Valkyrie Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 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 $500 would be great! Right now seems to be my bottleneck. 2) Looking at my numbers, is everything (mem freq etc.), where it should be for this CPU speed? Specs: AMD Phenom II x4 980 (3.7 default speed) (4.4 overclocked) - Water cooled 8gb Corsair XMS3 2000mhz Memory - Air cooled w/ Thermalrite HR-07 Nvidia GTX560 (850/2004 default speed) (960/2245 overclocked) Air cooled w/ Logisys Dracula cooler Thermalrite heatpipe cooling towers on N. & S. Bridges + mosfets Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Mobo 750 Ultra PSU Black Ice Gen 2 Extreme 360 Radiator MCP355 Pump w/ XSPC acrylic top Black Nickel 450 Phobia acrylic reservoir http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t381/Valk69/IMAG0321_zps75b61fa5.jpg http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t381/Valk69/IMAG0334_zps28f4ae34.jpg http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t381/Valk69/IMAG0331_zps30af6b98.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) Here is a gtx770 under 500$, they are cheaper now sense the gtx780ti's have come out. http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8277553&CatId=7387 Edited December 8, 2013 by Thor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werne Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 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 :kiss: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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