What card?

[Captain Chaos]

Hi all

Im after your opinion on the best gpu to buy.

I did have 2 x GTX480 SOC in sli however found these very noisy and glitchy whilst running COD Black Ops (prob the game driver). I bought these to replace a standard reference ASUS gtx480 which was a lot quieter and did not exhibit any glitches whilst running the game.

So in the interests of my ears not bleeding whilst playing games and wanting the best whats your thoughts?

GTX590 or GTX580?

Perhaps some kind of 500 series SLI or even somthing crazy like an ATI card / cards?

Budget of £700

I am running (well should be arriving today if city link get their act together) 3 x Dell 2311s so surround vision is a must but they also have display ports so either brand is fine.

My rig is

Asus Ramage III extreme mobo
Corsair HX850w psu
Corsair Dominator 6 GB : 3 x 2 GB
CPU i7 950 3ghz (overclocked to 3.7ghz via the standard noob cpu level up program)
C300 SSD 128gb
Sata 2tb western digital hdd

Case is a HAFX and systeme is running on air (CPU Cooled by a Coolermaster V8)

 

[number1chef]

You can check how all the cards on the market compare to each other on passmark, i think its pretty accurate with cpus, not too sure about gpus but im sure its fair! GPU bencmarks here

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/

I just bought the radeon HD 5850 recently and cant complain, its handled everything ive thrown at it so far. That is far below your price range however, you'll prob be wanting something stronger could always go for a crossfire setup, i always think its better to get 1 proper card though than 2 running together, since cards are so big now and an extra 1 can really clog up the case and increase temperature. Unless you have a tower

Goodluck hope passmark helps you choose!

 

[Gtiracer]

You can check how all the cards on the market compare to each other on passmark, i think its pretty accurate with cpus, not too sure about gpus but im sure its fair! GPU bencmarks here

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/

I just bought the radeon HD 5850 recently and cant complain, its handled everything ive thrown at it so far. That is far below your price range however, you'll prob be wanting something stronger could always go for a crossfire setup, i always think its better to get 1 proper card though than 2 running together, since cards are so big now and an extra 1 can really clog up the case and increase temperature. Unless you have a tower

Goodluck hope passmark helps you choose!

Whilst being quite a good chart for a general comparison, I feel anandtech's bench website gives a better comparison feature where you can view each card againsat another card, for example;

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/305

 

[girafferider]

Consider getting the versions with a special cooler (MSI twinfrozr or Sapphire vaporx/toxic if you do go amd) if you care about the noise. Don't think you'll mind the small price increase with a 700 pound budget.