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Got 900 canadian should I buy a new monitor or upgrade my system.

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Amd r9 390x 8350 970 mobo 16gb ram 850 psu..

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what monitor?

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I just use an rca tv

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size? resolution? refresh rate? latency?

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Idk what it is I play at 720p most of the time and it'd a 60 refresh rate and my resolutions 1370x720 I think or something like tht

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if i were you i'd upgrade the monitor now and the cpu and motherboard down the road when zen comes out. you got a nice gpu that has a lot of life left and the psu should be fine for a long time. what types of games do you play?

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I play rust overwatch. And alot of other games. I was thinking about getting zen when it came out just don't know how much it would be also. I wanna crossfire 2 390s so I'd love to upgrade my psu to a 1k but I can do that later. But the monitor I was looking at is the 144mhz 1440p monitor from benq

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I second @fredrich_nietze, get a monitor first.

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freesynch is a good idea if since you already have a amd gpu.

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I don't have an ebay

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Im canadian aswell I got 870 in my PayPal right now so I'm wanting to buy

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newegg ships to canada right?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAB714894154&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-_-Monitors+-+LCD+Flat+Panel-_-9SIAB714894154&gclid=CLfckvPY488CFQyOaQodxhYKgg&gclsrc=aw.ds

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http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7RD2YT1839&cm_re=Free_sync-_-24-014-451-_-Product

Isn't that better?

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the benQ is tn and 1ms and twice the price. the pixio is 4ms ips and half the price. i'd go with pixio and save the rest for zen.

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Don't forget the pixie is usd + shipping brokerage and shit for cross boarders

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Black Friday sales are usually an awesome time to get monitors.
Also check out the Best Buy site, I had great luck at in the refurb/open box section.

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Would u think zen would make my 390x run better? Is the 8350 holding my system back? Aswell as owyld it be worth it trading my 390x for a 480+ cash and cross fire 2 480s over 390s

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with a better cpu you'll get better framerates. i dislike the term bottle necking but thats a tangent i will stay away form today.


and
http://techfrag.com/2016/05/24/amd-zen-summit-ridge-twice-fast-fx-8350-par-intel-i7-5960x-extreme/
supposedly they took a intel chip and zen chip and set them both to 3ghz? i think it was 3 and then had them both do the same thing and the amd chip won barely. same # of cores and threads. so better then the 8350? yes. better then the current gen and next gen of intel? maybe. intels 6 series strength is in the ability to overclock to high frequencies as nearly every k chip can hit 4.5 or higher. the performance per watt is there but we dont know the heat or how scalable it is, yet.

and the 390x has a very small lead of the 480
http://hwbench.com/vgas/radeon-rx-480-vs-radeon-r9-390x
i dont know enough about crossfire and canadian prices to be able to advise on this.

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I heard the 4690k is a great pare with the 390x