Graphics Card Upgrade

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so, I am planning on doing a bit of upgrading for my Rig, and was wondering:

Is a single EVGA GTX 550 a worthwhile upgrade from 2x GTX 260s?

If I did get the 550, I would remove one of the 260s from my rig, and plop it in our family desktop, and have one of the cards running dedicated PhysX.


If not, should I upgrade at all? Or what would be a better card? Please note, my rig is Nvidia based so no ATI please. Thanks.

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

[Rivas]

so, I am planning on doing a bit of upgrading for my Rig, and was wondering:

Is a single EVGA GTX 550 a worthwhile upgrade from 2x GTX 260s?

If I did get the 550, I would remove one of the 260s from my rig, and plop it in our family desktop, and have one of the cards running dedicated PhysX.
If not, should I upgrade at all? Or what would be a better card? Please note, my rig is Nvidia based so no ATI please. Thanks.

I believe it is,as shown here 550.

As you can see,the 550 is more than capable of delivering at least mainstream performance in all current titles.Also,you would get a huge benefit in some titles that intensively use PhysX (since you mentioned you want to keep a 260 for this purpose).You would also gain a lot in terms of heat and power consumption with such a configuration,rather than a SLI.

My advice would be to get at least one GTX 560 though.I got 2 of them for a couple of months now,and sincerely i don't believe i'll be needing to mess with the graphics subsystem for until...2013 ?

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[Jongleur]

I just upgraded from a 9800 GTX that crapped out on me to an MSI GTX560 Ti Twin Frozr II. Big difference as it's about 2 or 3 gens of vid card maturity. Cost was about $250 CAD so not too expensive. I figure it'll last me for a couple of years, especially if I get another and SLI them.

[ivr56]

No.
A Single 550 Ti is around a single GTX 260 but uses less power and has DX11. In my eyes you'd be wasting money.

Twin GTX 260 will still last you a long time. But the best viable upgrade I'd say are 4 options.
GTX 560, GTX 560 Ti, GTX 470 or GTX 570 are your best bets. You wont see much of a difference in performance other then DX11 if you go with the 550Ti.

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[Switchback]

No.
A Single 550 Ti is around a single GTX 260 but uses less power and has DX11. In my eyes you'd be wasting money.

Twin GTX 260 will still last you a long time. But the best viable upgrade I'd say are 4 options.
GTX 560, GTX 560 Ti, GTX 470 or GTX 570 are your best bets. You wont see much of a difference in performance other then DX11 if you go with the 550Ti.

I shoulda asked you on steam >.>

anyway thanks. I feel like a complete and utter noob for being lazy and not doing the research myself.

shame on the A+ certified technician for failing :L

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.