i want some help am going to upgrade my pc with new parts and motherboard but i want to get this video card EVGA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB GDDR5, DVI, DVI-D, HDMI, DisplayPort, 4-way SLI Ready Graphics Card Graphics Cards 02G-P4-2680-KR $460.59 Some of my friends saying its not good enough but most of them saying its powerful hope u guys can help with this cuz i want my games to work on max settings and smoothly and for more time . help please

amazon link http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-DisplayPort-Graphics-02G-P4-2680-KR/dp/B007KC1R3A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368124211&sr=8-1&keywords=nvidia+gtx+680

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that'll max everything for now, and for a few years ahead too, probably.

EDIT: are you going to build a complete new pc and need help on that too?

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actually i have desktop pc but its getting very old with old CPU old motherboard nvidia 8600GT so i want to add some parts and change others i mean i am trying to save money

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well, what is your budget?

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good :)

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Its not bad - but the upcoming 700 series will drop the cards price by a good amount

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It is plenty powerful(not exactly best bang for the buck), however, answer me these questions if you will. What's the rest of you build(list all specs including PSU), what's your monitor's max resolution?

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the parts that i want to get is :
Intel core i5-3570k
8GB ram
EVGA nvidia gtx 680 or other powerful one dont know yet
650watt power supply
MSI motherboard LGA Z77 ( my screen is benq let me check for the max resolution how can i find out on win xp ? )

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also, when changing motherboards it's required to buy a new copy of windows

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yeah i will change to Win 7 but do u think these parts that i want to get is powerful for max setting on games ?

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Should be, If you want to go with a little cheaper GPU (and don't care about physX) which is around the same in terms of power, maybe get the R7970 GHz edition (normal is fine too, you can always OC yourself).
I bought one recently, and I think it's a pretty decent GPU.

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That'll be a perfect match. I have a 3570k@4.4ghz, and a 670FTW which is pretty much a stock 680 and @ 1080p I shred thru games. Also, on XP right click the desktop go to Properties and then Screen Resolution. The reason I ask for screen resolution is, if you're getting a 680, but only playing at like 720p, it's overkill beyond words and not really utilizing what power you'd have with a 680.

Also, if I may put out a recommendation, look into the 670FTW instead. It peforms near/the same/sometimes better than a stock 680 for a reduced price

Benchmarks

Nvidia really stepped on their own toes by releasing a lower tier GPU that performs the same as the higher tier for a reduced price.

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I love these threads.

Anyone who answers without asking what resolution you're playing on, shouldn't be giving advice in the first place.

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I don't think a gtx 680 will have big problems if running even on 1440p

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You're right that there are only a few games that could make it drop under 60fps with everything maxed even at 1440p, but we're going two different directions. What if he only had a 1440x900 monitor? That'd be major overkill when he could get a new GPU and monitor rather than a GTX680.

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Considering that the ps4 will have 5gb of ddr5 (if recall correctly) then getting anything with less than 4 gb gddr is unwise if you want ro futureproof yourself for the next gen; prefrably 6 gb.
Also both next gen consoles will have amd gpu-s in them, so i would not be surprised, if amd was the optimal choice. I would wait as much as possible with the upgrade.
The resolution for the next gen will be 1080p. So even if dont have a 1080p monitor at the moment think 5 years ahead. Btw, 4k tv-s became available in the us for 1500 usd...
My pont is that even 680gtx is usless if it runs out of gddr and has use the hdd. And with all the newfound gddr available for the devs in under a year the will utilize it.

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they won't use all of that memory, im sure, well atleast at first.
also, isn't ps4's memory shared?

and, not many people have money to buy 1500 usd screen.

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There seems to be a lot wrong with this post. Firstly, I really doubt the ps4 will have 5gb of ddr5 considering the architecture is based on the 7700 AMDs. If you 'run out' of gddr, it doesn't use the hdd. That's just not going to happen. The 680 can easily produce 1080p output, and that'll be the norm for a while. 4k is just starting up and it'll take a while to grow, if it does at all.

