Help me replace GTX 460!

[j03h4gLund]

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My budget is $300-$450

I. Display Resolution:
1920 x 1080

II. Any particular preferences:
The Nvidia card with the best warranty and has the least amount of heat & noise.

III. Do you plan to have any Multi-GPU solutions such as Crossfire or SLI?
Maybe 2-way SLI Eventually.

IV. Have you previously looked at a product(s) which you feel would fit your needs?
Yes. The MSI GTX 660 TI or XFX 7870 would probably suit my current needs but I want something that will be a bit more future-proof for Battlefield 4 and be able to run Rift w/ everything maxed at 1920x1080 including super-sampling in raids.

V. Do you plan on overclocking the card you intend to purchase?
Undecided.

Thank yaw!

 

[zaydq]

a 680 is only 5%-7% faster than a 670. Your best bet on the Nvidia side is to pick up an MSI GTX670 Power Edition or an Evga FTW model.

In terms of AMD, the 7970 GHZ edition falls at the high end of your price range and is faster than the GTX670 and generally beats the 680 in a majority of benchmarks.

The 7970 can also be OC'd further as Nvidia has locked voltage control on the GTX6xx series.

Your second option from AMD is the HD 7950, Gigabyte's WF3 7950, MSI TFIII 7950 and Sapphire's Vapor-X 7950 are all great overclockers with good custom AIB coolers. Many members on our forum have gotten the TFIIIs up to 1100+ on the core and generally outpace a stock GTX 680/7970 ghz edition in terms of performance.



I'm sure others will come to answer you, this is just a generalization of what you're looking at, avoid the 660ti/7870, they won't future proof you too much.

(If a GTX680 beat a 3-way SLI 670 setup, then whatever bench/game they used clearly wasn't optimized for any SLI performance over 2-way, or even any SLI whatsoever)

 

[j03h4gLund]

You're right, the video was GTX 690 vs 3-way-SLI'd GTX 670's

I'm not too sure I want to go with an AMD/Radeon w/ the driver issues they've been having, not to mention the lack of Physx which I would imagine BF4 and future games would use?

Thanks for the reply.

 

[blastingcap]

Reading your II and IV together, with a budget max of $450 as you stated, there are only two options:

gtx 680
gtx 670

Price/perf goes to the GTX 670 so I'd probably go for that. Barely any slower than a gtx 680 for significantly less.

 

[j03h4gLund]

Reading your II and IV together, with a budget max of $450 as you stated, there are only two options:

gtx 680
gtx 670

Price/perf goes to the GTX 670 so I'd probably go for that. Barely any slower than a gtx 680 for significantly less.

Yah... I really should have bitten at the MSI GTX 670 @ $322 a week ago. Any brand I should particularly stay away from if I decide to go w/ the 670?

 

[3DVagabond]

I would recommend either a 670 or 7950. Stock, the 670 wins. O/C'd they are pretty even, but a good clocking 7950 can be a little bit faster. "Future proofing" is in the 7950's favor with more RAM and memory bandwidth. The 7950 is better bang/$, but both are well beneath your top budget amount.

If you prefer nVidia though you would likely be happier with the 670. It's human nature to find more fault with things we are less fond of and be more forgiving for things we like.

 

[guskline]

I own 2 of the EVGA gtx670 FTWs and they are very good. They come OCd to nearly the gtx680 stock and they are built on the 680 pcb. Great cards.