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enis083

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I am looking to upgrade my 8800 GTS to either a 460, 560 or a 6870. This is for moderate gaming MW3, Starcraft 2, etc... I know that the CPU will be limiting my upgrade options so I don't want to overspend on the video card. I don't plan on upgrading the system for at least another year.

Current setup:
MSI P6N SLI Platinum
E6600 @ 2.4Ghz
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
6 gigs of RAM
Corsair 520W
Monitor 1920x1080

I've been looking at the following cards:
MSI N460GTX Hawk GeForce GTX 460 - $140 after rebates
Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB - $140 after rebates
MSI N560GTX GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB - $170 after rebates

Thanks!
 
I would not even bother with anything more than the cheapest gtx460. and even that card will be severally held back.
 
Of those three the GTX 560 and HD 6870 are tied at stock clocks (about the only difference is if a game is Nvidia or AMD friendly). Being the HD 6870 is the cheapest before rebates and tied for cheapest after that makes it pretty compelling. Great band-for-the-buck. I prefer the Nvidia Control Panel to CCC for fine tuning game settings so that's why I went with the GTX 560. It was worth a little more to me.

Given your CPU isn't OC'ed I'm guessing you probably won't OC your video card, so it really doesn't matter - go with the best deal.
 
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