New video card advice sought

If anyone remembers, I had a bit of an adventure late last year with an nForce 980a motherboard from MSI (NF980-G65), which I replaced with an ASUS motherboard with the same chipset (M4N98TD).

At the time, I had to make do with a single core processor. But two months ago, I was finally able to afford an AMD Phenom II X6 1045T. This alone has greatly increased the performance of my computer, but of course I don't really wish to stop there.

Besides upgrading the OS from XP to Win7, I'll most definitely want to upgrade the video card. The GT 440 I have in there now is certainly better than nothing, but I always intended to get something better as soon as I had the chance. I think that chance will be in about a month or two, so I'm curious if anyone out there has any suggestions? I'm still rather partial to nVidia, you ought to know!

Thanks in advance!

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Its going to come down to your budget.

For Low to Mid end cards AMD is generally better value. For higher end its going to come down to price and brand preference.

So, you'll have to tell us what your budget is first. No point in suggesting a card if you can't afford it.

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H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

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Easy as pie then.

GTX 670, get it, love it and don't look back.

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H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

on the nvidia side i'd stick around GTX 570 or GTX 560Ti with your current CPU

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Don't be a mindless farm toon, we may need you on a non-soft SF someday. =)

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For nvidia resellers I prefer EVGA. YMMV

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H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

First things first:

1. What is your power supply?
2. What is your budget for this upgrade?

Edit: Okay, read a bit further. Still need #1. But if the answer to that is within certain boundaries, yeah, with $400, go for a GTX670.


Total, complete, utter, massive, UNDENIABLE OVERKILL for CoH!


This isn't "Use a cannon to kill a mosquito". This is "Kill a mosquito by dropping the planet it's on into a black hole".



But you know what? There's no "kill" like "Overkill".

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Okay, not a huge fan of Rosewill or of "OOH! SPARKLIEZ!" But the PSU should be perfectly acceptable for a GTX 670.

UP AND AT 'EM!"

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The GTX 670 is a relatively low power card for it's performance, nVidia finally got their power use under control. Outperforms all the GTX 5xx series cards except the dual GPU one. Only mildly slower than the GTX 680 but 20% cheaper.

Yes it is equivalent to the ending of Gunbuster for this game but I assume you play others as well.

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Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components

Tempus unum hominem manet

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H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

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Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components

Tempus unum hominem manet

So Father. What was it like back then.

Before...y'know...dirt?

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Darkness.

Then their was light once ... once photons decoupled from the electrons and protons in the photon–baryon fluid.

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Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components

Tempus unum hominem manet