Yes, I was planning to upgrade to a new Nvidia card so I can do some VR and 4k gaming, but I guess I will stick with my r9 280x for now.
It's probably going to be the case for the next few months, until crypto-currency-specialized GPU's are released, that buying a pre-built PC or laptop is a better deal than building one. Which is crazy.
We'll likely see three GPU markets from now on, the simulation-focused GPU's that focus on reliability/consistency which supercomputers, engineers, and animators use (i.e Nvidia Tesla), a crypto-currency mining GPU market that will be priced in the lower thousands, and the lower-priced gaming GPU's which will be sub-$1000, even at the high end.
We just got to wait for Nvidia and Amd to release the currency-specific cards. They'd be dumb not to.
