Help with my video card options.

I play at 1680 x 1050, a place near me has video cards on clearance, I don't game heavily (no Metro, Crysis etc) but I will be looking to play X-Rebirth.

HD 7850 for $110

HIS HD 7870 GHz Ed. IceQ for $147

Gigabyte GTX 660 Ti OC - $160

I have been looking for a budget card ($150ish) to upgrade from a GTX 460 1GB. Any of these suffice but I'd like others opinions. GTX 660 Ti Is a bit off budget but it is a good deal. It has a windforce fan as well.

There was just a 7950 on sale for 180 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=tWhjljk9EeONm25hYlMwagaLh9_ajnk3_0_0_0&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16814161420&cm_sp=). It would have been less with that 10% coupon.They been dipping around that price range. I am sure the deal will be back soon

By when do you want to upgrade?

@daious:

Soon because the clearance is also on sale. I also live in Canada so there is a bit of cost difference (not huge).

Those are some awesome deals. It's a tough choice between the 7870 GHz and 660 Ti. They trade blows in benchmarks, with the 660 Ti winning in more popular games, but you said that you won't be playing those anyway..

Honestly, I would recommend getting both. Then sell the 660 Ti on eBay, since it's worth almost $300, and then you'll be getting the 7870 GHz essentially for free. The 7870 is far better at GPU compute anyway, and AMD's Mantle API will improve the performance in the near future for games that support it...

considering your resolution and that you dont game heavily the $110 7850 you posted seems perfect ( it will max every game out there at that resolution ).

Follow up: I actually just went and bought the HD 7870. I guess they were repaired RMAd cards (hence why cheap) and the 660 Ti had a host of issues (they told me them), although it was repaired I placed my bet on the 7870 as the HD 7870 just had a faulty fan that was fixed, works great so far. I was upgrading from a GTX 460 that had been long time faithful but I kept getting odd glitches I felt it was time to move on.

On a side note, goddamn it's a large card.