My budget allows me to get a GPU for at the very most $310. Here is my setup right now i have everything except the GPU, so I'm not planning to change anything else.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/S7jA
I'm looking at Radeon 7950s. I have a $20 Newegg gift card if the price is a little bit over $310. Thanks in advanced.
Id find a 660 ti for about $300, personally
Well asus is triple slot and quite, the Sapphire and HIS ICEQx2 cards will be pretty quiet with stock clocks and/or a light OC
if you really want the best grap a cheap reference 7950 and get this http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186064
+1 from BeyondNight, I have the cooler myself and back it up 100%.
You could always get and install a 3rd party GPU cooler like I do for my 6870, I use the Arctic Accelero Extreme 7970 and even at full load I don't even touch 50 C (20 C colder)and on idle it is under 37 C(10 C colder) for me. And it's not even built for mine specically(though it's compatible with cards all the way from the 5xxx to the not yet released 8xxx series card(as stated on their site)), so I would imagine that a 79xx series card, which it's built for. You would get alot better results, maybe another 10 C colder from what I've heard some people get because they get to use all the heat sinks for it, etc. The fans are so silent, I have to have my face next to them to hear it. They retail though for about $80, but worth every penny for over clocking and keeping you GPU silent. It will keep your GPU lasting longer, it will be a lot quieter, and it future proof for next series cards!
I really don't know how to put it on for i haven't heard of it untill now. Does it have coil whine?
is the ICE Q x2 in my price range of no more than $310 so i can get it for under $300 with my gift card?
It's not to bad to put one, it may take a while though. It is completely silent. I do not know what coild whine is, but it's cold and silent.
A cooler can thave coil whien, thats the VRM on the video card itself, but id get the cheapest non votage locked 7950 i could find, then in a month or whatever save up and get the accelero extreme 3
I think i may just get the Sapphire 7950 its well under my price
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202026
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$170 with code and rebate for the gtx660... thats pretty much a steal man
Since you said you have a $20 Newegg gift card, it wouldn't be a bad idea to use it to get two EVGA GTX 650 Ti BOOSTs for two-way SLI. The price for two of them is $340, but since you have that gift card it'd be down to $320, and that extra $10 would be well spent. I've seen some benchmarks for those cards in SLI, and the results are ridiculous. In several tests the benchmarks showed them beating a 7970 and a 680. For only $340, what?????
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130909