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@ch3burashka: "mess with my budget a bit" basically means taking all the money I would spend on video games, and other entertainment purchases, this month, and most or all of next month. Take a bit out of my restaurant budget(instead slightly raise grocery budget). See fewer movies for a month or two, and no popcorn/soda. Also, take a bit out of my miscellaneous expense budget. Most of my other budgets are set in stone though.

Thanks for all of your inputs. It looks like everyone thinks I should go for the more powerful card, so that is what I will do.

@grtkbrandon:Thanks for linking to that. It looks like they have marginal difference at 1080p overall, but that The Witcher 3 works better on the 970. Also, I prefer the free game that comes with the 970. There is nothing wrong with Dirt Rally, I would just rather have Batman.

@colourful_hippie: I thought about that the first time it broke, but when I got it back it was acting weird. It would stay at the boot screen for about a minute or two, while only displaying on monitor two, then boot. Taking the graphics card out and using integrated graphic made the problem go away immediately. I just don't trust that it will be fixed well enough to sell it. I don't want to take the chance that it would break in a couple months. I might give it away to a friend.

@grtkbrandon: Thanks. Yes, I will be playing at 1080p, with a target of 60FPS. Someday I would like to do 1080p at 144Hz, but that is out of my budget at this time.

I have a Nvidia 660 ti. It broke in January, I moved in February, and then I finally got it fixed in March. It has now broken again. My repair request has been approved, but I can't decide if I should have it repaired or just get a new graphics card. The warranty lasts until September.

Here are my options.

1. Full upgrade to 970 or AMD equivalent. This is the absolute highest cost card I could afford to buy. I would have to mess with my budget a bit, but I could make it work. One of my concerns is about Directx12. Even though this card has support for Directx12, I suspect that it will only get the version .0 features that come out at the launch of Dx12, and not get many of the new features added later. The card was created before Dx12 has even been finished.

2. Partial upgrade to 960 or AMD equivalent. About $150 cheaper, but still a significant upgrade. It would also be much less of a blow to find out in a year or so that I need a new card to take full advantage of Dx12.

3. Wait it out. Have my graphics card repaired and hope that it lasts until new cards come out.

Getting a new card would probably be faster. This is significant because I am about 45 hours into the Witcher 3, and I want to get back to playing it soon.

I should also note that I won't need to upgrade anything else in my computer at this time. I have a core i5 3570k processor, which is just fine for at least a couple years. The 660 Ti is 150 watt card, while the 970s are 145 watt cards, so my PSU will be fine.

Am I worrying about the Dx12 stuff to much? From what I hear it sounds like a major upgrade, but that could just be Microsoft/Nvidia/AMD trying to generate hype.

I am unable to add Tengami, even though it came out on the 13th for WiiU, and back in February for iPad.

The metacritic score for Dragon Age 2 is 79. The metacritic score for Inquisition is 88.

I mention the length because the reviewers like the game. A lot of a good thing is a great thing.

@kakamoura: They appear to have gone back to what made origins great. Also, reviewers have said they took 80 hours to beat the game and they still have stuff they want to do.

I am very bad a building decks, so I am looking for a website/program where people post good decks. I would then enter all the cards I currently have, and it would match my cards with decks that I could build. I have not spent any money, so I have a very limited set of cards, so it is very difficult for me to find a deck that I can build that someone else has posted.

@hassun: I appear to be having the same problem. Although, I am also seeing a flashing popup in the chat section that says "connection lost reconnecting"

This little popup flashes on the screen about every five seconds, but stays on screen for less than a second.