Which GPU should i choose??

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Stian Hilstad

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I'm building a gaming computer, and I'm wondering which GPU to choose! The games I'm going to play is titles like skyrim, Metro 2033, Metro Last light, Crysis and similar first person shooters. I want beautiful lifelike graphics.
The choice is between ASUS GeForce GTX680 2GB & EVGA GeForce GTX680 FTW 2GB! Would appreciate an answer!
 
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The Asus has a much better cooler that is very quiet. However, the EVGA card comes with their Step-Up program, in case you thought you might like to upgrade to the new GTX 780 or GTX 770 over the next few months. If you do go with EVGA, look for the FTW+ Signature 2 card.
 
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Also, the 770 model has performance equal to the 680. I'd choose the cheaper of the two.
I have learned from previous mistakes that you don't want to keep chasing the dragon in graphics. The X70 GTX models of recent do a pretty damn good job.
 
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The GTX 680 DirectCU II Top gets my vote. This 680 is the shot caller slaps the other 680's around makes them bow down lol! I would be all over that Asus TOP for its high factory overclock, cool temps, and really, really quiet fans,heavily modified PCB, with an efficient VRM design to produce low temperatures, improved voltage regulation circuitry, much better Chil controller , specially binned chip and voltage control and monitoring support that you won't find on most other non-reference cards.The card a straight beast!
 
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Stian Hilstad

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But what about physx and the other nvidia "advantages"?
 
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Here is my opinion, those are both good cards but the gtx 780 was just released today and can be purchased for about $650. I would take this over both of those cards due to the fact that the 780 is only 15% slower than the Titan. With the 780 you will see a noticeable increase in the graphics between the 780 and the 680. You will be able to OC the 780 about 20% more than the 680 could and it also has a 20% higher turbo speed. Check out this site and you will be able to compare the two cards: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-780-vs-GeForce-GTX-680

But if you just want one of those two i would pick the 680 FTW if you case has sufficient cooling to be able to keep the temperatures low, and the FTW will also outperform the ASUS 680 in a few categories.
 
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That's good to if you play games that work with it.There also Cuda,adaptive vsync HardOCP did a full review on adaptive vsync, was impressed with it if you want to know further details about it: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/04/16/nvidia_adaptive_vsync_technology_review/3

 
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Since both of the cards you are considering are Nvidia cards they will both utilize the advantages of Nvidia technologies like PhysX, Adaptive VSync, FXAA, etc.
 
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So the ASUS GeForce GTX680 2GB has PhysX same as EVGA 680?
 
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Yep.
 
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