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I'm leaning towards a gigabyte or strix 970 so far. With overclock should blow 280x out of the water. Thoughts?

Directx I get about 65-75ish fps on 48 man servers

So I'm looking into getting either a 2nd r9 280x or upgrade to a single gtx 970. I currently use mantle for battlefield 4 and average80-100 fps using 1080p 135% res. Scale. Everything ultra. These settings nearly max my 3gb GPU ram. I am confused as if I will actually see a notable performance...

@Thanatagnomonic Thanks! This helped me get a great basic understanding of how to do this. Would still love some more feedback though!

1000 is the budget.

First off here is my set up: M5A99FX R2.0 FX-8320 @4.4 (Looking to go to 4.8) Stock asus R9 280x (looking to crossfire) 8gb @1600 ripjaws 1000w coolermaster gold psu I'm going to start with just the cpu in the loop then move to add the gpu and possibly sb and nb ( just for looks). Don't you...

Thanks for the feedback. I'm pretty sure I hit my thermal limit with current set up. It's very stabile as well, I prim95'd it for half hour with no failed cores. I'll probably just leave it for now :)

So I recently learned how to manually oc my cpu. I have an fx 8320 which I currently have oc'd just shy of 4.6ghz. I realize this is a pretty decent speed but should I push for more? I fear I may have hit my thermal wall also.

So I want to update the bios on my m5a99fx pro r2.0 but I'm unsure of the procedure to do so. The main question i'm getting at is do I have to reformat my hdd during a mobo bios update? Or can I simply update the bios via usb and everything will be left the same as before the update?

So I'm looking on Asus cpu-z trying to see what my ram speeds are at and I'm seeing 722.6 but my ram is supposed to be 1600. Is this correct?

well based on the reviews on the top on newegg, that one is the clear winner. ill probably go with them. Thanks for the input!

But... the pretty asus load led logo, and the overclocking capability?

So im going to crossfire one of these cards. Im unsure if the matrix warrents the extra money. What do you guys think? I predominantly play bf4.

So im currently looking for a good psu for the build im currently working on and im unsure of a good wattage/rating/brand. This is the psu I'm consodering because the deal: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=17-171-056 The set up I will have when im finished will be this: asus...