Help With a tough decision

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Hi please tell me which set to buy? Which is more futureproof?

1. i7 4790k
msi z97 gaming 5 or asus z97 a
Corsair h60 hydro cooler
Sapphire R9 270X Toxic or Crossfire.

2. Xeon e3 1230 v3
Asus h97 pro gamer
Sapphire R9 390 Nitro 8GB

Thanks
 


Yeah, It costs an indentical price to 970.

 
How fast is the 270X in CF? Does it even reach the 290X? The 390X is supposedly around the speed of the 980TI. So unless the 270X CF is a lot faster then the 290X I'm guessing you are better off with the 390.

8GB? I thought the 390s used HBM and will be capped at 4GB?
 
Nothing is "future proof." I wish I could find the thread; one of my fellow moderators pointed out that the highest-end card from five years ago (gave model) can't play most current games. You can build a machine that won't need to be replaced quite so soon, but it will eventually need to be replaced unless, like me, you gave up gaming and only use it for browsing, office apps, and software development.

That said, the more money you pour into your graphics card the longer it will be able to keep up with the "current" games of the time. But you could buy one step down, save a third of the money, and put that 1/3 away against having to do a new build four years from now instead of three. In the long run, that's less expensive.

So it's your choice: Given that any rig will become obsolete in at most seven years, how much are you willing to spend now to push that date out six months or a year? I personally choose never to pay the premium for the latest and greatest, given that in less than a year it will be merely good.
 


Should be pretty close, but I would just bought a single 290x. CF is awesome when it is working properly. You have no problems on older games, it is just the day one buys that can give you some headache.

As for memory, a 4GB is fine for anything below 2160p. At 2160p, 8GB is a minimum... and dual GPU also.

The 300 series is using GDDR5, however the new lineup, the Fury, is a whole new GPU with HBM.

 


Yes and no. At 1080p, a 150$ GPU can max anything you throw at it. It will stay this way for a long time and the console are holding back the industry. My Phenom 720 BE built with dual 6850 was still playing everything at 1080p when I sold it.

Also, CPUs are not gaming bottlenecks anymore. The needs switched to the GPU. A system caneasily last a good 5 years nowaday if you choose your parts wisely.
 
So the Fury is not the same as the 390/x? I know AMD was going to rebrand some of the current line up into the 3xx lineup, does this mean the 290/X are going to carry over to the 390/X with the 390fruy or whatever they call it being the only new high end chip?