I recently upgraded my system to a 1366 i7 975 with 12GB of RAM and am looking into finally upgrading my trusty but aging GTX 280. My motherboard is the Gigabyte G1 Sniper and have a 850W 80+ silver-rated PSU so I will probably also keep the 280 as a secondary card for PhysX.
Due to a very good price I originally tried the 6870 but found it to be on par with my 280, except for the DX11 features and ended up returning it.
I am basically looking for a gaming card that will breeze through pretty much any game in the foreseeable future at a 1920x1200 resolution. FXAA, high Tessellation etc at a minimum stable framerate of at least 25-30 and an average of about 40-45.
The game that I found to be the most taxing on my current system is Batman Arkham City due to the extensive use of PhysX.
nVidia GPUs are preferred for that reason alone, however, I can still go the ATI (now AMD) route using the patch that allows my 280 to do all the PhysX work so I won't kick a better deal from the AMD camp out of bed over that.
Cards I am currently looking into are the 570, 580 and 6970 but only because I am not yet familiar with the 6xx and 7xxx series.
Thank you in advance!!!
Due to a very good price I originally tried the 6870 but found it to be on par with my 280, except for the DX11 features and ended up returning it.
I am basically looking for a gaming card that will breeze through pretty much any game in the foreseeable future at a 1920x1200 resolution. FXAA, high Tessellation etc at a minimum stable framerate of at least 25-30 and an average of about 40-45.
The game that I found to be the most taxing on my current system is Batman Arkham City due to the extensive use of PhysX.
nVidia GPUs are preferred for that reason alone, however, I can still go the ATI (now AMD) route using the patch that allows my 280 to do all the PhysX work so I won't kick a better deal from the AMD camp out of bed over that.
Cards I am currently looking into are the 570, 580 and 6970 but only because I am not yet familiar with the 6xx and 7xxx series.
Thank you in advance!!!