I am wondering which Card should I get 280 or GTX 960?

Ohburn

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So I was planning on building a new Pc on the budget of 700$ to 830$ (CANADIAN DOLLARS) And I was wondering Which graphics card should I get for games like
BF4 , GTA V and Witcher 3 hoping to get a fps lock of 60. Even just only high to medium settings for witcher would work for me and atleast Ultra on 60 for bf4.I am deciding To get the 280 or 960 but could not decide which one to get for price and performance wise. :D

Specs I'm building
PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/7Gz6ZL
Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/7Gz6ZL/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($169.99 @ NCIX)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($96.99 @ NCIX)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($69.99 @ NCIX)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($57.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 230T Black ATX Mid Tower Case ($84.99 @ DirectCanada)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($94.99 @ NCIX)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Memory Express)
Total: $589.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Hang on for a couple weeks.

AMD will be announcing a whole bunch of new cards Monday June 16th. Pricing will be changing if the rumors are true, and I believe they are. It will take a couple weeks to see the price changes hitting the vendors, and that may affect the decision on which card would the the best card for you for the money.
 

KeithGuitar

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I agree with MarkW. I work for Canada Computers. wait the 2 3 weeks. also forget FX chipset it's 3 years outdated. consider intel i3-4**** or A6-7*** series processor. You'll get PCIE 3.0 natively for your GPU and better efficiency on power consumption ( less $$ to waste on PSU)

Think... i5-4690k @4.2GB, corsair H100i watercooler, full size ATX mobo 8GB RAM, 256GB solid state drive + 1TB HDD and RADEON R9- 285. Running smoothy on a corsair CX550 PSU with over 20% room headway.