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I am planing on upgrading my video card soon and am unable to decide on which would be my best choice. At the moment I am stuck between three choices.

EVGA gtx 570 1.25gb card
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/ite...

MSI gtx 660 TI 2gb card
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/ite...

Gigabyte 7950 3gb card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
I'm looking to stay in the 200-300 dollar range. Any suggestions, information or other card ideas would be greatly appreciated.



PS incase specs are an issue, mine are as follows

AMD fx6120
10 gb ddr3 1600
2 x 1TB hdd
gtx 550TI 1gb (just not cutting it)
400 watt power supply (will be ordering a 650 watt when I order the card)

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that is what i was thinking however i have read a few reviews saying radeons drivers tend to crash often. honestly i have never owned a radeon so i dont really know how often it really would be if ever.
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personally (im sure its obvious by now) im not the best with video cards. i am open to suggestions. also would you say that the 660 TI should last me 2.5 - 3 years of good to decent gaming performance. (i am a bit limited as the mobo has only one pcie x16 slot)

also, i do realise that i kinda f'd up on buying this comp. I was in a rush and couldnt wait to get off my 7 year old pentium 4 (although it served me well until it finally burned out)
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I would say that a 660Ti would probably have lifespan of 2.5 years tops if you want medium to high settings with no AA+AF yes you would be just fine. But keep in mind though its mighty hard to judge what the future will bring.

is that for current performance or possible future. currently games such as planetside 2 get me and average of 40 frames on high settings with no AA+AF at 1920x1080 resolution on my 550 TI. It also handles borderlands 2 on high with no physx
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Well I would say now you could get high settings with ease. And you could probably toss in some light AA+AF now and have no problems at all. However I would feel in the next couple of years you would have to scale down towards the end. So what I'm saying is by the end you should still be able to mix in high and medium settings where as now you could max out everything but AA+AF hope that answers your question.
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xroe said:
well i think i'll go with the 660TI, now i only have one more question. any specific brand to recommend?


Really truly depends on you. Do you value warranty/support if so EVGA Is it. Stuff happens sometimes with cards and you are left with RMA'ing a card if that ends up happening EVGA is the company you would want to have on your side however, if you are looking for the best cooled cards I would look towards these.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=E...

out of all of these I would go ASUS or MSI the gigabyte card is appealing though with 3 gigabytes of ram however EVGA also provides that on some of there cards in that tier.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

The best choice in my opinion is the 7950. But then you surely have to get perhaps a new case as well as psu. So for total youll pay a lot. perhaps u could consider different options if u d like to be more future proof. Get the psu (ex.corsair650)and case(ex.fractal define4), but instead of a 7950 get a new m/b(ex arsock z77 extreme4) and cpu(i5-3570k) with the same amount of cash. Put in your 550 for starters and the rest of your hardware, wait a bit for a gpu and gain double the years future-proof-wise..

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He is playing Borderlands 2 so I would say a nvidia solution would be better for him. I would say you would be just fine with 2 gigabytes xroe. 3 gigabytes is nice because in games like bf3 you end up using 1.5-1.8 in that range at max so I would imagine having a little extra would be nice no you don't get a performance increase from it but you do get a little more ram to draw from. Also with the recent article from techreport I would say the 7950 and the 660Ti are a bit different then what you see. mike.
http://techreport.com/review/23981/radeon-hd-7950-vs-ge...

honestly speaking i only bought that card b/c i was on a 130 dollar budget and i had to get a 400 watt power supply to. the card that came with the comp was a 7570 and i knew it was no where up to the task. i got it knowing i would only use it for about 4 months to hold me off until i could save up enough to get a better card.
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