whats the bang for buck atm?
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in the market for a new vid card .. thoughts?
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Tom's Hardware Best Graphics Cards For The Money: July 2011 is a good resource. Work out a budget and choose accordingly.
GTX 560s are looking like a good budget buy (approx $200), can squeeze out an extra $50-100 worth of performance with a bit of tweaking.
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If budget isn't an issue, grab a GTX 590. It's two under-clocked GTX 580s on the same board. You can pick them up for about $850. With a decent i7 CPU and my GTX 590 I'm averaging 110fps in Bad Company 2 (max detail 1920x1080), sometimes dropping to 70fps.
Alternatively, two 580's in SLI will outperform a GTX 590 by 15% approximately, due to higher clocks. But you'll likely pay just over a grand for the pair.
If you'd rather save some cash, a single GTX 580 retails for about $550. It's cutting it fine in max detail, though. Expect an average of 60fps and a minimum of 45fps running Bad Company 2 in 1920x1200 (4xAA 16xAF), DirectX 11, max detail. You'd probably want to run BC2/BF3 in med detail.
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Well decided to go the way of 2 x 2g 6970s on a new mainboard. Have an i7 920 atm so that will do for the time being ..
Will update the ram and start to replace my hdd's to Sata3's over the next few months to christmas and should be ready to go for bf3 when it comes out.
atm no games are really taking me in, and the graphics are maxed already on what im running now, so should do me nicely.
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