In my new system I am looking at fitting the ASrock Extreme 4 gen3 board.

I want some serious power graphics wise but was thinking would I be wise to fit a current 580 or fit a decent card for now (560Ti) and wait until the PCI 3.0 cards are released to get a whopper (for want of a better word).

Or, am I being really stupid and will today's cards run at full throttle on pci 3.0

I'm a tad confused.

Todays cards will run fine on PCI 3.0, but honestly when PCI 3.0 is out I think the cards will gain a lot of performance.

I'd fit a 580, buying lower end and waiting isn't usually the way to go, in my opinion.

U won't be dissapointed with the 580 unless u are running a seriously high resolution which looking at ur specs u arnt.

On boards such as the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 the PCI-E 3.0 slots only run as PCI-E 2.0 slots with a Sandy Bridge processor.

They don't operate as PCI-E 3.0 until an Ivy Bridge processor is fitted.

Basically no Ivy Bridge no PCI-E 3.0.

Matterez said:

Todays cards will run fine on PCI 3.0, but honestly when PCI 3.0 is out I think the cards will gain a lot of performance.

I'd fit a 580, buying lower end and waiting isn't usually the way to go, in my opinion.

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In what way? Cards aren't maximizing the x16 slots on the current specification.

U can run cards at x8 atm and the drop in performance is barely noticable.

Surveyor said:

On boards such as the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 the PCI-E 3.0 slots only run as PCI-E 2.0 slots with a Sandy Bridge processor.

They don't operate as PCI-E 3.0 until an Ivy Bridge processor is fitted.

Basically no Ivy Bridge no PCI-E 3.0.

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Oh no I realise that. But I would be fitting an ivybridge as well.

Well, that depends on benchmarks.

unless you upgrade your montior to one with 2560x1440/2560x1600 res the 580 will be overkill, the 560ti should be able handle most games at 1600 x 1200 with high details.

fowler002 said:

unless you upgrade your montior to one with 2560x1440/2560x1600 res the 580 will be overkill, the 560ti should be able handle most games at 1600 x 1200 with high details.

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I'm gonna get a 3D 24" 1920X1080 monitor.

Maybe looking at those new Sammy ones that are on the OCUK video.

Someone said to me to wait for the 28nm cards. How long will I have to wait? Who knows. I just bought a 580 last week.

Waiting sucks

Krony said:

U can run cards at x8 atm and the drop in performance is barely noticable.

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Hell you can run at 4X and you wont see much difference, no current card will see any improvement with Pci-e 3.0. See this review.