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Would this make a good gaming pc

if you are willing to buy used, I've seen TONS of r9 270, and r9 270x's go for ~100$ shipped on the forums here. Just a thought! Could save you some money and get you better performance for the long term.
 
96Firebird said:
The 750Ti is $120, the 270 is $150. 270 is about 20% EDIT 30% faster (@1080p) than the 750Ti, but costs 25% more.

I'm shocked to see this from you, since you always advocate performance/$...
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For a few more dollars you get a better card that is what I would consider an entry level 1080P gaming GPU. The 750ti only makes sense when the PSU can't hack it and this is not the case. Also saying that the 270 is 20% faster is really vague as GPUs perform very different from game to game. I would say that the 270 is much faster in many more games than is the 750ti and that alone is reason enough to warrant the upgrade.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-750-ti-review,3750-14.html
 
96Firebird said:
The 750Ti is $120, the 270 is $150. 270 is about 20% faster (@1080p) than the 750Ti, but costs 25% more.

I'm shocked to see this from you, since you always advocate performance/$...
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Looks like you didn't read my post. The build with R9 270 is $498 USD. The build from the OP with 750Ti is $510. I told him to go with the 2nd build a the bottom of the page which includes R9 270 and costs less.

http://pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/45204-1st-gaming-pc-help-400-500

Also, can you please link a $120 750Ti 2GB card? The cheapest 2GB on Newegg is $130 + $5 shipping = $135. It comes with no games.

Sapphire R9 270 2GB with 2 free games is $145, or only $10 more for 20-24% more performance at 1080p. :hmm:

BTW, you also completely missed the point that when you are building a system, price/performance is applied to the total system cost, not to individual components!

Let's review again:

$500 with 750Ti rig (where 750Ti costs $135) = baseline performance = 100%

$510 with R9 270 rig (where R9 270 costs $145) => 24% more performance gives us a baseline of 124%

$530 with R9 270X rig (where R9 270X costs $165) => 40% more performance gives us a baseline of 140%

It's obvious the best choice for price/performance is a $500 rig with $30 extra spent towards R9 270X. When R9 270X provides nearly 40% more performance at 1080P and costs $165 with 2 free games, it's absolutely ludicrous to consider a 750Ti 2GB for $135 for a $500-530 gaming rig:
http://www.computerbase.de/2014-02/nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-ti-maxwell-test/5/#

If someone was ONLY upgrading the videocard, then we would compare price/performance of 1 videocard vs. another. Since the OP is putting together a new system from scratch and since videocards do not operate in a vacuum, you have to consider the total system cost in your calculation of price/performance. Clearly on that basis, R9 270 or R9 270X in his system is far superior than 750Ti 2GB.
 
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RussianSensation said:
Sapphire R9 270 2GB with 2 free games is $145, or only $10 more for 30+% more performance at 1080p. :hmm:

Let's review again:

$500 with 750Ti rig (where 750Ti costs $135) = baseline performance = 100%

$510 with R9 270 rig (where R9 270 costs $145) => 30+% more performance gives us a baseline of 124%

$530 with R9 270X rig (where R9 270X costs $165) => 40% more performance gives us a baseline of 140%
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The 270 is actually even faster than you give it credit for and it absolutely demolishes the 750ti.
 
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