what should I buy pci e 2.0 x16

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trying to upgrade PC to play COD ghosts currently have MSI4890 1 GB

looking on newegg at 2GB video cards but not sure what to get

thanks for any help
 
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Rocketninja16
It comes down to personal preference really. If it were me, I'd be buying a GTX 770.

The AMD cards in the same range are usually less money, but I personally have never had luck with them, and I've had 3 cards of theirs all about 3-4 years apart, each time going the cheaper way hoping they'd changed but, sadly I was disappointed.

Again, that's only my personal experience though, there's a lot of folks out there using AMD stuff with no issues whatsoever, I just won't ever use them again after what I've been through.

If your budget is high enough, and you are thinking of a GTX 770, the asus card has been benchmarked at a steady speed of almost 1400mhz at only 73 degrees celcius under load.

Here's the bench for reference...
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It comes down to personal preference really. If it were me, I'd be buying a GTX 770.

The AMD cards in the same range are usually less money, but I personally have never had luck with them, and I've had 3 cards of theirs all about 3-4 years apart, each time going the cheaper way hoping they'd changed but, sadly I was disappointed.

Again, that's only my personal experience though, there's a lot of folks out there using AMD stuff with no issues whatsoever, I just won't ever use them again after what I've been through.

If your budget is high enough, and you are thinking of a GTX 770, the asus card has been benchmarked at a steady speed of almost 1400mhz at only 73 degrees celcius under load.

Here's the bench for reference:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/63417-asus-gtx-770-directcu-ii-oc-review-10.html

Hopefully there are some AMD users on here that can answer your questions about their stuff. I don't use it so I won't speculate.

Again it really comes down to your preference, but like lp231 mentioned, 3.0 are backwards compatible with no issues, I'm using a pcie 3.0 card in a 2.0 board with no issues.
 
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I didnt know that 3.0 would work on my gigabyte motherboard i read the box and it says pcie 2.0
 
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Check my late edit above Joe, lp is right, they work fine, I'm using a 3.0 card in a 2.0 board.
 
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The board supports PCIe 2.0 graphic cards most likely that was the newest technology available at that time. This is much like boards of today where it says supports PCIe 3.0 graphic cards.
When a PCIe 3.0 x16 card is installed into a PCIe x16 2.0 slot, it's equivalent of running at PCIe 3.0 at x8.
 
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