Would getting a GTX 690 be okay in my current situation?

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Arishok N7

Arishok N7

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I sold my GPU to help pay some things off and that's obviously left me with no credible GPU. I'm wanting to spend around $200ish. I was thinking about the GTX 960, R9 380 or even the 380x. The thing is I plan to upgrade again maybe by the end of the year. I've seen GTX 690's go for $200ish on Ebay. The GTX 690 is still a pretty powerful card limited by it's VRAM. Benchmark wise I've seen it beat even the 970 in lots of games. Looking for some non biased opinions.
 
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Honest opinion that 690 is a still very good but in recent driver updates they have left the 6XX series not properly optimized on new games. I still have my gtx 680 and the feel on the new games is kind of not optimized unlike the 9XX series but 200$ for 690 is a steal already and is still powerfull. Problem only for that is the driver compatibility since it uses 2 gpus which I hate to say it but dual gpus are sometimes not good unless the driver is good unlike a single gpu which is less problems on the games. work around for that is just use single gpu of 690 which is still good. I would go for it since 960 is just almost equal to half of the 690 and if lucky good driver dual gpu support on new games would be better on your current selections. hope this helps :)
 
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Arishok N7

Arishok N7

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Most of the used 970's are a little more than I'm willing to pay. You can't just buy any used card. My issues with the 960 are that several other older gen cards beat it and like the 690 it has 2GB's of VRAM.
 
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