Stutter-free GPU Cards and 120hz Monitors

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So I have two questions here :

1-) I have bad experience with cards that stutters , since I changed my 5670 two years ago and I am changing my GPU card half-yearly because of that stutter problem although I achieve high FPS so i am planning to buy an new GPU but the main and may be only feature I want in it is that I want it stutter-free , not necessary too powerful but i want it a not-old one and a stutter-free one

2-) I want to buy a 120hz monitor ( Not necessary 3D) with a size range between 23 and 27 inch , So can you recommend to me some good ones because I am a complete novice in monitors ?

Thanks :)
 
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No such thing as stutter free(I do not care how good your system is. things happen).

At some point a frame will go out of perfect timing or any time you play without vsync you can get stutter in some games(for real it is simply that one part of the screen rendered before the rest and causes what feels like stutter) while others may have issues with vsync enabled(some source based games have had issues in the past). How much you will see it depends on the users sensitivity to certain timing issues.

Loading textures on the fly in a game will also cause pauses that feel like a stutter. Other processes in the background can cause a drop in frame rates(even for a split second)

Closest you may get is getting one of Nvidia's newer...
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what do you mean by stutter? a 5670 was never a strong card, it could just have been giving you slow FPS. power will increase fps and reduce the chance of stuttering, but what if it is caused by the CPU.

You need to tell us everything, and your FPS rates whilst gaming.
 
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converting to dollars , my budget is 270$ at max for the card , might level it to 300$ if the card is really stutter-free

It would be nicer if it works fine with my antec 450w PSU but it seems that i will be forced to change it to any 500w PSU to be comfortable with the new card

Firstly I think you misunderstood me 13thmonkey , The 5670 didn't give me a single stutter although not reaching 60FPS in most games while it is the vice versa in later cards , The stutter i see happens in some games but not all games and it is usually in constant events/places but sometimes it occurs randomly in some games and most of time it occurs in interior places more than open places (with exception of games like Batman AC and L.A Noire) although having high FPS , it happens for milliseconds as if the game stops in time but only for micro-milli-seconds and the time between every stutter isn't a small one so it doesn't appear insanely , My CPU is AMD Phenom X6 1045T 2.7Ghz but with that CPU with 5670 there was not stutter at all , Yes the FPS was below 60FPS in most games but there was not stutter at all while in my latest card for example (7850) I get high FPS (>60) with stutters/frame latency/frametime problems

When I used MSI After burner and monitoring frametime there was some spikes when the stutters happens

My Spec are :

AMD Phenom X6 1045t 2.7Ghz
AMD Radeon 7850
8 GB Ram
Gigabyte 78LMT-S2P
Windows 7 64-bit
 
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No such thing as stutter free(I do not care how good your system is. things happen).

At some point a frame will go out of perfect timing or any time you play without vsync you can get stutter in some games(for real it is simply that one part of the screen rendered before the rest and causes what feels like stutter) while others may have issues with vsync enabled(some source based games have had issues in the past). How much you will see it depends on the users sensitivity to certain timing issues.

Loading textures on the fly in a game will also cause pauses that feel like a stutter. Other processes in the background can cause a drop in frame rates(even for a split second)

Closest you may get is getting one of Nvidia's newer cards(650 ti boost and newer) and a screen that has Gsync built in(currently I think ONE can be modified to have it. so this causes quite a price increase at this time).

The "AMD" stuttering was mostly an issue with multi card setups(single cards should not have had such issues).
 
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I play at 1080p but I am willing to downgrade to 720p if that means getting rid of stuttering so my main concern is the stuttering itself

Thanks for your help and I hope that you know anything about the stutter in 270x :)
 
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Nothing you can do will fix stuttering completely.

The more FPS you get, generally reduces stuttering.

V-sync, if you fail to reach your refresh rate, will cause mild stuttering. If you reach your refresh rate, you may experience increased latency.
Without V-sync, you get tearing, and that can feel like mild stuttering too, depending on how things go. Though stuttering really isn't the right word, but it can be disruptive.

The most stutter free experience would be with a G-sync monitor, which requires a Geforce 650 or newer card.
 
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Thanks for all your answers :)

So in other words , My problem can be defined more as a frame time problem , So does the 270x that I plan to buy have those annoying spikes in the frame time ? of course i know every card created has those spikes but it varies between cards

And I hope someone answer the 120hz monitor question
 
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