should i upgrade

[Melanie]

hello looking foward to eighter the new intell boards and cpus or eighter amd bulldozer ...

question is i have a gtx 480 on a should i upgrade if so what would u say would bethe kinda top of the top gpu going into the new sandy bridge or bulldozer chipsset upgrades

i have all ways allways ran and been geforce .only dueot ati's bad repore with driver support .. has the driver support inproved as of yet ..

i guess what im thinking is i can unload my gtx 480 for around 200.00 then add what 150.00 to it for a new higher card ..if so what would the user out there say is the card to go with ....

 

[RussianSensation]

If the noise levels or power consumption of the GTX480 do not bother you, I would wait until 28nm GPUs are released this year to upgrade. The GTX570 is barely faster than a 480 and a 580 is only about 15-18% faster but costs upwards of $500. So there is no reasonable upgrade path for you yet.

On a separate note, AMD drivers are perfectly fine; so don't hesitate to try an AMD card (perhaps if HD7000 series is released before NV's Kepler).

 

[Melanie]

fair enough thanks i did alot of the bench marks and did not see much or a up ....