New graphics card

[Death]

I've recently been thinking of upgrading from my GTX 560 TI in sli to a GTX 670 (specifically this one [ame]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008LTJR06/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER[/ame] since its 4 gb but with rebate is the same price as a 2 gb). And possibly thinking of getting one of those new fancy 1440p monitors at some point. Recently I've gotten more into recording videos and in less demanding games it isn't too bad, but in more demanding games, like BF3 and Metro 2033, it lags a bit. And when editing it kind of lags my computer (but that's probably just RAM). Also having it run on 2 monitors could giving it hard time. At some point I also might be using 3-d engineering software (SolidEdge, Inventor, etc) and I'm not too sure if my current cards would do well with those programs.

However I wasn't sure if I even should upgrade yet or get a different card or wait till the 700 series or 8000 series, so any suggestions would be great.


My current rig is:
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600k @4.4 ghz
Mobo:ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3
Memory: G. Skill 8 gb 1866
PSU: Lepa 900w
GPU: 2x MSI GTX 560 TI Twin Frozr II
OS: Win 7

 

[Lava]

I would wait a little bit longer for the 8k series to come out unless you want to go ahead with the little sale they are having. More ram should definitely help you out in terms of video editing. And as always 1 great card is better than 2 good cards .

 

[Frank Booth]

Well, you should have gotten Corsair ram to start with. I would pit 4 gigs of Corsair against your 8 gigs G Skill ram.

But back to the video card. I would say wait, I run a 6670 with one gig ddr5 and play BF3 rather well. That's on a old Quadcore 8600 or something like that. I don't think anything would make use of the 4 gigs at this point. Wait for the new cards. By the time the new cards come out this one will be a lot cheaper or the new cards will be a lot better. It's not even 384 bit, I see some new ones running the 28 nm cores using the 384 bits. Also, display port and thunderbolt implementation will be better, for that super HD monitor.

 

[zetas]

Protip: Don't wait for the 8000 series from AMD. Only 2 of them are new, and they are more suitable for office computers. The rest are 7000 series cards with a new name and updated drivers.
Only the mobile brands are using new tech.

With that said, I think you'd be better off with a 680/7970 once AMD or nvidia releases their new series of cards, since the old models will most likely be on sale or reduced price.

 

[Death]

So waiting seems the best option, but is there any brands that would recommend over others? I know ASUS, EVGA, MSI and Gigabyte are highly rated but not sure which is more worth it.

 

[Cloakedsphere]

Your best choices are MSI and ASUS.

 

[Snipeye]

I prefer EVGA over MSI, but Asus is at or near parity with EVGA. Gigabyte is an unknown outlier card, but still more favorable to me over MSI because of brand loyalty (Hey, I at least recognize it). So MSI<=Gigabyte<=Asus<=EVGA but EVGA > Asus => Gigabyte => MSI...

..... So who likes math?

 

[Cloakedsphere]

What ever you do - Stay away from Zotac. Zotac is good at Micro mobo's and smaller GPU's. NOT higher up graphics cards. Just because they are cheap, doesnt make them better. Trust me. The same day the local frys built their Zotac machine and let us play with it the cards crapped out and fried their chips the same day. Stay. Away. From. Zotac.

 

[fetterEsel]

I prefer EVGA over MSI, but Asus is at or near parity with EVGA. Gigabyte is an unknown outlier card, but still more favorable to me over MSI because of brand loyalty (Hey, I at least recognize it). So MSI<=Gigabyte<=Asus<=EVGA but EVGA > Asus => Gigabyte => MSI...

..... So who likes math?

I hate math... haha. But I agree with your brand listing in that order. EVGA is THE best for NVIDIA cards and back in the old days, they were too. Asus is alright, I had crap luck with Asus... So I stay away from them. Gigabyte is excellent but they have BIOS issues and driver issues on other products. MSI I have had the best luck with, and I do some pretty extreme overclocks, and MSI has seem to hold up the best for me. I have all MSI products in my rig, and I have reached higher overclocks than most people right now and stable, run 24/7 on most overclock. I would wait for the GTX 700 series honestly. The GTX 770 is gonna run on the GK614 graphics processor, which is about 6 times faster than the GK604 in the GTX 600 series. And it will have more CUDA cores. Just my 2 cents.:thumbup: