I'm looking for a new gaming card I picked two.

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I've been looking to upgraded from a gtx 570 for some more power so far I'm not sure which card to go with. Right now I've been looking at two cards and can't decide which is the better one. I was thinking about the ZOTAC GTX 670 AMP Edition or a Radeon 7970. They are about the same in price. If you happen to know of better cards for around the same price feel free to mention it.
 
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670 is about the same performance for less, or if you can afford the 7970 isn't the 680 only a little more? Overall the 670 is considered the best value and all though, just not the zotac one, not the best brand
 
Whoa, the GTX 670 is better for less.Listen:670 is 5 percent worse than the 680.The 680 is 10 percent better than 7970.So, the 670 is better than a 7970.Also, get A evga GTX 670 FTW for like 2 percent worse than a 680, so 8 percent better than a 7970.Also, Zotac isnt terrible, but deffinatly go with another brand, as they are all almost the same price now anyways.Get the eVGA GTX 670 FTW.
 
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byteninja2 said:
Whoa, the GTX 670 is better for less.Listen:670 is 5 percent worse than the 680.The 680 is 10 percent better than 7970.So, the 670 is better than a 7970.Also, get A evga GTX 670 FTW for like 2 percent worse than a 680, so 8 percent better than a 7970.Also, Zotac isnt terrible, but deffinatly go with another brand, as they are all almost the same price now anyways.Get the eVGA GTX 670 FTW.
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EVGA gtx 670 does look good but the new ZOTAC amp edition has a higher OC but does cost a little extra. I'm not really sure which brand is better then others. but I did have a evga 570 in the past but it gave me a few problems with some games. but if the evga is the better brand then I'll go with it.
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125423

you can overclock that and save a bit but not the greatest brand, or this one is great all around and could prob be pushed higher too

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127685

these are slightly better than the 670's really, now that they're so cheap it might be worth it, but the msi 670 should be better with its overclock

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161399

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150596

of course there is a 7970GHZ edition that ties the 680 but they don't carry it yet

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130797
 
byteninja2 said:
Whoa, the GTX 670 is better for less.Listen:670 is 5 percent worse than the 680.The 680 is 10 percent better than 7970.So, the 670 is better than a 7970.Also, get A evga GTX 670 FTW for like 2 percent worse than a 680, so 8 percent better than a 7970.Also, Zotac isnt terrible, but deffinatly go with another brand, as they are all almost the same price now anyways.Get the eVGA GTX 670 FTW.
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The 7970 sometimes beats the 670 and the 670 sometimes beats the 7970, see here http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/508?vs=598 - I'd say they're about the same. I'd just pick up whichever card is cheaper.
 
jonnyp11 said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125423

you can overclock that and save a bit but not the greatest brand, or this one is great all around and could prob be pushed higher too

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127685

these are slightly better than the 670's really, now that they're so cheap it might be worth it, but the msi 670 should be better with its overclock

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161399

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150596

of course there is a 7970GHZ edition that ties the 680 but they don't carry it yet

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130797
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The gigabyte 670 is cheap and seems to have a great cooling system so I might just end up going with that one.
 
To the OP

What power supply do you have?
What CPU do you have?
What resolution gaming do you play at?
 
The 670 gets my vote. EVGA of course.

I, along with many other people, have had problems with ATi (or AMD) drivers in the past so I prefer to stay with nVidia as they can usually get more out of their hardware. ATi has usually always had superior hardware, its their software that they cant seem to figure out.
 
Guys, there is no point discussing GPUs unless you know that they can be effective.

The resolution, PSU and CPU make a massive impact on this.

Hey may be better buying a SSD with his/her money?
 
bigfellla said:
Guys, there is no point discussing GPUs unless you know that they can be effective.

The resolution, PSU and CPU make a massive impact on this.

Hey may be better buying a SSD with his/her money?
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The OP is upgrading from a 570.....I would imagine that his/her PSU and CPU are good enough. Since even the 680 draws less power than the 570, we know the PSU should be no issue if it can power the 570 fine.
 
G80FTW said:
The OP is upgrading from a 570.....I would imagine that his/her PSU and CPU are good enough. Since even the 680 draws less power than the 570, we know the PSU should be no issue if it can power the 570 fine.
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Nice circular argument. It will work because it worked... fail.

Its true though that the PSU and CPU may be up to scratch, but of course we don't know do we; so all im saying is there is a lot of other scenarios that one could 'imagine'. You don't "know" anything yet because the OP hasn't told us.

The point is, if the OP has a 1400x900 montitor, the difference between a 570 and a 680 will be undetectable. Also, if the OP has a 1100T, it may also be undetectable. Also if the person has a 450W nOObCASE brand PSU it may work now, but at anytime may fail catasrophically.

Get the facts, then make a call, instead of letting a new member spend $200 or $300 (if it goes bad) for no performance increase, caused by ill-informed advice.

Im not saying you're wrong G80, you may be totally correct, but you are guessing.
 
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bigfellla said:
Nice circular argument. It will work because it worked... fail.

Its true though that the PSU and CPU may be up to scratch, but of course we don't know do we; so all im saying is there is a lot of other scenarios that one could 'imagine'. You don't "know" anything yet because the OP hasn't told us.

The point is, if the OP has a 1400x900 montitor, the difference between a 570 and a 680 will be undetectable. Also, if the OP has a 1100T, it may also be undetectable. Also if the person has a 450W nOObCASE brand PSU it may work now, but at anytime may fail catasrophically.

Get the facts, then make a call, instead of letting a new member spend $200 or $300 (if it goes bad) for no performance increase, caused by ill-informed advice.

Im not saying you're wrong G80, you may be totally correct, but you are guessing.
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Your right, I dont know for a fact. Im just making an educated guess based off the post he made and we can connect the dots and assume that if he previously was using a 570 then his PSU will handle a 670 no problem though his CPU could still be questionable I guess.

And while I know its never good to assume, since we have nothing else to go on thats all we can do.

All we were doing was answering the original question of which video card to get.
 
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Theres no point getting a 680 over a 570 at a lower resolution, and without knowing any other data, how about we wait for the OP???
 
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