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GTX 580 worth the cost?

Firesilver

Firesilver

Firesilver

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It's looking increasingly likely that I'll be building a PC early next month.

I thought I'd settled on the 580, however, reading various posts on this forum suggests that there may be very little point of spending so much on this card?

The plan is to max out BF3 etc on full settings at 1920x1080 and too build a PC that will do so until at least the end of next year (trainee engineer in the merchant navy, will be at sea from October until Febuary-ish next year)

Would a 570 suffice until then?

Thanks in advance :)
 
My doubts over the 570 are mainly due to future games, personally i just don't think it would be very future proof.

There's always SLi in the future but then again 580's SLi'd would last even longer.

Decisions decisions....

Could be worth waiting for the next gen cards? I've always got my PS3 to use until then.
 
Thanks for the advice everyone, being that I've got my PS3 for now, i think I'll wait till January and see what the new gen of GPU's bring to the table.

Seems silly to be spending £300 upwards if new cards are just around the corner, I'd assumed they were coming Q2-ish next year!

Although if I find a good deal then I'll be all over the 580 :D
 
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