I5 2500k + gtx 680 or I5 2400 + gtx960 4gb

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The gtx 680 is a wonderful card . It's old but it's awesome . I had a gtx 670 with a10 7870k ( cpu is pretty close to an i5) and it ran bf4 ultra maxxed out no lag . Now keep in mind , no newer drivers for these cards anymore I don't think . Atkeast for the gtx 670 . So if you plan on getting good fps at a good price . These are both good . The gtx 960 will pair good with an I5 cpu . You could go with a fx 6300 too.

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The gtx 680 is a wonderful card . It's old but it's awesome . I had a gtx 670 with a10 7870k ( cpu is pretty close to an i5) and it ran bf4 ultra maxxed out no lag . Now keep in mind , no newer drivers for these cards anymore I don't think . Atkeast for the gtx 670 . So if you plan on getting good fps at a good price . These are both good . The gtx 960 will pair good with an I5 cpu . You could go with a fx 6300 too.
 
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Passmark benchmarks the 680 slightly higher than the 960. Passmark ranks the 960 higher on value of $$ spent to performance gained. This makes sense because the 680 is almost 3 years old. (It might be I haven't checked). If you're getting the 960 only get the 2GB version because the GPU doesn't get past the 2GB of VRAM it has. I'll try and find examples, but the 960 taps out at around 95% utilization so the extra VRAM doesn't do anything.