Probably Upgrading Graphics Card Soon

So I recently got a job and, since I’ll have the money, would like to upgrade my card. I currently have an HD5870, which runs games fine mind you.

I was thinking of either a GTX 670 or a GTX 680. I’m kind of leaning towards the 670 as it costs quite a bit less at a very minimal performance drop, at least from the benchmarks I’ve seen. Going with Nvidia this time because their drivers are apparently miles ahead of AMD and for Physx. This was the card I was looking at, factory overclocked. Just wanted to put this up to get opinions.

Edit: I have an 800 watt Corsair power supply as well. I’m thinking that should be enough as the card recommends 500 watts.

gievs me your 5870 fur free pls :3

gimme ur 5870 ill give u a 6850 :stuck_out_tongue:

also I recommend 2 gtx 690 in SLi since you’re upgrading so soon

oh, lol.

This is the only on topic thing in this thread and it’s sarcastic :stuck_out_tongue: . Can you even put two of those in SLI since they’re double cards already?

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gtx670. I’d be all over that bitch if it didn’t cost $500 over here. /firstworldproblems

So should I get the overclocked version or the standard version. From what I’ve seen, the normal version operates almost always at around the same level as the overclocked version because of some power saving thing that Nvidia has put into their GPUs. In the benchmarks I’ve seen the two are usually only separated by 1 or 2 frames per second. Here:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/5818/nvidia-geforce-gtx-670-review-feat-evga/5



^This one’s more but it’s still really close.

What cpu do you have?

Please, for the love of god, check craigslist first, if that is an option. I recently got my GTX570 for $100 from some hard-up, down-on-his-luck bloke on CR… always worth a shot…

No, a 570 is not 670 or 680, but at hundreds less, it is plenty enough card to run anything current on max. :stuck_out_tongue:

i5 760 @ 3.5GHz

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