silo_m8 wroteDie_Kapitan wroteYour CPU is still good, if you have a decent PSU, as in 550-600W from a reputable brand, go with an R9 390, if your PSU is not from a reputable brand, something along the lines of a ThermalTake Smart series, get a new PSU and an R9 280X or a 380, both offer better performance than the GTX 960 while staying at roughly the same pricepoint.
good luck finding any AMD 300 series gpu. also the smart series are not reliable at high loads(i own a 730W). and the 200 series are overpriced here because they didnt sell well and they are still from old stock at old prices.
however this all changes if you live in the USA, an MSI twin frozer gtx 960 4G is actually a very good card and beats any amd gpu in that price bracket, the only win for amd is the 390x as it dethroned the gtx970 as the best bang for card.
Dude, I said that the Smart SE series is not good. It's not from a reputable brand nor is it based on a good platform, it's based on an old shit tier CWT platform.
The R9 380 can beat any GTX 960 on the market, no single person on the LTT forums recommends the GTX 960 over the R9 380, the GTX 960 also suffers from its 128-bit bus, so the 4 gigs won't be fully utilized, meanwhile the 380 has a 256-bit bus. Please stop using your imagination and your fanboyism as a reference and start using actual benchmarks.
It's the R9 390 that dethroned the GTX 970 not the R9 390X. Also, AMD actually wins in every pricepoint bare the $600+ and sub-120$ pricepoints, the R7 370 is beats than the GTX 750 Ti, the R9 380 is better than the GTX 960, the R9 390 is better than the GTX 970, the R9 390X goes neck-to-neck with the GTX 980, losing in more games than it wins but it's also 50$ cheaper while the R9 Fury is just 50$ more expensive than the 980 and obliterates it.