Video Card question

Hi all, long time no see :)

I had a question about some video cards I've been looking at, and would like some opinions.

First, I game at 1680x1050. 4K might be in the future, but only after a video card and PSU upgrade. I currently game using an AMD 7880, and am looking at the following upgrades:

R9 290X 8GB version

R9 295X2

My questions are:

Is the 295X2 overkill? I really want to splurge, it being the holidays and just getting a bonus check from work, but if it is excessive and, worst of all, soon to be outdated, I will go for something 1/2 to 1/3 the price. However, if it is future proof, then I would love it. Which leads me to my second question...

...what is on the radar as far as new, unreleased cards go? Is the Titan 2 going to be competetively priced relative to the 290X2, and the R390 to the R290? Basically, is it worth waiting for?

Any other input, insight, or advice welcome. Thanks!

I would consider those cards overkill for anything under 1080p, and more than enough for 1080p anyway.

Not enough good monitors atm imo to justify going to 4k atm. Going from your current resolution to something like 2560x1440 would be a big jump. I'm sure you'd like that.
But more questions come about, can your cpu even handle cards like that without a bottleneck, assuming you do go to 4k?
And you will need to upgrade that monitor obviously. :P As the cards you mentioned, would be pointless if you are still at that resolution when you do upgrade the video card and psu. :P

4K resolution = 2x 290s or 2x 970s. (if you have the option for 3 or even 4 GPUs, that would be even better)

FX 4100 will choke high-end GPUs. You will need to get something that will allow the GPU to fly.

I went from a Phenom II x4 940 @ 3.6GHz to stock i5-4670k and here are the differences in performance on two GTX 570s in SLI:

Once you upgrade your GPU, work on moving to an i5 or i7 from Intel. They just have that much more overhead for your GPU to utilize in games.

Is there a reason why you only choose to go with AMD? Maybe someone could shed some light on this.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/190581-nvidias-ace-in-the-hole-against-amd-maxwell-is-the-first-gpu-with-full-directx-12-support

I don't know if this has been cleared up but if maxwell is indeed the first GPU to fully support dx12 according to this article, then I would think about waiting until the next generation of AMD GPUs.

I m using 8350 and it serving me will .

maybe i m a fan of red team . but i dont know i never get an issue with my cpu or with my gpu!