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Rage96

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Hello everyone, I'm kind of at an in pass of what to do with my computer upgrade.

First my specs as of now:
Asus M5A97 R2.0
750 psu
8 GB Ram
Fx-8320
EVGA geforce 770 2GB

Here my story,
My brother inlaw did bitcoin mining and had tons of video card (over 30 R9 280x 3GB) moved out of down and and he could not sell all of them so he gave me 2 of them.

So here is my ordeal, I found out my motherboard sucks for crossfire so do In:

1)Sell my 770 and motherboard to get a good motherboard for crossfire R9.

2)stick with my motherboard and just try and sell the 2 R9s and get a nvidia around 400-500.

I'm just unsure if I should spend the money on the upgrade. The R9s in crossfire seem good enough and cheaper to just upgrade the motherboard and just move my 770 to my htpc (replace the 660 in the htpc).

I just don't want to spend to much money upfront and maby my cards don't sell. $150-200 for a motherboard is a better hits to my creditcard then $500 nvidia.

Thanks everyone, oh if I do keep the R9s what is a good motherboard for crossfire around $200.
 
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+1 for jbaker22's suggestion, sell all 3 and if need be make up the difference with cash and consider the 1070. It will be released fairly soon, should be within your budget, will outperform the 980 etc. Then you'll have a strong single card which is almost always the preference. Neither sli or crossfire scale 100% so it doesn't double performance and vram doesn't stack either. Amd's cards can be pretty power hungry in crossfire and not all games play well with multi gpu configurations.
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Coolboy951 said:
the GTX 980 crushes the 280x but the 290x is better than the 980 for that i would go for the 980 cause its more powerful and can run bf4 at 1440p at ultra with over 60 fps


Just a question, in what way is R9 290x better than GTX 980?
Sell the 280x and get a gtx 980 for $450.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121905&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=IGNEFL052716&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL052716-_-EMC-052716-Index-_-DesktopGraphicsCards-_-14121905-S1A1B


Here are facts that it's not better. GTX 980 is still the best single GPU out in the market today.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2422187/gtx-980-280x.html (For the OP. I used to have R9 280x in crossfire. I traded it in for GTX 980 because to me, Nvidia has better drivers than AMD and GTX 980 destroys the R9 280x. I'm about to get my second one tomorrow!)
 
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Rage96

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Thanks Jbaker for the info, but the gtx 980 is around 600 here in Canada and way over my 500$ max.

I could afford an gtx 970 or R9 390 for around 450$.

The gtx 980 is out of my price range.

Also as I'm not to picky about highend FPS.
 
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Rage96

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Its all good jbaker, my fault I should have thought about the difference in usd and cnd.

Also I did not mind the performance of the gtx 770 and the 280X. Works good for fallout 4 (avg. 60fps) and dying light (avg. 45fps) etc.

Its just when I get to the city in fallout that my frames drops to around 30fps.

I swapped the 280x in and tryed it out and it was about the same as the 770.
 
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Rage96

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Think I will just sell all three cards and buy an R9 390X. I know this card is pretty much an upgraded R9 290X.

I would love to get the gtx 980, but the price is past my limit. So have to settle for a card (R9 390X) that clocks between an gtx 970/980.
 
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Rage96

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Thanks for the info, I might just do that since reading up on it, it will be coming out in a month.

Thanks again.

 
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+1 for jbaker22's suggestion, sell all 3 and if need be make up the difference with cash and consider the 1070. It will be released fairly soon, should be within your budget, will outperform the 980 etc. Then you'll have a strong single card which is almost always the preference. Neither sli or crossfire scale 100% so it doesn't double performance and vram doesn't stack either. Amd's cards can be pretty power hungry in crossfire and not all games play well with multi gpu configurations.
 
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