swap from gtx 960 2gb to r9 290x ?

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i have reference palit gtx 960 and it work well for me with no issue. but when i came across a second-hand internet site that the owner wanted to sell are R9 290X that comes in 204.7 usd,pretty bargain huh? i'm not expert on this so any advice will be appreciated

so the question are, it is worth it, if i change the new graphic card to older graphic card what consecuences i will get, some says AMD have problem with recent title suchas witcher iii BUT not all games have problem with AMD plus change from mid end gpu to high end gpu will make a big shot for me, but i'm also don't want to make wrong shot because you know about AMD-Nvidia has very big gap in perfomance, efficency, conveniently and also price, so whats your advice?

P/S : an high end gpu priced at mid end price, the owner say he dont usualy use it and want to change for gtx 970, the reason behind it are owner want to use Nvidia for editing photoshop etc so he say nvidia is better but it not always true right :). to good to be true

edit: i new here, sorry for mischief

more edit : while i'm at it please give some advice

FX 8320e

GTX 960 2g (will change to R9 290X)

HyperX 4gb 1866

seagate barracuda 500gb

Aerocool kcas 600w 80 bronze

corsair spec 01

is it good?


 
It would be a boost in graphical performance. However, what model and brand is the R9 290X? Is it a reference R9 290X or non-reference? If it is a reference, take note that the cooler is very loud and your gpu will most likely run very hot (95C) under load and may throttle.
 

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That gpu look alike Sapphire brand Tri-x model, is it good, i heard sapphire are AMD specialist (or something like that)

 

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is it worth it, you know maybe i will get more performance and do i need to be careful?
 

jerdle

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Its a large upgrade, though with a lower end PSU @ 600W a spike in power draw could cause problems.

(a high quality 600W is really the minimum id recommend for a 290X, and yours is not high quality)

Will it work? Most likely. Just with a higher chance of PSU failure.
 

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ok, i go for S12G-750w Seasonic then, that will add my budget but better safe than sorry.

 

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