powerful gpu. My question is will this setup cause huge bottlenecking? Is it worth buying this card, or should I buy a cheaper card. I want to get the most out of my system. Any suggestions would be great.
 
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AMD Mantle games will do a lot better with your APU (CPU bottleneck is reduced with Mantle) so a 290x/290/280x would be fine, where ever the deal is. All would be MUCH faster than your 250s.
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It's an ok match, a faster processor would get you more min/avg fps, a card in the 770/960/280x would be have less bottlenecks but also less overall GPU horsepower. Consider a 290x if you play any games that support Mantle.

Is a new CPU upgrade within a year? If so it's be ok to get a faster GPU now but if not you'd be better suited with the next tier down.
 
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Well to be honest I wont be able to upgrade my cpu and buy a new mobo for a while, probably few years. So the R9 290X would be better?
 
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I'm looking to do triple monitor gaming with better results than dual graphics offers. I'm not looking to triple monitor High GPU demanding games. I want the best for my current setup.

 
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