In a pickle selecting a GPU

[MrBlueUk]

So I have hit a bit of a bump in the road, I had set my eyes on the GTX 560ti but after hearing that Nvidia are bringing out new cards that may be around the same price range it has put me in a slight pickle. Now what I am thinking is buying a cheaper card to use to play games until the new cards are released If I did this what cards would do a good job until then?

Thanks for any help I get.

 

[MrBlueUk]

I have a hd 5450 which cant manage games thats why I need a new card now

 

[MrBlueUk]

use a quad core amd 965 3.4 ghz, 4 gb ram and 650w ocz psu

 

[MrBlueUk]

monitor only supports 1280 x 1024 but new monitor will be purchased in the near future

 

[MrBlueUk]

Get one of the HD7750/7770 cards that come out next week - should cost between £100 and £130 or so - they will be massively faster than what you have and more than enough for your monitor - perhaps 6-7 times faster than your 5400.

The slower/cheaper 7600's will I believe just be re-badged 66/67xx series cards. The faster/dearer 7800 series will be a month or so away.

Next week is when I am looking to purchase my gpu

 

[MrBlueUk]

I think for your curent system 560ti would be ok. C2Q is no longer "all that" any more, so 560ti/6950 or maybe 570/6970 would be pretty much the sweet spot- no bottlenecks and thus you wont be paying for unused performance potential.

If you can stretch - I'd go for AMD as they have more VRAM which will come in handy once you upgrade your monitor.

Everyone seems to always say get a gtx 560 ti