Nagasama
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ok so now that I have my 4670k, g45, h90 and ram in my possession...
scrolling through newegg I see that they have the MSI gtx770 2gb on sale (matches my mobo plus its "gaming" like my mobo so it gets a small increase in performance). hrm.
its priced at 319. if I use my preferred account before the 31st, I will save an additional 30.00.
hrm.
which would bring my price to 293.98, including (not egg saver no no no) shipping.
and it still is bundled with arkam, splinter cell and AC black flag, which newegg list as 160.00 worth of games. which would essentially mean I am paying about 130.00 for a card that will straight MASSACRE my sli gtx 460 set up.
this is right at what I really think I could get away with spending...(have 200.00 cash saved, and have yet to sell my q9450, 750sli, 6gb ocz ddr2 800, sd1283 and 2x 1gb gtx460's. which should easily leave me with enough left over to buy that Samsung ssd that I would like as well.
I have decided to hold off upgrading to the bigger Korean monitor indefinitely (love my acer 24"), because I just don't see the "need" for it ATM. so monitor will be 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 @60hz.
I do not see the prices of the r9's going down any time soon, and in any event, im still hesitant on buying a radeon anyways. I just prefer NVidia, my own experience/opinion. I also do not see the "need" for me to drop 500 bucks on a 780 (she who must be obeyed would probably choke me, plus that's more than I spent for my entire system upgrade...just don't see the logic in spending that much on GPU).
The only hesitation I have is future SLI vs the 4gb...but with a single monitor, I don't think the 256 bus can make use of 4gb anyhow. and all single card benchmarks I can find between the two show little or no performance difference at 1080p. and honestly, I don't really care to sli, even though I have been happy with my 460s. and with 3 kids, its not like I have time to sit down and game for 4 hours anyways...still playing BF3, would like to try the 3 free games, and eventually will buy BF4 when the bugs are worked out (LOL), and origin puts it up for 30 bucks again.
so, what do yall think?
can anyone talk me out of it? any reasons I SHOULDNT do it? because if its a good choice, ima go ahead and pull the trigger before midnight tomorrow.
scrolling through newegg I see that they have the MSI gtx770 2gb on sale (matches my mobo plus its "gaming" like my mobo so it gets a small increase in performance). hrm.
its priced at 319. if I use my preferred account before the 31st, I will save an additional 30.00.
hrm.
which would bring my price to 293.98, including (not egg saver no no no) shipping.
and it still is bundled with arkam, splinter cell and AC black flag, which newegg list as 160.00 worth of games. which would essentially mean I am paying about 130.00 for a card that will straight MASSACRE my sli gtx 460 set up.
this is right at what I really think I could get away with spending...(have 200.00 cash saved, and have yet to sell my q9450, 750sli, 6gb ocz ddr2 800, sd1283 and 2x 1gb gtx460's. which should easily leave me with enough left over to buy that Samsung ssd that I would like as well.
I have decided to hold off upgrading to the bigger Korean monitor indefinitely (love my acer 24"), because I just don't see the "need" for it ATM. so monitor will be 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 @60hz.
I do not see the prices of the r9's going down any time soon, and in any event, im still hesitant on buying a radeon anyways. I just prefer NVidia, my own experience/opinion. I also do not see the "need" for me to drop 500 bucks on a 780 (she who must be obeyed would probably choke me, plus that's more than I spent for my entire system upgrade...just don't see the logic in spending that much on GPU).
The only hesitation I have is future SLI vs the 4gb...but with a single monitor, I don't think the 256 bus can make use of 4gb anyhow. and all single card benchmarks I can find between the two show little or no performance difference at 1080p. and honestly, I don't really care to sli, even though I have been happy with my 460s. and with 3 kids, its not like I have time to sit down and game for 4 hours anyways...still playing BF3, would like to try the 3 free games, and eventually will buy BF4 when the bugs are worked out (LOL), and origin puts it up for 30 bucks again.
so, what do yall think?
can anyone talk me out of it? any reasons I SHOULDNT do it? because if its a good choice, ima go ahead and pull the trigger before midnight tomorrow.
