Looking for a good graphics card and PSU combo on the market for my rig for gaming.

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APU: AMD A8-6600K Quad Core 3.9GHz (can go 4.2 but I don't have a reason to overclock)
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon HD 8570D
8GB Kingston DDR3 RAM 1600MHz
1000GB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm, 64MB cache Hard Disk
Power Supply 500W WinPower Plus ad-e500ae-a5/a6
Motherboard GIGABYTE ga-f2a58m

My current specs are above. I recently wanted to upgrade and in order to get a new graphics card I need a new PSU. I have been looking on newegg and they had nice prices on graphics card such as GTX 960 around £125 along with a free copy of the new Batman. The R9 280 is around the same price and the R9 280x is about £15 more. I know recently the new R9 series came out as well and I was looking at the 380. My budget is around £150-170 and I need a good PSU to pair with these cards since mine is really bad and has no PCIE connection. Can anyone give me any ideas on what graphics card to choose along with a suitable PSU to pair with it. I have done a lot of research on these cards but it seems to be people debating about the companies more than the cards which is off putting :/ I am aiming to play Witcher 3 around High/ Ultra so that's why I am looking to get my first mid range card :D
 
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You won't be getting as good graphic quality as with 960/280 but you will have easy gpu upgrade later then.
+ you get higher quality PSU. Which you can then move on the new pc build.

Because honestly, it's not just gpu which needs upgrade.
You need to upgrade cpu fairly soon too.

joekevinholland

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Ok thank you. It's weird people were recommending the cards I mentioned and but I will consider your choices as well. It will save me a couple of pounds as well.
 


You won't be getting as good graphic quality as with 960/280 but you will have easy gpu upgrade later then.
+ you get higher quality PSU. Which you can then move on the new pc build.

Because honestly, it's not just gpu which needs upgrade.
You need to upgrade cpu fairly soon too.
 
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Yeah I was purely wanted to get a new graphics card and PSU so I can start adding to my build. The prices for them GPU's are extremely close now between the GTX 960, R9 270x and even the 280. I was thinking of getting the GTX 960 for £125 because it had the new Batman game and I was going to just sell the game code on eBay or something and make money back. I'm only starting to add parts now since I saved money but I think if I save afterwards I can probably save up for a new Motherboard and CPU, go for an i5 or something.