brain_stew
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Go with the 970, unless you can find a bargain 290 or 290x.
Even at $250 the R9 290x looks like a crappy deal to me. Why put up with the most power hungry card on the market and AMD' jankiness when you can get the same performance with half the power draw and far better drivers/features for just $330? It was always a compromise buying a 290/290x, no one has to make that compromise anymore.
The 290 needs to drop to $200 and the 290x to $250 to make them interesting again. As it stands they may as well not exist.