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The R9 280 is fairly cheap right now in the UK. Should I get that instead?

I need a GPU to pair with a G3258. The CPU will surely bottleneck the GTX 970 (but I have to admit the Maxwell architecture is great!). The R9 290X performs great too, but it will be bottlenecked by the Pentium and the R9 290 is quite power-hungry (and so not as efficient as Maxwell GPUs). If I...

It's the cleanest, neatest and a very popular case (probably). It has support for liquid cooling, multiple fans, it's pretty much silent, long graphics cards, big heatsinks, lots of hard drives. It's well engineered and the quality is excellent. What more do you want?? :)

The GTX 770 seems to outperform the R9 280X in most cases and has much better drivers too. But it's slightly older and cheaper when buying used (in the UK).

My specs: CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 @4.4GHz CPU Cooler: Thermalright True Spirit 90M RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB 1600MHz Motherboard: MSI B85M-P32 GPU: MSI R9 280X TwinFrozr 3GB SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 120GB HDD: 2x Western Digital Caviar Blue 750GB PSU: Antec Neo Eco 620C Case: Corsair Carbide...