Thoughts on a good NVIDIA Card that runs PCI Express 2.0

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  1. Valhalla

    Valhalla New Guy Viking

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    So I lost one of my SLI'ed 9800+ cards this morning so I feel the need to upgrade (only the GPU at this time). Just wondering what others were using for NVIDIA cards at the moment and their thoughts.
    Motherboard is a EVGA 790 which runs 2.0 PCI Express but not 3.0 unfortuantely.


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    Vargyr Well Liked Thrall

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    I've heard good things about the 560Ti's from EVGA. I have one of their 570's and it does alright. Runs cool, but occasionally artifacts/spikes on games. May be the clock or may be I've got a bad card. Either way, it's under warranty. :D

    Performance in Barbie Horse Adventures, specifically, is outstanding.
     
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    The 560 Ti is great! I've got one, and it runs fairly cool, and steady too. Crysis 2 runs beautifully on it. :D
     
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    I second the Evga 560. Outstanding card for the price.
     
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    The 560 or the 560Ti? The ti is more expensive, is the performance different that great?
     
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    Well the gtx 560 , 2gb superclock is pretty good. I have that one. The ti is a step up. Mostly because its clock speed is turned up. However, i can overclock my card to hit ti speeds. Either of them is solid. I prefer EVGA cards.
     
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    I buy nothing but EVGA as well
     
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    Gainward and MSI arent bad either
    and Asus has a few nice non reference designs too
     
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    I've got an Evga 560 ti 448 cores and it's amazing. With a bit of oc'ing I can run everything on high
     
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    Thanks everyone for the input.
     
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