Is R9 270x still worth buying?

[Arcus Tenshi]

Basically, I'm looking to upgrade pretty soon with cyber monday or black friday coming up with a 270x but I'm taking extra caution here now because games like Star Citizen, BLESS, Black Desert Online, Witcher 3, GTA V are coming out and I'll be thoroughly devastated if I buy the 270x and find that it can't run medium on any of those games ^

So opinions? I can somehow wait till next year for a possible 970 but I just want opinion, so long as 270x can handle Witcher 3 on High or at the very least medium, then i'm fine with it. (PSU & CPU are already covered alongsides RAM)

 

[Aviv]

If you can get 4GB version in a good price point go for it.

Until the GTX 960 will be out there it will be among one of the best bang for the buck GPU out there.

 

[Alec Mowat]

I'd almost recommend waiting to see if AMD comes out with a new card soon. They just announced new processors. I imagine they'll make something more competitive against the 9XX series soon.

 

[mniasfreemag]

It all depends on your CPU and the amount of money you want to invest on your GPU. If you have any of the newer AMD or Intel CPUs and willing to invest $200 US, you can get the R280 GPU, which is a real bargain. I have posetd a link for one of them (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202099).

 

[photonboy]

It all depends on your CPU and the amount of money you want to invest on your GPU. If you have any of the newer AMD or Intel CPUs and willing to invest $200 US, you can get the R280 GPU, which is a real bargain. I have posetd a link for one of them (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202099).

Pretty good deal, and note it comes with THREE FREE GAMES! Redeem ASAP.

Hard to beat that deal. Three chose from the "Gold" tier. You could get the following:
1) Sniper Elite III
2) Tomb Raider
3) Star Citizen

The R9-270X doesn't perform as well and comes with at least one game less. It's cheaper but the value of this card is pretty great.

May be a card you like better so can use pcpartpicker as well as guide but make sure:
a) customer feedback is good (quality of card indicator), and
b) games are available at store link

 

[Aviv]

I'd almost recommend waiting to see if AMD comes out with a new card soon. They just announced new processors. I imagine they'll make something more competitive against the 9XX series soon.

Can you tell me more about new AMD processors?

 

[photonboy]

I'd almost recommend waiting to see if AMD comes out with a new card soon. They just announced new processors. I imagine they'll make something more competitive against the 9XX series soon.

Can you tell me more about new AMD processors?

I can't find any announcements. All indicators are Q1 2015 and probably going to be only $300+ products anyway. So not really an ideal time to wait for budget gamers especially with the game deals at the moment.

 

[Alec Mowat]

I'd almost recommend waiting to see if AMD comes out with a new card soon. They just announced new processors. I imagine they'll make something more competitive against the 9XX series soon.

Can you tell me more about new AMD processors?

The new CPU's are just APU's
But see the first line
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-carrizo-and-carrizo-l,28104.html

Today, at its "Future of Compute" event, AMD announced its first high-performance SoC, called Carizzo, which is based on the new Excavator CPU micro-architecture and a next-generation Radeon GPU architecture. (AMD isn't revealing too much right now about the next-gen Radeon bit.)

 

[photonboy]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127761

That MSI R9-270X is $140 (after rebate..sigh). The ASUS version is $150:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121802

The Gigabyte model is $165:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125476

The best R9-270X is the Sapphire TOXIC but it's $200. Customer feedback indicates it's probably got less issues but that's still a big price difference.

*Looked carefully at the customer feedback and the quality (issues, DOA) especially the 1/5 and 2/5 comments. from #1 down is in this order:
#1 Sapphire Toxic
#2 Asus
#3 Gigabyte
#4 MSI

 

[Scott Bolden]

I have 2 R9 270x Sapphire Dual X 4GB cards (crossfired) Not dissapointed yet!
AMD FX-8320 @ 4.5Ghz
Gigabyte 990fx-UD3 Rev.4
Corsaire Air 540
Noctual D15
(7) 140mm fans (1 is in the back of the case cooling the VRM's and CPU, and I cut a sweet hole in the side glass blowing directly on the GPU's).
Temps never above 45C

 

[dannyh17]

I have 2 R9 270x Sapphire Dual X 4GB cards (crossfired) Not dissapointed yet!
AMD FX-8320 @ 4.5Ghz
Gigabyte 990fx-UD3 Rev.4
Corsaire Air 540
Noctual D15
(7) 140mm fans (1 is in the back of the case cooling the VRM's and CPU, and I cut a sweet hole in the side glass blowing directly on the GPU's).
Temps never above 45C

I was thinking about doing that as well. What power supply do you have to power them?