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I never feel like virtual machine is actually running the OS, it seems to foreign to me and I hear it uses more resources. So I just made Windows 10 my main OS.
 
I might be able to for a gtx 970. I am getting 110$ + 8gb of ram, and along with that I have around 150$ of personal money. Does anybody here have multi monitor gaming experience w/ nvidia? Amd catalyst software seems to just work for me, so I'm looking at maybe a 280x/ or a 960/70. Would these be a decent upgrade from the 7770, I might be able to go crossfire or sli down the road when I upgrade my motherboard, my psu is more than sufficient.
 
PC Builder - Yes they would both be an upgrade. Even though I have 2 monitors I only game with one. And 970/60 or a 280x? It really depends on what you need....I mean If I had a 7770 I would Go for what I have now, the toxic 280x . Just make sure your case could fit it. But its really up to you
 
Yep, my top gpu slot has 15.478 inches of clearance (400mm), since I removed the top drive case as I only have an hdd and an ssd, which is plenty for at least at the moment any double (maybe triple) slot gpu. The toxic series looks really nice, would add alot of bling to my build. I kind of want to move away from asus, not because I dislike them, just want to try something new, and sapphire seems the most compelling to me, with the 2nd place being MSI. I might also swap out the led's in my case for red ones and get some red fans. That would really be a nice change to the build.
 
Alrighty then, guess benchmarks will decide for me. I might just get a 290 used like new or in very good condition from amazon ware-house deals like I did with my current one. Saved and perfroms like new with the same amazon reliabilty. See an asus dcu2 one for 270$, not bad.
 


There is no reason to buy a 280x in my opinion when the 960 will be as powerful and use 1/2 the power. I firmly believe the r series GPUs from AMD were already antiquated when they came out.

$270 for a used 290? WHy when you could get a much better card that runs cooler and uses MUCH MUCH less power for $325. (970)
 
It really annoys me how behind the game amd is in cpus. I get how their new perspective is pointed towards to low performance, budget apus with a few cpus like the x4 760k in the mix, but the fact that they keep building apon the 990fx and 970 (and 760g too I guess 😛) chipset with the am3+ cpus is really frustrating. They have had 4 "generations" of cpus on the same socket... Fx 8150 then the 8350 then the 9xxx series then the 8320e and 8370e. If AMD ever really wants to make the full appeal to gamers and performance enthusiasts, they better make a batch low heat output chips that compare with intels products. They kind of put themselves in hole to be honest, because with ddr4 being out now, if they haven't already started designing the new cpus years ago, these things are going to cost way too much to appeal to the typical amd "price to performance" motto that they and basically the enitre cpu/gpu/most of the case/ pc hardware in general has been rotating around (with the small batch of really high end stuff also mixed in there). I mean come on amd. Do you guys think that AMD is forever out of the high end competing chips they used to be?
 
The thing that really gets to me though, is that in terms of the gpu market, they are still entirely in it releasing stuff like the 295x2 for only 750$ at the moment. I mean come on AMD, do the same for cpus too!
Edit- Also, while I get that the APU and low end/ low heatput market is huge, but the people who buy this stuff will eventually want to upgrade, and the only real option they'll have (especially gamers, as productivity/ professional people won't even consider the current amd cpus in the first place), is to go for an i5 or i7 or a decent xeon like the e3 1230v3.....
 
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