Looking For a New Video Card

[aakopa]

GTX 960 isn't that good deal. Get 280x as it has more frame buffer, has better performance and costs around the same.

He says a graphic card that is over 2 years old for the same price as one from this year is delivering the same power. Seems legit, anyways. The AMD card series 200 is - louder, - old, - AMD graphics card.. ( some driver do not get updated anymore, I guess it was for Win8 or so), - consumes -waay- more power for 10-15 % less efficience as their Nvidia counterpart...
If you can get a Nvidia GPU, always take it. AMD is only 2nd choice about GPU's. However, if we would be talkin' about CPUs, then I would swear on AMD CPUs instead of Intel. Just because of their great prices for great efficiency.

My choice would be the ASUS GTX970 Black. It's the gaming version of the GTX970 that was released this year, bought 2 of them to SLI those. You have to know that, SLI has made waay more progress then Crossfire and micro-framedrops are no problem anymore so Nvidia all the way... You could also buy a GTX960 now and SLI a 2nd one later on whenever you need the extra ressources... (Star Citizen, Ultra HD (4k) or VR... on and on...)

Buying an AMD R9 200 series at the moment is useless, they will release their 300 series soon, if you should really want to buy an AMD 200 series card wait some time until the 300 series release, so the price of the 200 series drops again, mkay?
Why would someone pay 200 bucks for a 2 year old graphics card that is 10-15 % more bad, consuming 25 % more power and making 30 % more noise? Please, tell me. Anyways...

The PSU should be enough if it isn't a crap-aka-no-name brand. Though those could be good, just keep an eye on the certificates of your PSU. Here in europe it's regulated quite good, you can buy from a noname brand without having to worry, aslong all certificates are what you desire/expect from your PSU.

The noise difference between 7970/280x with custom cooler isn't that big. Against 970 that card isn't as good, but against 960 it has better performance. Also, You can't really play 4k with 2x 960 because they have 2GB framebuffer, and SLI doesn't double that. And SLI scaling isn't any better compared to crossfire, it's all about the game support.

I have never had a issue with AMD drivers so I don't see why you hate them.

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