Help me chose! GTX 660 vs GTX 580 vs GTX 750 Ti

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I am planning to buy a new graphics card and i cant decide which one should i buy so i am asking the comunity for an opinion. In the title, I listed three cards i have my eye on.
If you have other suggestions in that price range, feel free to let me know.
Just bear in mind that it MUST be a NVIDIA card and i'm running at 1680x1050 resolution (maybe 1920x1080 in future if i buy a new monitor) and im using it mainly for VIDEO GAMES.

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CPU: Intel i5-4440
PSU: LC Power 500W
 
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There really are no other cards in your price range from NVIDIA. I think a GTX660 will be fine for you since you aren't using 1080p. But once you upgrade to a newer monitor, you may want to upgrade the GPU.

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Thats a 5 month old article and not legit, the 750 ti has different specs to what is in that article.. Look at one that actually compares since release, like this one :) :

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http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforce-gtx-750-ti-review,review-32889-9.html
 

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Yeah, you are right. Is there any significant difference between Gigabyte, MSI, Gainward, Asus etc of the same card?
 

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Just different coolers. I like the Asus coolers personally in terms of noise/performance ratio, but Gigabyte and MSI are great too. Never owned a Gainward card I dont think.
 

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The Ti boost is weaker than the 580 and 660 but more powerful than the 750ti.
 

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and which card would you buy for that money?
 

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Personally, I wish I would have purchased a Radeon 7870. But those have their price so inflated now, and since you want NVIDIA, I would suggest that you buy the 580.
 

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You may want to consider a GTX560ti from ebay ($60 to 85 USD), I have no complaints with mine (non ti) running most of the new titles high or above with no plans on upgrading soon.
580's are hot noisy and power hungry,
 

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But i dont really like buying that much old cards such as 580. How exactly do you feel that it's hindered by 192bit bus width?
 

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The GPU can't access the memory as fast as it would as say if it had a 256 bit bus. Also, I wish it had more CUDA cores. That being said, I can max almost all new games at 1920x1080. I ran the Batman Archam origins benchmark and averaged 49fps, which is perfectly playable to me.
 

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And why are you complaining if you have 49fps average at 1080p? :)
 

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Because new games like Battlefield 4 are beginning to show choppy framerates on my GPU.
 

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I think you would get only 3-4 fps more on gtx 580 but ok. Any more suggestions in that price range?
 

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There really are no other cards in your price range from NVIDIA. I think a GTX660 will be fine for you since you aren't using 1080p. But once you upgrade to a newer monitor, you may want to upgrade the GPU.
 
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