Video card advice for my system

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#1 JohnD212
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I'm trying to decide if I should upgrade my video card or stick with what I have. I currently have the Palit GeForce GTX460 1GB Sonic Platinum Overclock edition. I'm considering upgrading to the Gigabyte GTX 560ti 1 GB Super Overclock card.

My system is: ALienware: Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU 9770 @ 3.20 GHZ Quad core with 4 GB of RAM running Windows 7. PSU = 750

Will I see a decent increase. The price isn't out of my budge to increase but I don't want to bother if it's not going to be worth it.

THanks in advance...I hate making hardware decisions.

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#2 C_Rule
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Does your motherboard support SLI?
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#3 JohnD212
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I have the Nvidia Nforce 790i Ultra SLI MB...but I'm probably not looking to do SLI.
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I have the Nvidia Nforce 790i Ultra SLI MB...but I'm probably not looking to do SLI. JohnD212
why?
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#5 JohnD212
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I only have a 750 PSU and I'm not in the budget to upgrade that as well. Would you think two of the Palit GTX 460? I think they take up two slots and Im' not even sure two would fit.

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#6 C_Rule
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Only 750W? You could run two 460s with like 600W.
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#7 gamerns
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Not a worthy upgrade IMO. I doubt you would even notice any difference.
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GTX 460 to GTX 560ti isnt much of an upgrade however if you bought another GTX 460 you would nearly double your fps with most games.
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#9 JohnD212
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Ok. I'm looking into the 460 sli. I haven't done SLI for many years because I had awful experience when it first came out with most games not working well with it but I can see the 560 wouldn't make much sense.

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#10 swehunt
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Ok. I'm looking into the 460 sli. I haven't done SLI for many years because I had awful experience when it first came out with most games not working well with it but I can see the 560 wouldn't make much sense.

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gtx460's in SLI will perform much better than a 560TI in fact is that it'll be as strong as any single gpu card you can buy, the only two cards that can beat it is the gtx590's and the HD6990's witch are already running SLI or Crossfire on the card itself. Getting another gtx460 will give you a very good upgrade for little money. SLI and Crossfire isn't like it was in the first day's, just about any more demanding game support SLI and CF and if a game don't support it a single gtx460 is probably enough to handle it perfectly fine anyway. Granted another gtx460 will give you a great boost I'm curious why you need it?, isn't the gtx460 flying thru all the games your playing? I play witcher 2 and the crysis games witch is just about as hard to run games comes, a single gtx460 is quite capable if you don't go nut's with AA up to a 1080p resolution, another gtx460 might give you more AA but im not confident you'll really see a big improovment. Sure I do OC my things like a mad little scientist and a gtx460 is a beast when it comes to OC, that is the first thing I do advice before you actually upgrade, just jack the card up to above 900Mhz core and check for the performance increase. :)