Under $200

[Kaldorine]

Okay guys making the purchase on friday. I'm interested in the EVGA B-Stock stuff. A few great deals to be had. I'm mainly looking @ the GTX 480 and the GTX 460 SE SLI 1gb. I did a little research that seemed to say the 460s in sli is faster then a single 480. But the cards that were tested had a higher clock speed then the B-Stock example but it didnt seem to be very much. I'm gaming @ 19x10, Currently on run throughs for both ME1 & 2, Darksiders, Skyrim, D3, Witcher, and whatever else in my steam acct.

Just finish my new build a couple weeks ago. 3570k, GB UD3H, 8gbs RAM and a huge Switch 810 currently gaming on the Intel 4000 which has some decent push to it, but anything will be an upgrade. Also the new case is rocking an Ocz ZT 750 so plenty of grunt to handle almost anything. I was thinking about rockin 2 480s and raise my light bill by several $s. LoL

keeping it under $200 though gotta pick up a NZXT 140 before i start doing some over clocking.

Cheers!

 

[toyota]

no way would I buy a 480 at this point. its way too power hungry, loud and hot compared to newer cards. 460 se sli would be silly. those are somewhat butchered 460 gpus with only 288 cores. and 1gb of vram does not cut it anymore so 460 1gb sli would be limited in many cases just from the vram. find you a decent single card and dont limit yourself to just Evga B stock.

 

[Kaldorine]

no way would I buy a 480 at this point. its way too power hungry, loud and hot compared to newer cards. 460 se sli would be silly. those are somewhat butchered 460 gpus with only 288 cores. and 1gb of vram does not cut it anymore so 460 1gb sli would be limited in many cases just from the vram. find you a decent single card and dont limit yourself to just Evga B stock.

I have no true concern for the issues with the 480. But you didnt leave any recommendations for a card under 200$ comparable to a 480 or 460 SLI.

 

[Arkaign]

You can get decent 6950 2GB at around that price point. $199 AR

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150549

I used to have one, ran 1920x1200, it did great. I never even bothered overclocking it, and I hear they get to 6970 speeds pretty easily.

 

[Jaydip]

Look at this as well
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127616

 

[Arkaign]

Look at this as well
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127616

I like everything about that, though I wonder if for the same price and about the same performance the 2GB 6950 might be a slightly better bet?

Really hard to go wrong with either though. I know both the 6950 and 560ti have a bit of OC room in them.

When faced with that very dilemma last time I chose the 6950, this time around I went 670 FTW edition, honestly both cards are awesome.

 

[Jaydip]

Yeah both are great cards,so choosing any of them is fine.