What new graphics card do I buy?

[wassupdoc]

So I have just miraculously sold my two Gtx460's for £260 and I need a new GPU pronto, as I have a Crosshair V formula (no onboard video). So I now have around £400 to spend on a new Nvidia GPU (has to be nvidia as I use 3D-Vision) But I have no Idea which one to get

I play heavily modded games like Skyrim with hundreds of texture mods and Fallout New vegas - same. However I also use my pc to watch TV and movies on and listen to music, so I need a quiet card for this. I was looking at the EVGA 4gb Superclocked (but I can't find any reviews on it

) and the ASUS DCII TOP 2Gb, they are both the same price.

Any of you guys have any suggestions or elaborations?

 

[SieB]

4gb 670 would be what i'd get, 4gb versions are the same as the 2gb versions, so performance wise they are the same just with the extra vram.

 

[ruthless_villain]

yeah im looking into getting the 670 (680 pcb version) when i get my 2560x1440 monitor, fantastic value for money in my opinion

 

[wassupdoc]

But don't the 4gb versions run hotter and noisier? and Is there any non reference 4gb cards?

Also you can't overclock them as much?

 

[SieB]

I haven't read anything about the 4gb cards running hotter and noisier, you might not be able to push the memory clock as high like with the 3gb 580s vs the 1.5gb 580s but you can still OC them, not that there is a need to though

If you want 3D and heavily modded games though you are going to need as much vram as you can get, don't think there are any reference 4gb models because strait from Nvidia they only come with 2gb. Only other alternative would be a 3gb 7970.

 

[wassupdoc]

the evga one is reference design, and i thought they ran hotter because there is twice the amount of memory to cool

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

the evga one is reference design, and i thought they ran hotter because there is twice the amount of memory to cool

They will run hotter, but only by about 2-4 degrees.

 

[wassupdoc]

just been reading bad things about the superclocked versions, they may even be recalled, guess i'm getting the TOP then

 

[Skug]

I think it was just a certain batch of the superclockeds that were bad. EVGA even gave people with defective 670s an upgrade to the ftw version for free. I've been trolling the EVGA forums while waiting for the 4gb 680

Newer 670 sc shouldn't have the issues and I doubt they would let the same issue slip by on the 4g. I'd still get the asus 670 though. It's pretty and has a full size pcb.