Advice on a new graphics card

[Wizardskills]

I’m going to be updating my graphics card this week as my two 4870x2’s are just not coping too well with the latest games. I’m only getting 35fps average on BF3 (on low settings @ 1920*1200) and the latest Trackmaina struggles as well.

I have been looking round and I think the nVidia 580 3Gb is going to be the way to go (or would the ATI 6970 be worth a shout?). I don’t really want to go down the multiple card route as it can be problematic when the cards start to get old. Which make of card would be the best to get? EVGA used to be good but I don’t know what they are like now? Gigabyte have served me well on the motherboard front but are they any good for graphics cards? Also I’m guessing the 580 can only run 2 screens at once (I have 3 so I’ll probably have to get a cheap card to run my 2nd and 3rd screen)? Any advice would be appreciated

 

[tabletf5]

If your budget allows, I'd look at 2 570's (the 2.5GB versions) sli/xfire has come a long way since the HD4xxx series.

 

[Wizardskills]

Hummm, I don't really want to go down the sli/xfire route.

 

[RobSmith]

From personal experience, EVGA have always served me well - fantastic customer support and a free 3-year warranty, which means I can chuck eveything and anything at my GPU and once its dead, I just RMA that bad boy.

I haven't had any experience with other GFX card brands so my opinionis a little one-sided, but I have heard good things for Asus cards.

If you are playing on two monitors, you'll want to stick with the 3GB 580, as good as the 6970 is, it won't handle two monitors playing the latest titles like the 580.

 

[david_129]

I had a problem with an evga motherboard, but it was replaced soon enough. I don't have any actual evga hardware now, but i think the 580 is a better option, also works with 3d vision