New Video Card Suggestion - Four Year Old Rig

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My last build was in early 2010 that included an i7 920, G.Skill DDR3 1600, 580 GTX, ASUS P6T Deluxe MB, Corsair 1000W power supply, CoolerMaster full tower, Panasonic 65" 1080p plasma. I'm wondering how my CPU will keep up with today's best cards. I'm in the $500 - $600 range max and usually run nVidia but did run a 5870 once, so I'm open. I'd prefer to not upgrade anything else other than the video card, however I don't want to bottleneck it either. Would my i7 that I have OC'd to 3.6 run a 780 card very well? Or would getting another 580 GTX card for SLI be nearly as good as running a 780 GTX?

Any suggestions are much appreciated! Thanks!!
 
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Hey Hockster,

I'm an owner of a gtx 760 (a fairly new gpu from nvidia). It's honestly a great card, best one I've ever had. It plays bf4, arma 2 and pretty much any other game you can think of on ultra. I have the OC Windforce Gigabyte version which in my opinion is the best out of this range. EVGA have messed up the 760, and not much else has really been said about the rest. Your 1000w psu will take it, although it is a mammoth card... I take it your case is big enough but just warning you.

Buying this card leaves you a little bit left over in case you need to upgrade something else, always a good idea in my mind. I wouldn't go higher than this card, what's the point in spending more if you won't use its full potential?

Hope I helped
 
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Unless you'll be gaming at over 1080p resolutions, I'd have to say that the new Radeon 280X looks like a very good card and it's around $300 on Newegg right now and has comparable performance to a GTX 770 for $100 less. You'd be able to max out the most current games at 1080p with it, and in crossfire it'd probably be great for 4K/triple monitor setups. You could definitely run 2 with that 1000W PSU. Hope this helps!
 
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I just bought a 65" 1080p plasma. So far my current setup seems to power it, though I'm not sure if it could be dragging my 580 card down or not. I'll take a look at the 280x and also the 290x. It sounds like Radeon has caught back up again since the last time I was in the market. Thanks for the input.

I just edited my original post to include the question on if getting another 580 GTX to SLI with my current would be almost as good as running a single 780 card?

 
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Glad I could help, for 1080p you'd be fine with the 280X. I have a GTX 770 in my rig and I've seen reviews between it and the 280X and they're just within a few frames of each other. 280X is definitely the better value of the two. As for the GTX 580, you could monitor your frames right now using an application like Fraps and compare them to online benchmarks for the 280/290X and see if it looks like it'd be worth it. Just don't do like one of my friends and leave a still screen up too long because plasma tvs can burn a still image into the screen if it's left on too long.
 
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