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Replacing a 560ti

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carling220

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Hi there

Bought my rig last christmas, i5 2500K and a 560ti. I can run nearly anything on high, 75% of games on max. Crysis 2, Battlefield and a few titles I have to run things a bit lower. I'd like to be able to run everything on ultra/extreme, within cost. As well, is there that much difference in max to ultra on these games to justify an upgrade?

I think I am right in saying, my stock I5 is probably not the thing holding me back, i'm guessing the 560ti will be giving up before the CPU? I may OC the i5 later, but I can't see it being this at the minute.

Just wondering if there's anything out there to justify upgrading considering cost vs performance, or whether it's that time of year to hold tight.

When I was doing a lot of research for this rig 12 months ago, the gtx 580 was the dogs bananas. If that still the case?

Sorry for the question bombardment, any help appreciated. I attempted to read up but I think people on here tend to very up to date with whats what more than older reviews.
 
whats your budget and which country are you from ? also what psu do you have and how many amps does it provide on +12v rail
 
OP - you have a strong card that is fairly well matched to your stock 2500k. The 560Ti is the reason, however, that you cannot run BF3 and Crysis 2 at maximum settings. One way you can determine this for yourself is by downloading MSI Afterburner and setting the On-Screen Display to show the GPU Usage %. You will likely see that in BF3 and particularly in Crysis 2, you will be at 99% (max) almost all the time. Here is the link: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

As for potential upgrades, I think your best best right now at 1920x1200 is the HD7950, if you are willing to overclock your hardware. The stock performance of the 7950 is nothing to write home about, but it has a lot of headroom, much more than the GTX670/680 or even the HD7970. At stock it will be about 30-50% faster than a GTX560ti (See: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/547?vs=645), which on its own really isn't worth the investment, but it has probably another 25% of headroom for overclocking.

If you aren't into overclocking, you might instead look at the GTX670, which has excellent stock performance and can be had for $335AR: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814162108

Or step up to an HD7970, which is very fast out of the box and has good OC headroom if you want to use it. It starts at $380 but includes Crysis 3, which may be a big selling point for you: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...on%20HD%207970

Just make sure you have room in your case - the HD7000 series has a very long circuit board, much longer than the 560Ti, and with some cases will hit the hard drive cage.

By the way, if you invest over $300 in a GPU, you should be willing to overclock your CPU to get the most out of your investment.
 
Iwould OC your card and wait till the 700 series are out, or make upgrade to something like a non ti 660 to hold you off.

A 660 non ti is 2x the performance of the 560ti while using less power Chek this out!
 
Necc said:
Iwould OC your card and wait till the 700 series are out, or make upgrade to something like a non ti 660 to hold you off.

A 660 non ti is 2x the performance of the 560ti while using less power Chek this out!
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You've got to be kidding. It's about 30% faster on average, and would be a terrible upgrade from a 560Ti.
 
I just replaced my my GTX 560 Ti OC with a MSi Twin Frozr III HD 7950 and couldn't be happier. Also game at 1920x1080
 
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