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I currently have a Sapphire R9 280x which is slowly dying on me. It is starting to get incredibly hot when gaming, it has become very very loud, and performance is slowing down. With the new 1080/1070 coming out, I was going to hold off on getting a new card, buuuut now I am looking at a new monitor as well. Because I don't want a G-Sync monitor(due to their insane costs) I have been looking at some Freesync monitors such as the BenQ XL2730Z.

With no word on AMD's new line, and their current gen prices staying the same for right now, I don't know what to do. Obviously if I pick up a Freesync monitor then I won't want to buy a 1070. Is it even worth it right now to buy something like an R9 390x or a Fury? Their prices are still quite high, although I did see a XFX R9 Fury Pro on sale for $650CDN(our dollar is terrible right now) and an R9 390x for $510.


Should I suck it up and wait for AMD's new line? Should I say screw it and buy a 1070 and dish out an insane amount of money for a G-Sync monitor? Should I buy a Fury or a 390x? I'm all kinds of lost right now.
 
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depends, you dont "need" gsync if you pair you card with a proper monitor and proper settings,
yes its nice to have, but at 100+ fps its not needed, also there are "cheap" Gsync monitors out there, dont need to cost 700$ and up,
there are some starting from 250$
but yea the extra price added straight up for Gsync is horrendous and greedy, but we must endure if we want the goodies

Nop, dont bother right now, unless you can get it for a handful of pesos

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^Yup
at the very least to check/compare

depends, you dont "need" gsync if you pair you card with a proper monitor and proper settings,
yes its nice to have, but at 100+ fps its not needed, also there are "cheap" Gsync monitors out there, dont need to cost 700$ and up,
there are some starting from 250$
but yea the extra price added straight up for Gsync is horrendous and greedy, but we must endure if we want the goodies

Nop, dont bother right now, unless you can get it for a handful of pesos

 
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Really as long as you have a monitor that has the features you want. You don't need to spend more on it. Right now I am running a 7970, the equivalent of a 280x, on a monitor 1080p OC 76Hz. I am happy with it. So really don't dish out extra money for unseeded items.

As of the newer AMD cards, see if you can hold out until the 490/X comes out. Those are said to have 390x/fury performance for less dollar and slightly less power? I'm not sure about that. It is said to be only 200-300 USD. Idk for sure, but it sure seems like cheap performance. I'd suggest you wait for that. Also if your card ends up dying on you, get a cheap used GPU for 20 bucks like a 9800GT or 8400GT, some as cheap as free after MIR for display.
 
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Is there any word on a time frame for AMD's new cards? I thought I read that their new budget cards come out sometime mid 2016 but their actual performance cards won't be out until sometime in 2017.
 
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yup dem seems to be dem rumours http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-480-polaris-10-july/

i do remember reading somewhere a new rumour saying AMD might move up Vega to October/November because of "possible Nvidia threat" lol,, but again,, just rumours for now until other is proven
 
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yea you can never be sure of release dates. AMD screws around with them so much. the AMD DuoPro was so late in its release. and so on....
 
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