Geek RPG

[LeftEyeNine]

Having been employed recently, you start thinking about the following rig of yours:

Gigabyte EX58-UD3R (rev 1.0)
Intel Core i7 920 @2.66 GHz
Kingston HyperX 3*2 GB DDR3 RAM
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Various HDD (no SSD)
OCZ StealthXtreme 700W PSU

You will obtain your very first wage in about 2 weeks and you reckon your gaming performance to be bottlenecked at the video card although it's still a powerful one. Under these circumstances you:

A) would go for a second 5XXX ATI and go CrossFire (and a PSU if necessary)
B) would sell the current VGA and purchase a top notch single ATI
C) would sell the current VGA and purchase a top notch single Nvidia
D) would sell the current VGA and purchase two high end calibre Nvidia cards instead of the one at the top and go SLI (and a PSU if necessary)
E) would hit the gym 'cause you know those love handles have been bugging you for quite some time now.
F) Gah!

[Lemur]

That's a pretty up-to-date machine, so I'd go with option E.

[TinCow]

C

I'm an Nvidia fanboy, but not so much of a fanboy that I would vote D. Modern cards are so powerful, and modern games so under-utilizing the resources, that going SLI with modern cards seems like a waste of money. Spend the extra cash on something else.

[LeftEyeNine]

That's a pretty up-to-date machine, so I'd go with option E.

Shogun 2 maxed on DX11 displeases me, sire. ):

C

I'm an Nvidia fanboy, but not so much of a fanboy that I would vote D. Modern cards are so powerful, and modern games so under-utilizing the resources, that going SLI with modern cards seems like a waste of money. Spend the extra cash on something else.

Physx being more popular with developers rather than Havoc is another pro for being an Nvidia fanboy. I'm using my 9500GT simultaneously just for making use of the Physx ability.

I see the benchmarks sing praises of GTX 580 ?

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

nvm misread the OP

[Tellos Athenaios]

G) Buy an SSD because Windows is a dog.

Alternatively, treat yourself to something better than breathing in the faint smell of hot electronics with dust and take the lady out on a nice dinner.

[LeftEyeNine]

G) Buy an SSD because Windows is a dog.

Alternatively, treat yourself to something better than breathing in the faint smell of hot electronics with dust and take the lady out on a nice dinner.

What I thought of as well yet it feels just too expensive for the moment.

Alternatively, my ladybug is far from here and has a hard time breaking free of her family. |: