Deminos

So good news! I scratched off a lottery ticket and my budget is $450 now!

Think I might pick up the superclocked twin frozer 3 570 seems like a good deal

Thank you, i'll keep that in mind guys, I'm pretty sold on the 560 ti idea, just wondering how it will handle Bf3 Skyrim and any higher up titles. I mean I want to run stuff on ultra if I can but I can live with high too haha.

Edit: I found this on ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127608)newegg if anyone can offer some information. I couldn't really find a great review for this particular card, but its 2:30 Am almost so my google-fu is a bit weak.

I'm considering the 560 Ti, it looks to be a pretty good card. I'll probably wait till closer to Christmas and see if I could get my hands on a 570 though.

My budget is roughly $300(this includes card and PSU. I could maybe go for $350 but thats pushing it.

Really what I'm wondering most, is if I need 2gb of Vram. If I really don't then I'll just nab a 560 or 6870.

That helps quite a bit thanks, however it doesn't seem to have comparisons for newer games such as BF3,Skyrim, Withcer2 and anything else that is very hard on the Gpu, as well as my issue with going for more Vram or Nvidea. Thats more of a user experience kind of thing i'm looking for.

First of all my current build

Cpu:Amd phenom 2 x4 955- stock 3.2

memory: 8Gb DDR3 1333 dual channel

HD: 7,200rpm 500 gb

PSU:500W -will be getting 850 watt or something for future SLI or CF

Mobo- MSI 870A-G54. Not sure how good it really is but I plan on upgrading in the near future as well.

Current video card: HIS 5770 1gb DDR5 at 900 core clock and 1350 memory clock.

Good cooling in the case.

Alright now that is out of the way, I've been thinking about what to get, should i get a 6870 or a 6950? Go Nvidea and SLI when I get the new Mobo? Do I need 2gb of Vram or is 1gb fine? ( Some open world games can use up to 1gb vram which is why I'm not sure). I may use Eyefinity eventually but for the moment I'll either be on a 1400x900 for right now, or a 1950x1080 or higher soon(getting that new job and what not) I basically would like to play BF3 on highish settings if not ultra(unlikely though) as well as Skyrim on ultra 60fps. Anyways Thanks for the help, i'm going to keep browsing to see if any topics cover this already, thanks ahead of time and if it is covered I'll delete this. Cheers!

Well I now have 8 gigs of ddr3 1333 ram  (mushkin enhanced) I was thinking of grabbing a the AMD Phenom 2 X6 1090T, would it be worth it to get it seeing as a few games will be using it? 

Well my mobo only supports up to phenom 2 regardless, and the chip set isn't too bad, not like i'll be doing anything but gaming with a quad anyways. 

So I've been browsing New egg to find a good Phenom II X4 and discovered a 80 dollar quad with an L1 cache an L2 cache and an L3 cache at 2.8 GHz.. 
   I'm thinking that's an easy OC to at least 3. GHz if not 3.2, (no heat sink and fan included but i have that anyways) but I wouldn't really be able to go past maybe 3.4 ghz even if its hopefully stable up to 3.2, so is it worth it to get it over say a stock 3.2 GHz quad with an L2 cache and an l3 cache which will likely go up to 3.4 easier and even beyond that for 40 dollars+? 
 
Ex products.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103940 the 2.8 GHz quad  
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808 the 3.2 GHz quad (really can be any higher priced quad but just an example of the products I was seeing.) 

I can't unlock the cores on my Processor unfortunately, I mean some people are suggestign the quad while others are suggesting a new card and the processor is fine, not sure which side to take here.