Upgrading my GPU

[ChuckFx]

Hello,

I just sold my ''old'' EVGA GTX 670 FTW 2GB and I am actively looking for a replacement.

I have a 400-599$ budget for my next card. 3 cards are in my sight.

The AMD R9 290x, the 290 and the Nvidia GTX 780.

My higest criterias are in equal mesure Price-Performance-Future-proof

I want to play BF4 with everything maxed out at 60FPS @ 1080p

There are also plans to buy a second card to Xfire/SLI

As of right now, I play on a sigle display, Asus 24inch VS248H but I plan on getting a higer res screen whithin the next 12 months.

My rig:
Mobo ASUS Sabertooth 990FX V.1
CPU AMD FX-8350 (not OC'd)
PSU Corsair H1050w
RAM Sniper G.Skill 2X4gb 1866
Storage Intel SSD 330 Serie 180GB / Crucial 120G SSD/ Seagate 2TB 5400 OS Windows 8 64bit PRO

I will not buy until the end of the month since it is one of the best time of the year in computer gear and because the new 200 series of AMD will have their non-ref coolers out...

What would be the best choice given the situation/hardware I have right now?

 

[SolMiester]

The best choice as you have already pointed out, is wait for aftermarket versions of 290\x, as the current version really is a let down in terms of finished product IMO.

However I would be tempted to get a ghz version of 780 and call it a day...

 

[lehtv]

For that CPU, in general anything more than a 280X is overkill though even then you can see bottlenecking in CPU intensive games.

I can't imagine why you'd want to Xfire/SLI on an FX-8350. If you're itching to spend money then get Haswell 4770K.

Personally I'd have kept the GTX 670 FTW and would then have aimed to upgrade the CPU and the GPU in <1 year because the 670 is quite a good match for that CPU.

 

[ChuckFx]

For that CPU, in general anything more than a 280X is overkill though even then you can see bottlenecking in CPU intensive games.

I can't imagine why you'd want to Xfire/SLI on an FX-8350. If you're itching to spend money then get Haswell 4770K.

Personally I'd have kept the GTX 670 FTW and would then have aimed to upgrade the CPU and the GPU in <1 year because the 670 is quite a good match for that CPU.

I had an issue between my old PSU and the 670 so I took the chance to sell both and it was a very good timing, the GPU still had a good re-sell value but it will fall down alot in the next few months. the time was right to sell it and retake much of the original value.

The new CPU is for the end of summer 2014 and I will wait to XFire/SLI for that moment..

Besides, FX-8350 is a marginal bottleneck to a r9 290x..

 

[bonehead123]

from everything I've read, I would agree with waiting on a non-reference 290x, perhaps even an overclocked one with a bad-ass cooler and maybe even some more vram

 

[Aithos]

I had an issue between my old PSU and the 670 so I took the chance to sell both and it was a very good timing, the GPU still had a good re-sell value but it will fall down alot in the next few months. the time was right to sell it and retake much of the original value.

The new CPU is for the end of summer 2014 and I will wait to XFire/SLI for that moment..

Besides, FX-8350 is a marginal bottleneck to a r9 290x..

I would strongly recommend against the FX-8350 if the primary use of your system is gaming. It gets destroyed by the Intel CPUs for gaming, you don't need a 4770k, the i5-4670k is a much better gaming CPU than the AMD offering.

As for GPU, if you intend to upgrade to a dual GPU setup I'd recommend an aftermarket 780 or save a little more for a 780ti. I'm partial to the EVGA superclocked models (or classified) which for the 780 run between $510-$550 or so and come with the holiday gaming bundle for the next few weeks. The classified in particular is very overclockable, highly recommend that card.

 

[Pandora's Box]

If he's going SLI/Xfire he will want the 4770K.