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drakon3rd

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hey i would like know if someone can recommend me a card. ive had the EVGA GeForce GTX 670 DirectX 11 02G-P4-2670-KR 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
for about 4 years and it died on me.
and wanted to know what card i should get next? i saw the GTX-970, but dunno if want to spend 300-400$ on it. but again kinda want to know what are my option. if anything i might as well spend it. and if i dont need to upgrade anything?
mostly play Path of eixle
but play others games too
DOTA 2, sometime FPS, F2P mmorpgs
Thanks
 
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You don't need a GTX 970 if you're playing PoE, DOTA 2, some FPS games (defacto Battlefield 4) and F2P mmorpgs.

F2P RPG's are pretty much CPU dependent, so a mid-range card can max it out. PoE and DOTA 2 can easily be maxed out with a low-end card. If you're playing FPS games like Battlefield 4, which are more demanding, you'd need something like a GTX 950 or an R7 270x. But if it's CS:GO, which can be ran easily, you could use a much lower end card.

Now since you were running a GTX 670, you probably have a good PSU, thus you won't need to upgrade anything. So since you're not playing the heaviest demanding titles with heavy graphical modding, etc. I'd reccomend a GTX 950. It is about half the price a 970, and you'll be using it to...
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You don't need a beasty card for those games. The 970 will pretty much max out all games at FullHD (except w/ MSAA) and get more than 60FPS. A new generation will be soon released. A few months. If you don't want to spend much a 960, or 950/750ti will do the job. Don't expect it to max out anything though (AAA games, mobas, ccgo, and indies will run very well)
 
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You don't need a GTX 970 if you're playing PoE, DOTA 2, some FPS games (defacto Battlefield 4) and F2P mmorpgs.

F2P RPG's are pretty much CPU dependent, so a mid-range card can max it out. PoE and DOTA 2 can easily be maxed out with a low-end card. If you're playing FPS games like Battlefield 4, which are more demanding, you'd need something like a GTX 950 or an R7 270x. But if it's CS:GO, which can be ran easily, you could use a much lower end card.

Now since you were running a GTX 670, you probably have a good PSU, thus you won't need to upgrade anything. So since you're not playing the heaviest demanding titles with heavy graphical modding, etc. I'd reccomend a GTX 950. It is about half the price a 970, and you'll be using it to it's full potential. IF you want something a bit more powerful, you could get a GTX 960 which is about $40 more expensive but adds another 15 frames depending on the title. And these 9xx cards consume 2x less power than the 6xx cards, so you can safely overclock it and bump up some more performance given you get a good heatsink model for the card.
 
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imrazor

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None of the games you mention are terribly demanding. As a point of reference, the GTX 960 is about as powerful as your old GTX 670. Before you jump onto a new card, however, you need to consider that in the near future NVidia and AMD will be releasing a whole new generation of GPUs. If I were you, I'd pick up a GTX 750 Ti to hold you over (should play all your current games at OK framerates), and get a new Pascal/Polaris GPU in a few months or a year if you're happy with the 750 Ti.
 
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Any brand. Chose the one that looks cooler or the cheapest. The performance difference is irrelevant. EVGA has the best support from what I've heard. I only had MSI GPUs (and my current mobo), and I also didn't have a problem.
 
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