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[Pemalite]

HollyGamer said:

Pemalite said:
You have summed it up perfectly disolitude.

This silly Intel vs AMD thing needs to stop, instead buy the best performance for your dollar.

And don't get a Geforce 750Ti.
You will be wasting money for what is essentially a side-grade. (20-40% performance difference, less if you overclock that 6850.)
If you intend to upgrade the GPU, upgrade it to something actually worthwhile.

Conversely, if you were to stick with an AMD GPU, you will be able to take advantage of Mantle-enabled games, which (Like Beyond Earth) can drastically change the experience.
And even though AMD's high-end GPU's almost need a Nuclear Reactor and creates heat-waves to function, they're cheap, powerful, again, what you SHOULD be focused on when doing a budget build.

Well like what i said, it's useless to have powerfull GPU if there is'nt any good games to use for "only few games that utilizing mentel for now ", from driver stability, game which suporting it, heat, and power consumption again AMD lack for this.

I am saying this based on my opinion (well off course i am not alone for this one), but in the end money is not just the preference we have to know what type of consumere OP is, did he like to overclock the CPU, did he like to have bigger casing, what type of games and company he like to playing thou (some company and games better on Ati and some are better on GForce.

Drivers for AMD are fine.

Are you fogetting that nVidia was responsible for almost 30% of Blue-screens of death in Windows Vista?
http://gizmodo.com/373076/nvidia-responsible-for-nearly-30-of-vista-crashes-in-2007

nVidia sometimes has driver releases which are buggy which ranges from system crashes to graphics corruption to performance irragularities and sometimes it has fantastic drivers where everything is rock-solid smooth and brings with it substantual features and performance benefits.

AMD is the exact same, if AMD truly did have debilitating drivers in comparison to nVidia, Then I would be one of the first to know, I run triple monitors in eyefinity and four Radeon R9 290's in Crossfire, which isn't a "Simple" set-up with more aspects that could potentially go wrong.

As for Mantle... Every Frostbite powered game will support it going forward.
That's a pretty big chunk of EA's entire game library... From Plant's VS Zombies to Battlefield 4, Battlefield: Hardline, Dragon Age: 3, Mass Effect 4? You name it.
Then we have Civilization: Beyond Earth, Star Citizen, Thief, StarWars: Battlefront, Need for Speed, Sniper Elite 3.

CryEngine, Unreal, Frostbite 3 support Mantle.

Again, it all depends on what games he ultimatly decides he wishes to play as nVidia has it's own lock-in's like PhysX and G-Sync which may be better for him depending on the titles he is drawn towards.

The Op really hasn't provided enough details about budgets etc' to really make an informed decision on his upgrade path either way.