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[Valkyrie]

Hey guys Valk here.  Been a member here forever (pushing 50 now) and finally put together a real gaming rig. Just have 2 quick questions for you guys:

 

1) Wanna buy a new videocard.  What Nvidia card you think would go well with my system that has at least 4gb mem?  I'll be water cooling and overclocking it. Under $500 would be great!  Right now seems to be my bottleneck.

 

2) Looking at my numbers, is everything (mem freq etc.), where it should be for this CPU speed?

 

Specs:

AMD Phenom II x4 980  (3.7 default speed)  (4.4 overclocked) - Water cooled

8gb Corsair XMS3 2000mhz Memory - Air cooled w/ Thermalrite HR-07

Nvidia GTX560 (850/2004 default speed)  (960/2245 overclocked) Air cooled w/ Logisys Dracula cooler

Thermalrite heatpipe cooling towers on N. & S. Bridges + mosfets

Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Mobo

750 Ultra PSU

Black Ice Gen 2 Extreme 360 Radiator

MCP355 Pump w/ XSPC acrylic top

Black Nickel 450 Phobia acrylic reservoir

 

 

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[Thor.]

Here is a gtx770 under 500$, they are cheaper now sense the gtx780ti's have come out.

 

http://www.tigerdire...7553&CatId=7387

Edited by Thor., 08 December 2013 - 12:04 AM.

[Werne]

Like Thor said, you got the 770 under 500$ on the Nvidia side, and you have the R9 290 on the AMD side. If you intend to cool the card with liquid, I very much recommend the R9 290 (~450-500$), it's faster than the 770 and overclocks like crazy if you can cool it. It has heat issues with the stock heatsink though, but it won't have any with a water block on it.

 

By the way, I don't get the reasoning behind that big-ass SB heatsink on that board, that thing barely heats up on mine. I do understand why the VRM heatsink is replaced though, the stock one is crap.

[Valkyrie]

Great the 770 is just what I was thinking. I really wanna stick w/ Nvidia so I can eventually get another and run it in 3d.  Got a 27 inch Asus monitor coming from Santa