not sure what to buy....

[Lief]

My budget is around £200, I can stretch a little higher if it would make a difference.

What I am looking at getting currentley is:

Asus GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI Mini HDMI PCI-E which is around £180.

Would it make a huge difference to get the MSI 2gb version of this card? (approx £20-40 more).

This will be run on a 2500k 8gb ram system.

My mother board is Asus P8H61-M LE H61 Socket 1155 8 Channel HD it only says it is crossfire ready, so I assume I cannot run sli on this mobo?

Would an ati card be better for future proofing?

Thank you.

 

[Howling]

6950, imho there's no real arguement for the 560Ti over it. ^_^

 

[Lief]

any other thoughts?

 

[nitr0uk]

6950 or the 560Ti seem to be good choice

 

[arc@css]

What's your res?

 

[GTO656]

go with 560Ti

 

[Lief]

Well will be buying this monitor most likely...

ASUS VS247H LCD LED 23.6" HDMI Monitor

- Max Resolution : 1920 x 1080
- Image Contrast Ratio: 50000000:1 (dynamic)
- Response Time : 5 ms

So that will be res

 

[arc@css]

Myself, I'd either go for a 6950 with a possible view to crossfire later, or one 2gb 560ti.


Edit : In light of Surveyor's post, I would therefore go for the 2gb 560ti.

 

[Zinth]

If its crossfire ready im pretty sure its sli ready too. I'd go with the 6950 amazing card for the price !

 

[Surveyor]

My mother board is Asus P8H61-M LE H61 Socket 1155 8 Channel HD it only says it is crossfire ready, so I assume I cannot run sli on this mobo?

Myself, I'd either go for a 6950 with a possible view to crossfire later, or one 2gb 560ti.

If its crossfire ready im pretty sure its sli ready too. I'd go with the 6950 amazing card for the price !

The Asus P8H61-M LE only has one x16 PCI-E slot.

The only way it's going to run Crossfire or SLI is with a dual GPU card like the HD 6990 or GTX 590.

 

[Lief]

I'm an idiot, copy and pasted from a different build....

Mother board is:

Asus P8H67 R3 H67 Socket 1155 8 Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard

Expansion Slots
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (blue, single at x16 mode)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (black, at x4 mode, compatible with PCIe x 1 and PCIe x 4)

So can I run both sli or crossfire on this board?

Sorry for the stupidness

 

[Surveyor]

I assume you mean the P8H67 B3 Revision.

Crossfire yes, SLI no.

But it's not the best board for Crossfire.

The second x16 slot only runs at x4 speed which can cause reduced performance.

Benchmarks here which show the performance loss of running at x16/x4 (your motherboard) compared to x8/x8.

 

[arc@css]

Still, not bad performance. Better than I expected.

 

[Lief]

Yer rev 3 b3, perfomance loss isn't ideal but can live with it.

Will go for 6950 2gb then, thanks guys