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Graphics card advice

pdhenin

pdhenin

pdhenin

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Hi everyone,

I've recently built my self a new machine and decided to leave replacing the graphics card till last. I'm after a good nvidia direct x11 card best I can get for my money really.

my current card is a Geforce 9800GT 512mb, that the IT bod in work is convinced I can SLI with my new card and back off the physic processing to it

My machine specs are

i5 2500k
Asus P8P67 pro Mobo
Corsair Memory Vengeance Blue 8GB DDR3 1866 Mhz CAS 9 XMP Dual Channel Desktop

I'm thinking of a card around £150 and if anyone has any suggestions it will be greatly appreciated.


Thanks.
 
The EVGA GeForce GTX 560Ti DS looks very tempting.

Bit of a dilemma really as I was hoping for a card to max out battlefield 3 but if the new cards are not that far off it's food for thought.
 
Might be better waiting. longer time to save up, or if you need it now a 560, 570 would be fine cards for your set up
 
pdhenin said:
The EVGA GeForce GTX 560Ti DS looks very tempting.

Bit of a dilemma really as I was hoping for a card to max out battlefield 3 but if the new cards are not that far off it's food for thought.
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certainly won't max BF3 out. Probably better to wait, as subzero said
 
Had the same dilemma a few weeks back but after trawling through reviews night after night. my conclusion if you can stretch your budget go for a 560Ti, all the reviews stated the 560 wasnt worth it considering the GTX460 are cheaper and offer the same level of performance in some cases better than the 560. in the end i settled for the msi gtx460 hawk oc i was lucky as OCuk had it on a daily deal at £110

hope that helps.
 
Your 9800 GT will not SLI with a newer card unless it is the same model of GPU e.g another 9800 GT.

The IT bod is right in saying you can use it for physics, but the games that use it are laughably small, Batman and Mafia 2 come to mind, so the power drain and space used are not worth the hassle in my opinion.

Cheers

Von
 
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