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and even if you do need more memory for higher resolutions, why not to go with the R7970?

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I don't understand the question, care to rephrase it?

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Gamecube onward and the Xbox 360 all use AMD for their graphics and I haven't seen any evidence of your claims. The Xbox 360 came out 7 years ago while the Gamecube has been around for over 11 years, so you'd think that'd be enough time to notice things being more optimized for their GPUs.

Thanks for the chuckle though, your whole post was pretty good!

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Heyho! I build myself a pretty similar system half a year ago: got the i5-3570k with a slightly overclocked 670gtx. And yes, you can play everything in 1080p maxed out with constant 40+ fps. you should also get a small ssd to install the OS on. really nice how fast everything boots up and works etc.
EDIT: and i'd really not choose an AMD card over Nvidia. Nvidias PhysX effects are just fantastic. (in Batman AA or Borderlands 2)

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Food for thought - console developers will choose amd over nvidia, they have no choice. Ive got an nvidia card myself, but if upgraded now, I d go for amd because I am quite sure that games will be optimized better for them in the future.

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next-gen console port games will likely be optimized for AMD CPUs and GPUs. However, the computational power of the PS4's 8 core AMD APU at 1.6 GHz is only 1.84 teraflops. Which means the PS4's processor should have the same computational performance as a 4 core AMD FX-4100.

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Check your data people before mouthing off...
a) PS4 will have in fact 8 GB of GDDR5 shared
Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/392535/full-specs-ps4-dualshock-4-playstation-4-eye/
b) Games playing today at 1080p use usually upto 2 Gb with some going up to 3 /BF3 M/
Source: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=718118

I brought out 5 GB, because multiplatform games will depend on the weakest platform that will likely be xbox720.
I dont know why, or maybe it was an early rumor, but I recall that xbox720 has planned up to 3 GB for "non gaming" purposes leaving 5 gb of gddr for gaming. At the moment I am thinking thought that that calculation has to be with RAM allocation in mind already making 5 GB pure graphics memory...
Xbox720 Spec rumor:
http://www.vgleaks.com/durango-memory-system-overview/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20vgleaks%20(VGleaks)&utm_content=Google%20Reader

As for the qHD TV, it was marely a refrence to the fact qHD might be arriving sooner than we expect. With devs having all that GDDR at their disposal there will surely be game that support those resolutions meaning you will have use for your 3-6 GB GDDR. So if you are getting this pc to game for as long as the end of the next console generation 2 GB of GDDR makes no sense. 3-4 minimum, 6 ideally just to be on the safe side.

BTW: heavily modded skyrim from last year will bring a gtx680 to its knees without breaking sweat but in that case the available amount of GDDR is not the core problem.

Last but not least, the upcoming console generation will be x86 with pc parts inside basically. (AMD is releasing a similar architecture for PC in the not so distant future (announced, cant recall the date)

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PS4's 8 GB GDDR5 shared RAM provides more memory bandwidth than a 2 GB GDDR5 nVIDIA GeForce GTX 680. However, GDDR5 RAM provides twice as much memory bandwidth as DDR3 RAM. Therefore, if developers design multiplatform games based on the Xbox 720's 5 GB DDR3 RAM for gaming purposes, the PS4 would only make use of 2.5 GDDR5 RAM for gaming purposes.

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True, but for a pc gaming rig it still makes no sense to go for anything less than 3 GB. Thats the absolute minimum.
Considering ps4/pc games we will be needing more GDDR just to make sure they run.

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For under 800 USD you can build a new custom PC with an Intel Core i5-3470 and nVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/UO1S

the nVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 perfoms close to the nVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 but cost a lot less

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... that will last you about 1 year.

That just about sums it up:
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2013/05/14/killzone-shadow-fall-ps4-demo-used-3gb-ram-for-video/

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