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Hello,

Well I've been running my system for about 2 years now slowly upgrading as time goes on. I'm currently running 2 120hz monitors and I've been happy with the performance of my system so far. I noticed recently that I took a huge fps hit when I tried playing Farcry 3 on max settings with all the filters on. My question is should I upgrade my video card or will OC my cpu will be enough? If I need a new video card what would you suggest?

Here are my current specs:

Case: NZXT Phantom Full Tower (White)

Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth P67 TUF

Processor: Intel i7 2600k

CPU Fan: Zalman CNPS9900MAX-B

Ram: 16GB Corsair Vengance 1600

GPU: Gigabyte GTX 470 OC

Power Supply: NZXT HALE 850

Storage: 1TB WD Black

              256GB ADATA XPG SX900

 

 

Thanks

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CPU is fine but looking around and the year it came out I would to say a new GPU will becuase my 6870 has trouble. I can not recommened any GPU becuase I do not know how much you can spend tell me how much you can spend and then I can tell you.Also if you do not have money for another GPU just turn down your setting alittle bit.

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Well cost isn't really an issue for me but I think 300ish is a fair limit.

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Do have a personal fav. like AMD or NVIDIA.

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Also is it just games or do you edit anything and what is you Resolution you play at.

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Fan of Nvidia due to dual boot with Ubuntu and I do use Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc. I have 2 monitors running 1920x1080 @120hz

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get a 7970, and sell ur 470

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well, the adobe stuff makes a diff then. get the 680ftw from evga then. still sell the 470

 

 

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Ok thanks. What do you think is a fair price for the 470?

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the diff between ur budget and the price fo the 680

 

 

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For AMD since photoshop works faster with AMD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202007 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161429

For NVIDIA http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121656

But it is up to you what you want.

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Really? I thought adobe like the CUDA of Nvidia?

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yeah, it does. not sure why he's reccemending an amd card for adobe. adobe doesn't have open cl on their products....

get the 680 or 670 from evga

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Oh sorry if you have the newest photoshop CS 6 it has opencl. So if you have CS6 and only use photoshop then use AMD but you have a later version of photoshop then use NVIDIA. Adobe is slowly make all the CS programs opencl. So sorry for the confusion.

 

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Ah ok well thanks for the suggestions.

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Hope I helped if any at all peace.