Any recommendations for GPU upgrade?

[Toxteth O'Grady]

Got a 3 year old rig. It's an ASUS P5K Premium / Q6600 / Enermax MODU 625W psu.

I'm thinking about just upgrading the gpu from the 9800GTX. Any recommendations? What would be the best upgrade before bottlenecking by the rest of the system kicks in?Looking at Futuremark ORB a 560-ti would bump the Vantage score up from 9000 to 21000 with the 6600 so would seem to be a reasonable bang-for-buck upgrade.

TIA

 

[S_I_N]

yup with ur current rig I would suggest the 560Ti but if you plan on upgrading rig later then why not step up somemore to a 570 or 580. But if you plan on staying where ur at you will not regret the 560Ti I had one its an amazing card.

 

[dugdiamond]

560 +1

 

[daantjuh44]

Yeah it really depends on if you're going to upgrade some other parts of your rig soon or not.

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

Thanks for the feedback.

Any recommendations for 560Ti brand?

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

yup with ur current rig I would suggest the 560Ti but if you plan on upgrading rig later then why not step up somemore to a 570 or 580. But if you plan on staying where ur at you will not regret the 560Ti I had one its an amazing card.

You would say that

@OP go with the 560Ti, its a great card for a budget, and is a monster for DX11. BF3 here i come

 

[AMDFTW]

i assume nothing from the AMD side comes into mind?

 

[Skeese]

+1 560Ti

 

[AMDFTW]

5850 as they can be had cheap

 

[dugdiamond]

msi are great

 

[G-Force]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-128-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

^Seems to be a good option vs the 560ti

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

http://www.overclock...=56&subcat=1752

^Seems to be a good option vs the 560ti

not biased red v. green but I was gonna go for an MSI 560Ti at £175 which is a pretty good deal. I'll now have to compare benchies for 560Ti and 6950. Also I think the 6950 can be bios modded/unlocked but will need to look into that now.

Decisions, decisions!!

 

[ruthless_villain]

560Ti evga SC one of the cheapest, is a reference design card incase you want to water cool in the future, awesome evga support etc

 

[DragonPC]

maybe the msi gtx twin frizr II?