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Should I upgrade my graphics?

Mike2007x86

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I decided to pickup this monitor tommarrow ASUS VW246H.

Now my question is, what video card will I need to run this monitor? I currently have a E-VGA GTX 260 216 896MB Superclocked which ran 90% of my games perfectly fine at 1680x1050. The only games I own that hiccuped and lagged like crazy were new vegas and crysis.

I normally set my nvidia control panel like this to give you an idea of how I run my 260.
Ambient occlusion (performance)
Anisotropic filtering (8x)
gamma correction (off)
Anti-aliasing mode (Override mode - enhanced w/ 16x CSAA)
Anti-aliasing transparency mode (multisampling)
power management mode (prefer maximium performance)
texture filtering (quality)
vertical sync (forced off)

Using the same settings with a 260 on my new monitor, could I still get great performance at 1920x1080? I'm jumping from 1680x1050 to 1920x1080.

I would like to get a good card thats not too expensive that will run all my games at 1920x1080. I play alot of games like cod series, need for speed series, witcher series, elder scrolls series, mass effect series, test drive series, rainbow six series, splinter cell series, and assassins creed series. Ingame I always turn AA down to 2x, because CSAA from nvidia control panel takes over.

I'm curious to see how the detail increases, because I can you this. When I look at these ingame screenshots taken on IGN my samsung 226bw never looked like that. I'm not sure if its 1680x1050 or what, but the screenshots IGN uploads never match up for me in a game. I always see alot less detail and wonder why.

I'm open to ATI or Nivida, but I prefer nvidia for there faster updated beta releases to guru3d

The specs on the bottom in my signature are accurate.
 
your best bet would be a radeon 6870. I have one and it runs everything I have tried on my 24" @ 1920x1080. CoD:BO or MW3 gets around 100+fps with maxed graphics settings. It runs BF3 great.

What psu do you have, age and model?
Here are some worth considering;

GIGABYTE GV-R687OC-1GD Radeon HD 6870 1GB $189.99 - $30mir + fs

Ultimately see how your 260 handles the new resolution and if its under performing I would say upgrade.
 
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