I'm buying a GPU upgrade. Recommendations? [Done! Giveaway inside.]

Will you change the cpu soon ?

nvidia GTX970 G1 WindForce

which PSU?

I don't think you can get a GTX970 for that price, so maybe a GTX960. Unless you up your budget a little bit

With your budget a GTX 970 is a good choice but I'm not sure if your CPU is gonna bottleneck
EDIT: Sorry but seems like I made a mistake about the prices so as others said a GTX 960 is a better choice

Which Brand PSU and how old is it? It's important to know.

Second, GPU progression was stalled sinds 2012/2013, especially AMD just released rebranded products, in a few months however they {(nvidia and amd) are switching from 28 nm production to 14 nm, so if your not gonna play a game right away with ur new gpu.. waiting would be wise, in this case.

Or buy a cheap second hand gpu which u can switch over at the end of the year, or next year.

Oh and btw - which resolution will you and are you gaming?

GTX 960 or R9 380x

Since you only want nVidia, there's really only one good option - the GTX 960. :P

I'm a bit dated at this point, so there's a very good chance that i'm way off point. but I purchased my GTX 760 for around that price range, on blackfriday sale, a little over a year ago after a lot of research. I'm guessing it's around that price point all the time now because the 960 was released pretty sure that's closer to $300 usd than $200, but that's just a hunch

EDIT: I'd go with 960 having done a quick look now. they're about the same price at this point.

well after checking the price at your region your budget might fit a 960 2gb , but try to get the 4gb cause games these day love VRAM a lot if you know what i mean

At this resolution (1680x1050) you can really just go with 960 2GB and keep some money. R9 380X is slighty better, but if you don't want to go with red army then you should pick 960 (2 or 4 GB) or wait for 960Ti (should be released soon)

some great items at new egg in your price range
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007709%204814%204018
i would recommend the EVGA GeForce GTX 960 04G-P4-3969-KR 4GB FTW GAMING w/ACX 2.0+, Whisper Silent Cooling w/ Free Installed Backplate Graphics Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487164 it has a core clock of 1304MHz

I just got gigabyte gtx 960 OC 4gig for 200 USD
Definitely get the 4 gig version as games like Wolfenstien and COD ghost use wll over 2gig and other games are sure to follow
Mine is clocked at 1219 and boost to 1320

Either NVidia GTX 960 (the 4GB edition, don't even think about any other), or AMD R9 380X. The latter will have more edge in DirectX 12 performance than the NVidia 900 series, so it has at least an additional year (or even more) longevity. But in short to mid terms, they are pretty much close with the R9 being a little more efficient in price/performance ratio and being somewhat cheaper.

Still, your CPU won't be able to supply either of them, so no matter what you buy, you will be bottlenecked. So, the choice is more like ghow long you want this to be your primary card? If 2-3 years, the NVidia one is probably better for you. If 3-5 years, then go for AMD or wait a year until NVidia releases actual DX12 chips.

Id say wait until pascal comes out.

I see people recommending the 4GB version of the gtx 960, but unless you can get it for roughly the same price, you should just get the 2GB one. There's not really any difference in performance. 4GB won't help you at all on a 128 bit bus. It's been pretty heavily benchmarked and results show practically no difference between the two cards in 99% of the cases. Also 4GB won't help you "future-proof" on a mid range card with a 128 bit bus.

As for my personal advice, if you can wait, just wait for the new generation of cards, coming somewhere around summer 2016. If you can't, then make a choice between something that is less power hungry / more efficent (gtx 960) or more raw power (380 / 380x).

Alright, so after reading all of your recommendations and searching around Newegg a bit, I figured that I should probably go with the XFX Radeon R9 380X 4GB 256-Bit DDR5 DD BLACK EDITION OC Video Card. First reason is that it has two DVI connectors (which is a good thing since I have two monitors). Second, XFX seem to have very good support and warranty (apparently DD GPUs have lifetime warranty).

Any thoughts?

AMD R9 390 better than GTX970 cuz of DX12 support

no matter what brand you get, get at least 3 gb and + even for 1080p, skyrim modded and crysis 2 ultra destroy that 2 gb pretty fast

(well crysis 2 i reached 2 160 mbs still higher than 2048 mbs)

Wait for the summer like i m doing because of the new cards that going to be release

I'm still running a computer that is more than six years old. I upgraded it with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750. So far, I have not found anything I can't run. I can even run almost everything maxed.

"I'd rather go with Nvidia because of the recent graphics and drivers issue with AMD" Really? My friends went AMD because of the recent graphics drivers issues with Nvidia.

What an interesting world of incompatible perspectives.

r9 380/380x/gtx 960