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I plan to purchase a graphic card to play latest games including COD AW. I've selected R9 270X cards (available in India and within my budget) and 4 GB to make it future proof at least for some time and also to keep the option of adding another card in a crossfire setup later. Help me make the right choice.

1. MSI R9 270X GAMING 4G 4 GB at Rs.17250
2. Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon R9 270X with Boost OC 4 GB DDR5 at Rs.16898
3. Sapphire AMD/ATI Dual-X R9 270X 4GB at Rs.15794

My system specs:
CPU: i3 3225
Motherboard: Biostar TZ77XE3
PSU: Seasonic Bronze 850W
Memory: GSKILL 12 GB 1600 MHZ hyperthreaded
HDD: Two 1TB and one 500GB
Monitor: Acer 23" LED
Cabinet: Lancool PC-K57

Thanks in advance.
 
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Honestly 4gb on the 270x is pointless. By the time your video card hits even 2gb of memory the rest of it will already be maxed out anyway. I would say that even less than 2gb memory use and the card would be delivering less than desired performance anyway. By this I mean under 30fps. It will give no extra performance at all having the extra 2gb of ram.
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Honestly 4gb on the 270x is pointless. By the time your video card hits even 2gb of memory the rest of it will already be maxed out anyway. I would say that even less than 2gb memory use and the card would be delivering less than desired performance anyway. By this I mean under 30fps. It will give no extra performance at all having the extra 2gb of ram.
 
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Thank you for your response.

COD AW recommends 4 GB and maybe future games will too. Further, if I add another GPU card in crossfire won't 4 GB help. OR Would you suggest a better 2GB card near to my budget. Also, my main worry is whether the i3 will be a bottleneck.
 
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For crossfire it would help, yes. And yes most likely your i3 will be a bottleneck in CPU limited titles running crossfire. You may be better off with a single more powerful card honestly, like a r9 290/290x. One of those would get bottlenecked as well in the same way, but you always have the option to grab an i5/i7 when you have the money.
 
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R9 290x Tri-X OC costs ~30K and its recommended PSU is 750W. Although I've a 850W PSU, considering the other components (plus DVD RW and a dual port Intel GB LAN card) and the fact that I have a high speed internet connection (50 Mbps), will this effect overall system performance.

Secondly, will the on-board sound suffice or will a separate card be required for games.

Once again, thanks for your help and patience.
 
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