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I just bought a HX 750W and a 960T Phenom II from Amazon for $260

Now I ordered a gtx 570 and by accident put in my card information wrong lol and here I am just asking myself what to do... well here I am and I need some guidance from the TPU masters

I ordered a GTX 570 DCII from asus

but I was wanting to know if there was a smarter buy out there. That card is $300

I will ONLY play BC2 BF3 and COD4 promod

My monitor size until july / august will be : 1368x768 (19 inches) but i will upgrade

so what should i get? I would really like some advice please.

Thanks a lot.

P.s. SLI/CF is a no show as i am using micro-atx now and when i do my next upgrade to AM3+ i will have a 16x, 4x with dual video cards so just a single card solution please. Thanks again
 
7850/7870 way better power consumption and oc or even 7950 after it will drop in price or wait for 670 ti .
 
I suggest getting something along the lines like the AMD 79xx series 3GB vram which would be perfect if you have a multiple screen setup in the future. The 570 is great, but I think the 1.5GB vram will become a bottleneck in the future.
 
One of my best friends has eyefinity + 6970's and I feel like I'm going to puke after playing a game of BF3 so no multiple monitor for me. And I need to buy within the next couple of days to make sure my other components i ordered are in good shape.

and I saw that card OneMoar was actually gonna buy but someone told me not to and to just get a 570. Is there any major change? I just wanted to buy the best card but not at the most insane price.
 
joeyck said:
One of my best friends has eyefinity + 6970's and I feel like I'm going to puke after playing a game of BF3 so no multiple monitor for me. And I need to buy within the next couple of days to make sure my other components i ordered are in good shape.

and I saw that card OneMoar was actually gonna buy but someone told me not to and to just get a 570. Is there any major change? I just wanted to buy the best card but not at the most insane price.
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TBH I was in the same situation like you and I have crossfired both the 6950 and the 6970 using a 1080p screen which got about 120 fps for the 6950 and the 6970 getting about a 150-160 fps. It is great, but it consumes alot of power. The 6970 I tested were quite hot and the 6950 were relatively cool. The 7950 I just got performs quite decent and I am avgeraging about 60 fps with little to no noise at all. Quite good and it consumes less power than the 6970 and the 6950.
 
well i got a couple days to decide.. im currently looking @ used 580's...
 
joeyck said:
well i got a couple days to decide.. im currently looking @ used 580's...
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Used 7950s have about a 20 - 30 dollars difference depending on the way you negotiate with the sellers. Both are good cards, but if I were you I would get new generation cards. They might have some problems with drivers in the beginning but after that early period, their true potential will shine in the future.
 
Whats your current GPU???
If you already have a decent card that could run all those mentioned games, don't buy yet, save up for new gen cards
 
Hd 7870.... that is all
 
Get a used 580 or a 7870
 
A used HD7870 or GTX 580 would be excellent. I dunno if HD7870 would offer much advantage over the GTX 580 for future-proofing, in the way of VRAM. Ones got more VRAM, the latter has greater memory bandwidth. Not sure about these high-end cards, but if the GPU can't effectively access the extra VRAM (ie low memory bandwidth), it doesn't offer a huge difference in performance. Maybe try and find a new GTX 560 448SP card, like many have suggested already - with an OC, should reach territory somewhere between GTX 570 and GTX 580. Pratically the same core config as the older GTX 470 (just much faster).
 
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