An upgrade question, which one?

[hudson]

Hi all,

Long time sinc ei've been in here asking questions.

I'm considering purchasing a new GFX card (right place i guess ) anyway, i've found 2 that fall into budget etc etc and wanted opinions.

I'm stuck between the:

ATI HD 6870​

NVIDIA GTX 560ti​

My question being, which one. Theyr eboth a worthy upgrade but the machine they will be in runs the following.

Mainboard : Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
Chipset : AMD 790X
Processor : AMD Phenom II X3 720 @ 3200MHz
Physical Memory : 4096MB (2 x 2048 DDR3-SDRAM )
Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Comments opinions?

Thanks

H

 

[hudson]

i'm happy to spend up to 200 but ideally would like it below that. (the NVIDIA card is sort of top budget).

Current PSU is an OCZ 500watt.

Games, in no order,SW TOR, BF3, Skyrim, WoW, COD,

Second hand.... i'd prefer a warranty but would consider it.

Thanks

H

 

[hudson]

if i plum for the 6950 wont my CPU bottle neck the performance?

 

[hudson]

The 720 is already running at 3.2, i do have an aftermarket cooler.

 

[hudson]

I got to 3.6 and then lost stability so that'll have to do.

Just out of curiosity whats the nvidia equivelant to a 6950?

Thanks

H