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Looking for the right upgrade

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Mike2007x86

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I own a GTX 260 216 896MB
I'm fixing to buy a GTX 560 Ti to upgrade my system.

How much improvement will I get with this upgrade?
I play games like splinter cell series, rainbow six series, ghost recon series, cod series, dragon age series, mass effect series, and the fallout series. I picked up fallout new vegas thru steam, only to discover that my gtx 260 216 is incapable of running this game. It stutters all of the time no matter what options I set it at and none of the fixes work for me. Whether its forcing vsync off, d3d9d.dll anti-stutter file, new vegas stutter remover, or ini changes. Nothing gets rid of the stutter.

So I want to know what card can run this game and all future games at 1680x1050 resolution on a Samsung 226BW monitor?
I can go Nvidia or ATI, but I prefer nvidia since they always release beta updates that you can try that fixes most gaming issues. When I last had ATI they had a horrible driver update interval, but I'm not sure how it is now.

When I told someone that I was jumping from a 260 to a 560Ti, they told me thats a downgrade.
 
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For 1680x1050 a 560 ti should be quite fine. It will max most of the current games and soon to come games at medium to high settings. It's no where near a downgrade, but a huge upgrade and can later SLI if you are not too happy with the performance in future games. I suggest a 570 as they are a bit more future proof and will max most games at max settings.
 
you do know it only takes a few seconds to google gtx560 Ti reviews? the person that told you it was a downgrade is clueless. a gtx560 Ti is about 60-70% faster so it is a decent upgrade. at 1680x1050, the gtx560 Ti will tear through games so you will be set. your cpu will not give you 100% of what a gtx560 Ti can do at that res but its close enough not to worry about. I would not fool with anything faster that a gtx560 Ti at 1680x1050.


EDIT: and my gtx260 stuttered a bit in New Vegas too. I could never go more than 100 feet or so without some type of hitch. it plays much better on this pc even with just just an 8600gt. in fact not one single in game crash on this new pc either after 7 hours of playing New Vegas. it was a crashfest on my E8500/gtx260 pc.
 
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Mike2007x86 said:
This is the exact problem my GTX 260 216 has.
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well its either the gtx260 or the Core 2 platform that causes it. I assumed it was just a game issue but after having played on other comps now I know its not. I guess if you get the gtx560 ti and it still does it then it looks like a Core 2 platform issue.
 
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