Advice for computer upgrade!

[335th_GRAthos]

If you want to buy this card then probably you should check the price of the new 7950 which replaces the 6950 and is already in the market and, check whether you can find in eBay and good 6950 for sale (as people with 6950s will probably be selling them in order to upgrade).

Your Processor Intel Core2 Duo E8400 is on the low side with only two cores, the game does use four cores. However, overclocked to 3690Mhz it sounds pretty good.

IF you can put a quad core for little money in your existing motherboard, it is worthwhile.
Otherwise you enter a big adventure changing motherboard, RAM, etc etc...


~S~

[tools4fools]

GRAthos,

you seem to have some good knowledge about graphic cards. I'm getting a new PC myself and am a bit confused when it comes to graphic requirements. From reading up here I'm down to a few cards:
Cheaper:
Gainward GTX-560 Ti Phantom 2GB GDDR5, PCI-E 2.0 x16, HDMI
more dosh:
Sapphire HD 7950 Dual Fan 3GB, PCI-E x16 3.0, DP, HDMI
even more:
ZOTAC GTX-580 3GB DDR5, PCI-E 2.0 x16

Question is:
Will the game be smooth on high settings on a 560 Ti or is one of the other cards required for this?
Is 580 much better than 7950, if yes in what way?

Rest of setup should be fine, SSD, i7, 16 GB ram, some Samsung 24" screen.

Thanks for any info.