What GPU should I buy?

Mosephuss

Mosephuss

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I'm building a new gaming PC in February and I can't decide between the EVGA GTX 660Ti, EVGA GTX 670 and the MSI HD 7950. I'm going to use 1 monitor and I'm going to play my games at 1920x1080. The GTX cards come with AC3 but the 7950 comes with FarCry 3 (Which I plan to buy), Sleeping Dogs(I own it on XBOX), and Hitman: Absolution(I barely know anything about it). I'm also going to be playing a TON of BF3 and Skyrim as they are both my two favorite games. I also plan on some of the older CoD titles but I can max some of them out on a 8800GT so there is no problem with those. My CPU will be an I5 3570K. Throughout all of my different PC's that I've owned they have all had NVidia cards and I bought the PC's with the NVidia cards. Which one of these GPU's should I buy?
 
Im a big believer that you should buy the fastest video card you can afford and out of your list that would be the GTX670. Its the 2nd fastest single video card on the market right now with the 7970 and GTX680 tied as far as Im concerned for 1st. The 7970 is worth it for $425 or so but the GTX680 is still hovering around $500 and isn't really worth it. The GTX670 is the video card Im really wanting. Itll average well over 50 fps in any game on the market right now at max settings at your resolution. That's what Im after. Best frame rates with the maximum settings. I want as much eye candy as I can get.
 
If you're talking about the EVGA GTX 670 you're talking about the FTW edition? Then I would strongly recommend this one .. has the power of a stock 680.
 
Yeah I'm talking about the 670 FTW. I think I'm going to go with that one or the 7950. Mostly the 670 but if I end up really wanting 3 free games instead of 2 I would get the 7950. I still have some time and the GTX 700 series might be out when I start building
 
i personally would go for the 7950. at the minute it has the best price to performance (that can improve if you sell some of the free games), with the new amd "never settle" drivers performance in BF3 will skyrocket (that's just in their beta release) and there is an additional gig of vram. in my opinion the gtx 670 is overpriced, the only advantage it brings is txaa and 3d vision (if thats your thing), the gtx 660ti is nothing more than a 670 with a vram speed bottle-necking it.

save money and get the 7950 and not 670
 
I'd go for a 670 if you plan on using a single monitor setup for gaming.

The Asus DirectCU II cards are a good purchase and the heatpipes on the cooler look sweet if you care about that stuff :p
 
+1 to the 7950.
That game bundle at the moment is kick ass in terms of value. Sleeping dogs in high res and beefed up textures is leaps and bounds ahead of its console counterpart.
Most 7950s will oc to equal or greater specs than 7970's anyway.
 
Having owned both a 670 and a 7950....

The 7950 performs absolutely fine and will pretty much max out framerates of pretty much any game if you OC it. I'd get that if you're only wanting to run 1 screen.

Make sure you get a non-reference version though as I found the reference 7950 really loud.
 
670s and 7950s are both awesome but for slightly different reasons.
I see it as 7950 if you are an overclocker - 670 if not.

Personally I'd wait for a bit. AMDs 8000 series will be out by the time you want to buy and that will be likely to drastically change things up.
 
I'd say 7950, if you are spending 670 money you might as well get a 7970 which will overclock better plus you get the free games with it.

Or what M&P said and wait for the 8xxx series in Feb/March
 
The reason I pick the GTX670 is that while it's dead even in almost all games with the 7950, for some reason it runs away in BF3, Batman and a couple others but the 7950 doesn't run away from the 670 in anything.

Honestly you can't to wrong with either so I guess its a kind of trade off. The 7950 is $40 cheaper but the GTX670 is faster in a couple more games.

I don't consider overclocking in choosing cause it will vary depending on the card you get so I think its best to compare at stock clocks.
 
MacLeod said:
The reason I pick the GTX670 is that while it's dead even in almost all games with the 7950, for some reason it runs away in BF3, Batman and a couple others but the 7950 doesn't run away from the 670 in anything.

Honestly you can't to wrong with either so I guess its a kind of trade off. The 7950 is $40 cheaper but the GTX670 is faster in a couple more games.

I don't consider overclocking in choosing cause it will vary depending on the card you get so I think its best to compare at stock clocks.
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That's actually good advice even though I love to overclock one can never be guaranteed a card can even over-clock more than stock. Vendors only carry warranty on stock clocks and promise nothing more than that. Any OC beyond that is free performance.

Basing your purchase on the fact your card can overclock will only lead to disappointment if it cannot. At the moment these cards are right on par with performance so I would just get what's less expensive to the OP and call it a good buy.
 
I'm in the same boat as you, and from research here's my take: A lot of those games you mentioned are well known to use up more than 1GB of video ram, sometimes over 2, depending on your settings. I would say the 7950 is the safest bet. Those are known to overclock past 670 potential, if you're lucky ;) (and farcry3 with it shows amd has confidence in their product)

And as far as i know, macleod might know otherwise though, since the catalyst update the 7950 has been edging ahead of the 670, without overclocks. Though personally i wouldnt expect a 299$ 670 equivilent, but recent benchmarks are showing it.... beating the 670 in most titles, with the exception of one i saw on another tech site, but the users said it was a faulty 7950 card.
 
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I personally prefer Nvidia cards, because of Physx. But you need to look at more than just performance or performance per $, you need to take your warranty in to consideration... I recomand the ASUS 660ti DirectCU(and it's faster than the 7950) (it's 299$ in amazon (cheaper))
I recommend the ASUS DCU2 mostly because of the fact that it's well designed and because you have DIGI+ VRM with 6-phase Super Alloy Power technology that make this an amazing overclocker.
Any higher than that will be an OVERKILL! Really, don't take the 670!
 
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