[Solved] What graphics card would be best for me

im doing a big upgrade soon and i was wondering if you could help me choose the best card for me.

The specs are :

i5 2500k
Antec TP-750
8GB Ram
ASUS P8Z68-V

My screen resolution is 1080p

i was thinking about the Powercolor HD6990.

is that overkill or will it be good to have for future technologie and games. so that it doesnt go out of date.

thanx

right now, nvidia gtx 570 or amd radeon 6950(1gb) or 6970 any of these will play current and future games on high settings.
newer cards should come out in the next few months: radeon hd 7xxx cards in december, nvidia's 6xx series in q1 2012. if you can hold on to the gtx 460 a little longer than you can try out those cards.

You never can have the best parts haha but im sure that your 6990 will last you a long time im talking 4-5 years if not more.

the 6990 CAN run multiple screens, but is intended for gaming. Like i stated earlier, it is basically a Xfire setup with 2 GPU's on one board. It will last for a very long time. If you want a 580, its kind of over priced. I would go 570 or 6970 and save the money for the 10% performance difference if you want to go the single card to xfire/sli later route

what would be better. get a 6990 now and get another 1 in lets say. 5 years. or get a GTX580 now and add onother one in about 2 years. i dont think i will be gaming much in 5 years. #studying

i think i will go with the GTX 580. due to lower power consumption than the 6990. and temps. i can simply add onother 580 if i want to get more performance. i have the GTX460 now. and have no problem really. but with the newer games i wont be able to max it out. specially DIABLO 3!!.

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if you decide to get a gtx 580 you'll get nvidia's 3d, physx, tessallation, cuda.
you can use the gtx 460 for additional physx if you want. you won't get eyefinity with nvidia.
you might wanna get a strong 900w+ 80+ gold psu for 580 and 1200w+ one for 580 sli. and lots of cooling inside your pc's case.

Its not possible to SLI GTX 460 and 8600GT.

the price of a HD 6990. keep in mind. dont want to use up all my power and i dont want o oven in my pc

He's not talking about SLI, he wants to use the old card for PhysX, along with whatever more powerful GPU he gets for his display.
For those few games that use PhysX, yes I think this would work pretty well. Worth the power? Hard to say, but if you really like eye candy, probably so.
I think a single GTX570 would be a nice starting point. It is a considerable upgrade from what you have, but leaves room to add another one for SLI. I don't think the HD6990 is cost effective, and you'd need to play driver games to get PhysX to work. If you get two high-end cards for SLI, you won't have the power to also run your GTX460 for PhysX, but two high-end cards can probably also handle the PhysX without too much trouble.

I think that now is not the best time to buy a 500$ or more gpu. With (according to nvidia and amd) kepler and southern islands being only 50 days away I would way a bit cause if you want to spend that much you want the best and you dont want a 50day best setup . You can take a GTX570/HD6970 and you will have great 1080p performance without spending a fortune. A cheaper option is GTX560Ti/HD6950 1GB. And these are good choices in case you dont have a 50day-patience .

Its going to be more than 50 day till the high end card are going to come out the mid rang is coming out first and then the high end will be over priced. I would suggest waiting but if you don't want to wait i would get the gtx 580 or get 2 6950s crossfire.

i think i will decide on spot when im gona buy my new rig.. thats in a while. for now ill just wait

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