Which video card - confused...

[tools4fools]

Hello everybody,

I'm getting soon a new computer and it should do CoD fine as I'm looking forward to do a bit of flying again (apart from Photo editing).

CPU, motherboard, RAM should be fine (i7 2600, 2 x 8 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD) but the big question is the video card.

I was reading up a bit on the issue here but many topics are about a year old and not sure about what video card to get.

First I think 2GB cards are better, best 3GB, as game uses up to 2.4GB as was mentioned somewhere.

Then is there any brand to be avoided or are all of them OK?

I'm starting with some choices of cards:
Gainward GTX-560 Ti Phantom 2GB GDDR5, PCI-E 2.0 x16, HDMI
Club 3D GTX-560 Ti CoolStream 2GB GDDR5, PCI-E 2.0 x16
EVGA GTX-560 Ti 2GB DDR5, PCI-E 2.0 x16

Would there be any difference between those or are they basically the same?
How would they handle the game, over London, playable all the time or would there be problems?Next step up priceswise would be:
HIS HD 6950 IceQ X Turbo, 2GB GDDR5, PCI-E 2.1 x16, HDMI
Sapphire HD 6970 2GB, PCI-E x16 2.0, DP, HDMI
MSI HD 6970 Lightning 2GB, PCI-E x16 2.0, DP, HDMI
All still 2 GB cards but a good bit more expensive than above cards - would those do make a real difference to above?

Then I got:
Sapphire HD 7950 3GB, PCI-E x16 3.0, DP, HDMI
Club 3D HD 7950 3GB, PCI-E x16 3.0, DP, HDMI
The cheapest two 3GB cardsI can get. Again would those make a big difference as compared to the other two sets of 2GB?

Last batch is:
Sapphire HD 7970 3GB, PCI-E x16 3.0, DP, HDMI
XFX HD 7970 Black Edition 3GB, PCI-E x16 3.0, DP, HDMI
Gigabyte HD 7950 OC 3GB, PCI-E x16 3.0, DP, HDMI
ZOTAC GTX-580 AMP2! 3GB DDR5
ZOTAC GTX-580 3GB DDR5, PCI-E 2.0 x16
Those cost quite a bit more $$$then the 3GB cards mentioned above. Worth the money or not?

So overall how playable is the game on those 2GB cards, is it worth to take one of the more expensive 2GB cards over the cheaper ones?

Plus are those 3GB really worth getting over the 2GB ones? Among the 3GB ones would the cheaper set do about as well as the more expensive set?

Thanks for any input!
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