A good GTX 560 Ti

[dragon7786]

here are the cards i am looking at getting:

448:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130738

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121480

Norm:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130683


Please let me know what you think i should go with?

 

[samuelspark]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131473
Better performance for less power.

 

[dragon7786]

why that brand and that GPU? like why go with a radeon instead of a nVIDIA

 

[dragon7786]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131473
Better performance for less power.

Why that brand or could i go with a Asus and why a Radeon?

 

[ilysaml]

Cause that's what i told you in the other thread, better performance for less power and same price.

 

[dudewitbow]

the only sole reason at this price point to go with nvidia is if you use any programs that actually utilize the cuda coding language set, or ever plan to use the card as a physx card in the future.(which applies to a very limited set of games). Price to performance/temperature/power consumption wise, the 7850 is the solid card in this price range which rivals the gtx 570 at a lower cost.

 

[dragon7786]

Cause that's what i told you in the other thread, better performance for less power and same price.

hahaha ill give you that one ily.


also i plan on running BF3 and MC and also a little skyrim. is that gonna run well on the 7850?


Also what company sapphire or Asus.... and i know you saved Asus already i just wanna double check

 

[dudewitbow]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/547?vs=549

just a short reference on 7850 vs 560ti(normal) these are at stock clocks i presume as well. the 7850 beats the 560 ti in almost all categories except specifically portal 2 and battlefield 3(pretty close though). Then this would be where the radeon 7k series overclocking potential kicks in because the 7k series can easily overclock on the base clock (860 mhz standard speed, most people can obtain ~1200 mhz) which is the reason why it rivals the 570

 

[bigcyco1]

I would wait for the GTX660 but if you get the 7850 go with the Asus

 

[dudewitbow]

^ tis what i would do at this time period to see how the 660 is priced and how it fares(which will likely replace the 570 at the 300$ point)

 

[dragon7786]

thanks dudewitbow, now the question comes down to should i get an asus or a sapphire?

 

[dudewitbow]

look up reviews online, both are solid cards. If i could use an asus one in person, i can give my opinion since i own a sapphire one myself, but I cant be biased and take one side without trying the other first.

 

[dragon7786]

but the question can be asked when is the 660 going to be coming out? lol

 

[bigcyco1]

You could get this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130593 it rivals with the 7870 http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7850_HD_7870/26.html

 

[dragon7786]

look up reviews online, both are solid cards. If i could use an asus one in person, i can give my opinion since i own a sapphire one myself, but I cant be biased and take one side without trying the other first.

i respect that answer alot, how do you like your sapphire and how hard was everything to set up?

 

[ilysaml]

hahaha ill give you that one ily.


also i plan on running BF3 and MC and also a little skyrim. is that gonna run well on the 7850?


Also what company sapphire or Asus.... and i know you saved Asus already i just wanna double check

You opened too many threads asking for a graphics card, now I guess you know what you want.
Just make sure your threads are closed not to be merged.

 

[dudewitbow]

temperature wise, its at ~34 idle and ~5x celcius on load. the only game which had artifacting issues for me so far is starcraft 2. where it would artifact the water at certain points

 

[dragon7786]

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