buying graphic card help

I wanna buy a new graphic card. I asked what i should upgrade and most people think its only the graphics card i need to upgrade.

My motherboard can only run PCI Express 2.0 x16 so i can't use cards like the GTX 600 series. :?

Right now i have a Ati Redeon HD 4890 which is pretty outdated. :lol:
Core Clock = 950 MHz
Memory Clock = 1050 MHz
1 GB memory.

I wanna buy the best card my GBU can handle.
Next year i'm gonna buy the same card again and run SLI. :twisted:

I have 2 questions. :!:

NR. 1. What card will you recommend? I been looking at a GTX 580 with 1.5 GB Memory and a Radeon HD 5970 with 2 Gb memory.
NR. 2. Maybe a stupid question ;) but when i look at the numbers in my old card and the new cards there are not a huge difference. So will it make my computer run games any better?

Right now i can run most game on medium/high at 1920x1080 but i wanna run them at max setting and be a little prepared for the future :)

I have PCI-e 2.0 and I'm running a GTX 670 just fine, they are fully compatible with PCI-e 2, you're fine going with a 600 series Nvidia card.

By the way the 670 is a damn fine graphics card, it has literally performed almost flawlessly with every single game I've thrown at it. I give the suggestion for a 660ti a +1 as well, they're going to be a good bang for the buck.

7970.

Or 7950 if you want to save some money.

i think the most expansive card i can afford is a GTX 680 :-) Andi didn't know that. I thought that if you have a 2.0 x16 you couldn't run a 3.0 x16

I found the 7970 too noisy so I bought a 3fan cooler for it so I would include that in the cost consideration. Also installing the fan was stressfull for me some bits fell off it but it sounds and appears to be doing its job.

I have PCI-e 2.0 and I'm running a GTX 670 just fine, they are fully compatible with PCI-e 2, you're fine going with a 600 series Nvidia card.

By the way the 670 is a damn fine graphics card, it has literally performed almost flawlessly with every single game I've thrown at it. I give the suggestion for a 660ti a +1 as well, they're going to be a good bang for the buck.

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Same. 670 in a 2.0 slot.

And I agree, a 670 is a powerhouse. Especially my asus overclocked version, it runs very very cool and outperforms a stock 680