Which card should I get?

Published on September 15, 2012 By Anthony R In Personal Computing

Which card would give the best bang for the buck? Are any of these cards bad in terms of performance when it comes to excessive heat or noise? Which would be best for the price. Anything better in this range? I was leaning towards the GTX480 which should be able to handle anything I throw at it for a good price.

1). EVGA GeForce GTX480 1536MB $199.99
2.) EVGA GeForce GTX570 1280MB $259.99
3.) EVGA GeForce GTX660 2048MB $229.99

Comments (Page 2)

Anthony R

on Sep 17, 2012

Thanks everyone. I wonder about reviews at new egg and Amazon cause they seem to be increasingly incorrect and biased. Its also hard to decide when it comes to performance issues that can't be determined from looking at benchmarks, such as heat, noise, etc. Its really crazy, but I'm really starting to think about totally swapping out my rig completely. I know its scorched earth, but I'm starting to think the processor is getting outdated as well as the mobo. The 570 looks like a great card. I'm not sure if I need that much GPU. but It would be good to get one that can hold up for some years before going obsolete.

BOTA99

on Sep 17, 2012

Wizard1956

reply 13

Quoting kryo, reply 11I've been looking at possibly tossing the 480 for a 660 myself.

How good is your arm? Toss it towards Illinois, I'll try to catch it. My 8800GT died so my machine is sorely missing a decent card and that would do quite nicely for a replacement. The 8800GT was my only source of heat in my computer room.

Don't worry, cause the 8800's are coming back again in a new launch. Well, this time they will be ATI

Info just leaked today.

Anthony R

on Sep 18, 2012

This looks like a pretty wicked motherboard, anyone have it?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131821

Made the link work -Admin.

Jafo

on Sep 18, 2012

Anthony R

reply 18

This looks like a pretty wicked motherboard, anyone have it?

Looks like you'd need to wear combat pants and change your logon sound to "Semper Fi, Mo-Fo"....

Bit corny...alll the 'military' references....just make it seem typically over-budget-and-ruined-by-committee....

That aside.... ASUS makes good stuff...my MoBo is ASUS ...a few years old...ASUS P6T-se X58 i7 as is my new Graphic ... ASUS GTX590 3GB.

...so is my monitor...come to think of it...ASUS MW221u 22" LCD ....

Anthony R

on Sep 19, 2012

Asus has some real nice stuff... there's a bunch of more traditional boards without all the stealth technology dust covers. I'm tired of my lousy Foxconn mobo with limited Ram. I think I might start building a new rig.

Tattyhat

on Sep 19, 2012

ATI/AMD HD7870. Low power consumption, kick bottom and the graphics are sharp as a knife.

TheChronicToast

on Sep 19, 2012

That board has been getting poor reviews if you don't clean it out every 2-3 weeks as dust gets trapped behind the covers. Unfortunately what this means is that your board retains excess heat. I would honestly take a look at an MSI motherboard as they have been getting great reviews this past year and a half for the 2nd and 3rd gen i-series processors.

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