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JEMC said:

There's no rush to upgrade. I currently have an HD 5850 that's weaker than your card, but given that I don't buy new games at launch, it still serves me well.

And if you have doubts about if you can or can't run a game, there's always "can you run it"?

About overclocking, you can indeed damage your components if you go too far when you overclock but, if you're careful, you should be safe. A lot of cards come with a factory overclock, and they are under warranty, but that doesn't mean that you can't push the OC a bit more. After all, most of those cards have small overclocks just to allow the vendors to market them as "overclocked" or "faster than reference", even if the difference is small.

Oh, and one little advice, if this June will be your first Steam Sale... don't panick! You don't have to buy everything that goes on sale, even if it's cheap .

Haha. Nah, it's not, I already have about 200 Steam games XD. But it's my introduction to the new gen, so I really have to be careful with the sales and no rush them :P. I've seen some pretty good deals in the past in Steam, but I couldn't buy the games because I didn't have a proper computer.

About OC, I'm not sure if I'll go to far with the overclocking just in case, unless it's necessary to run the game properly. And always with care. I think there're some programs who monitor the temperature and exit the game if you're pushing it a bit too far, so maybe that's what I'll do. It'd be a shame to burn the GPU in its first year XD.