GTX 460 to 660 Ti (an upgrade worth the price?)
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Weeman360
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1080p always
The Joker
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It'll be a massive step up, no doubt.
Weeman360
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Cool thanks
The Joker
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Contemplating 660ti sli for myself or at least one
Well worth it, They strong card...the 192bit bus worries me for future titles...but I reckon the card has enough raw speed to run fine.
If it was my money and I was making the choice I would buy a 7950 or a GTX670..They'll be more future proof than the 660ti as far as I am concerned. People seem to forget when looking at benchmarks, we are mostly looking at BF3..but we forget that BF3 is almost a year old...Titles like Crysis 3, Far cry 3, Hitman absolution are launching in the not to distant future and these games will bring some more juice sucking power.
Necuno
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True. To sli or just go 670. Apparently ATI is better for AA ?
The Joker
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Look sli will give you a moerse performance increase, but I would go for a 670 and if you require more juice in the future, you could always just add another 670.
The current range of cards from Nvidia and AMD are so close its pretty much gonna be upto what you want to run or brand preference.
The AMD with the bigger bus will be more future proof as we see more and more 2560x1600 monitors becoming available at decent prices. Also yes AMD seem to handle AA much better than the Nvidia cards at the moment, The nvidia cards take a huge knock in performance once AA is introduced.
Honestly its to close to call..and this sums it up nicely:
Edit: Sorry for the complete derail here xD
I just want to add, I run the fastest and the best cards available today, and in all honesty you don't have to spend huge sums of $$ to get damn good peformance. Any decent mid range card can handle any of the "pc killers" to date. A GTX560ti Runs BF 3 on high without any issues, its only when you start turning up the eye candy that you need serious power and in all honesty the amount of eye candy you get vs the amount of money you spend to get said eye candy isn't worth it. Its fine if you're coming from an odler gen card like a GTX460 or a 5850 ect. But upgrading from a GTX580 to a GTX670 is not worth the extra cash, the gains may be noticable but it won't change you're gaming experience all that much.
I know I shouldn't be ssaying this because I may be blowing off potential customers, but think hard and long before you upgrade or drop me a pm.
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simon
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Nice speech
I just want to add, what is the point in buying two cards right off the bat and having to worry about scaling issues instead of just buying a top end card. Then sli'ng or x firing them in 2 years when they can be picked up for half or a 3rd of the price and that then lasts another 3 years before having to get rid of 2 lesser cards quicker and having that huge amount of money lost on buying 2 cards in the first place.
Necuno
The Piper
Nice speech
I just want to add, what is the point in buying two cards right off the bat and having to worry about scaling issues instead of just buying a top end card. Then sli'ng or x firing them in 2 years when they can be picked up for half or a 3rd of the price and that then lasts another 3 years before having to get rid of 2 lesser cards quicker and having that huge amount of money lost on buying 2 cards in the first place.
Agreed and that bandwidth is worrying.
The Joker
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Nice speech
I just want to add, what is the point in buying two cards right off the bat and having to worry about scaling issues instead of just buying a top end card. Then sli'ng or x firing them in 2 years when they can be picked up for half or a 3rd of the price and that then lasts another 3 years before having to get rid of 2 lesser cards quicker and having that huge amount of money lost on buying 2 cards in the first place.
Well yeah that's why I said its better to go for a GTX670 or 7950/7970
Thank you love when my speeches actually mean something xD lol
Nope would be a fantastic upgrade in you're case, when the 6870 launched it was incredible value for money, but unfortunately its now also showing its age. If you were running say a 6970 or GTX570 I would say no don't upgrade. But in you're case I would recommend the upgrade.
simon
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Well in a race I think it may win pretty fast :wtf:
I haven't heard of it so I wouldn't know, usually I would go according to the price of it to measure its quality, but The Joker will be best suited to answer the question
Necuno
The Piper
I'd rather pay a little more a pop and go 670, much better option in the long run. Funny that my 260gtx has a better Memory Interface(?) (448 bit) than the 6 series.
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but not this one *erm*
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