NVidia GTX570 Enough for 3D Gaming?

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It's going to be very good and will play 3D games and movies, especially when you only run 1920x1080. It will be also even better when it has MSI Twin/Dual (you said) Frozer III cooler. Good luck :).

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Even the GT430 can handle 3D movies, so the question is what can handle the 3D gaming. I'm assuming you mean at 1080 resolution.

The GTX560TI or GTX570 are the cards I would use to handle 3D gaming. Remember that because its going to render everything twice your frame rates will basically be cut in half. So look at your card at the res you want and ask if half that will be ok with you.
 
Twin Frozr II would be an unwise choice for the 570 if you plan on overclocking (who doesn't ?)

http://www.overclock.net/t/929152/have-you-killed-a-570-no-recent-deaths-buy-some-570s/550

- Gigabyte 570 OC Windorce 3x and MSI 570 TwinFrozr II both use the reference PCB design with 6 phase VRM (4 for GPU and 2 for memory). They simply put a custom cooler on top. MSI cards have similar incidents reported

Gainward 570 Phantom, Gainward 570 GSl, Palit 570 Sonic Platinum and Asus GTX570 DirectCU II all have 8 phase VRMs (6 GPU and 2 memory). EVGA has a 4+2 design.

For 3D gaming I'd recommend:

$290 Asus 120Hz Monitor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236104
$460 (2) 900 Mhz 560 Ti's http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121425
$150 3D Vision 2 Kit http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814998061

There's a kit with the monitor and 3D glasses on newegg but as far as I can tell, it's the older glasses not the Vision 2

At 1920 x 1200, the twin 560's get 862 fps, the 570 524 fps. On the 120Hz 3D monitors, that 65% increase in performance is going to come in very handy. I have had occasion (rare one at that) to get on my 15 year old son's box to play Arkham City with two of those cards and it was an eye opening experience.
 
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