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April 8, 2013 5:58:01 PM

Okay, I'm looking for a decent card for about $200. I have 550W and a p5q3 deluxe motherboard, along with an Intel core dou. I'm planning on upgrading such a CPU to a quad core. I know their will be bottleneck with such a CPU, keep in mind that I'm upgrading it soon. I would like to be able to play Battlefield 3, black ops 2, Skyrim, and the upcoming battlefield 4.
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Gerren.
P.S: I just want to know what a good card is, never mind about the bottleneck.

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a c 91 U Graphics card
April 8, 2013 6:15:09 PM

If you can stretch your budget even higher than that, for about $240, the 7870XT is about 10% faster even than the card that mclovits linked.
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April 8, 2013 6:44:58 PM

Lazymonkey86 said:
Is it better than the Nvidia 660?


Definitely.
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April 8, 2013 8:23:57 PM

I see. Well, thank you guys for the help. What does Radeon have for Physx or cuba cores? Is their any such competition here.
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Gerren.
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a c 578 U Graphics card
April 8, 2013 9:54:46 PM

PhysX and CUDA are NVIDIA only technologies.

None of the games you've listed have PhysX support.
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a c 91 U Graphics card
April 8, 2013 10:22:52 PM

Lazymonkey86 said:
I see. Well, thank you guys for the help. What does Radeon have for Physx or cuba cores? Is their any such competition here.
Thanks,
Gerren.


It doesn't have Physx, but only about 12 games use it anyways.

As for CUDA, Radeon makes use of stream processors, which use the OpenGL framework. They work just as well (radeon cards actually stomp kepler into the ground when it comes to compute performance), but some programs support one, some support the other.
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April 9, 2013 4:29:23 PM

Thank you all for helping me with my decision. I think I'm probably going too get the 7870... Thanks.
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April 9, 2013 4:56:34 PM

Lazymonkey86 said:
Thank you all for helping me with my decision. I think I'm probably going too get the 7870... Thanks.


Of course - make sure you get the 7870 xt edition, as it's significantly more powerful than anything else in that price range.
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