PC Gaming will always two step's ahead of console gaming. Just look at the GPU's and CPU's that are in a gaming PC. But the one great thing right now is both PS4 and XBOX One, use AMD GPU's that alone will make the next 5-10 year's of PC Gamers happy due to the fact that the two consoles will be able to play PC port's just not with as much detail at all, and much less 5+ years from now.
So for us PC Gamers, as long as you have a upper mid range to high end AMD GPU you're set.
I'm not one to upgrade my GPU every release as you don't see much of a difference like you did back in the day. I've had a XFX AMD 6950 2gb for 4 years before I upgraded to my current Gigabyte 290 OC Edition, I got last month. And it is amazing. AMD has definitely won this years GPU race. Nvidia's only resort is to upgrade upon there current architecture, meaning the 880 they are racing out to production as fast as they can is just going to be a 780 but with more core's and I'm sure they will finally use a 512bit memory bus. That will help allow the card to breath better.
But Nvidia does have it's other tactic and that brings us to the Fanboy. And does nvidia have allot, I stopped buying nvidia back when they a legibly were caught paying game makers to make there game run slower on AMD or when they a legibly paid people to review AMD products and pretty much make them look like crap while making nvidia cards seem like they were beasts. This still goes on "a legibly " I've even talked to people saying they admit to doing so in there reviews or on forum's.
Besides that, nvidia had never been a good experience for me. The cards were always over priced and the drivers wouldn't be that great.
Don't get me wrong though. If nvidia did really make a GPU that blew everything else out of the water and it was in the same price bracket of other high end gpu's I would give it a try. But the 3 nvidia cards I've used years ago, the best one being the 8800 GTS 1GB was a good card for its time. But back then new cards with allot more power came out from nvidia and ati every 6 months it seemed.
But now I feel that anyone who owns a new'er i5 CPU, clocked at 3.5ghz 8gb of decent DDR3 Ram a Tower with good air flow, a high end GPU and a good PSU, since allot of people underestimate how much power a oc'ed CPU, GPU and all of those case fans. You are going to want a good PSU to provide good clean power at full load. I would say 600watts is minimum but as long as it's a good 600 watts you're set. But even though my PC output is 596 at peak. Almost any single GPU setup will be just under 600 watts under peak power. You still want some head room. So 750w Gold rated is where you want to be. If you're going to run crossfire or sli with this years high end GPU's then a good 1200W will be fine and allow for 3 high end GPU's but I would say play it safe and pick up a 750 even if you only run a single GPU.
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