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Wow....660TI is excessive? I wish I could say I was so easily satisfied! I'm running an overclocked 5770 (which is faster than my brother's and girlfriend's 550TIs) and I'm desperate for an upgrade to a 7850. I don't see much point to anything faster than an overclocked 7850 (I know eyefinity....but I tried dual screens for Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance and I couldn't get used to dual screening). I also need to get a quad core processor, Deus Ex Human Revolution lags thanks to my "puny" Phenom II 555 @ 3.8ghz.

No offense to you but I can't stand the 660TI. I feel like Nvidia is ripping people off by selling a X60 card with a 128 bit bus width (550TI is 192, 5770 is 128 but it's older and not supposed to be as fast as a 650TI, the 670 has DOUBLE the bus width...like why the huge performance gap?)

Nooooooo.... the 660ti is a huge, huge increase in CUDA cores and performance, over double that of your card. $300 is a bit high of a price, but I did some clever shopping and got it for under $260.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/538?vs=647 <<-- observe!

I also have another 7750 in the "fleet"... if I can get another decent video card to replace it in my boy's machine, I can crossfire the two 7750's for myself.

For that matter, if your board supports it, a second 5770 to crossfire would be CHEAP, like only $50-70.

Crossfiring introduces new headaches and microstuttering though. Err I guess the 660ti has a 192 bit bus actually...dunno how I got the 128....must not be thinking tonight but either way I recall reading some reviews that said the 660TI fell flat on it's face (because of it's less than stellar bus width) compared to similar radeons when high amounts of AA are being used (and who buys a $300 graphics card and doesn't want lots of AA?) I know I can't stand playing games without at least 2x AA @ 1080P....and I'd ideally like 8x or better. The 7850 even not overclocked has 7% higher memory bandwidth, uses 20 watts less, and has a 25% higher pixel rate. The 7850 suffers in texel rate but I have NEVER had a graphics card I couldn't crank up the AF on so I feel like that's a moot point.

I guess I'm not thinking as straight on the whole nvidia 6xx series as I thought. I mean it wasn't too long ago when a GTX 460 1gb was $150 (which has a 256 bit bus and is pretty close to the 660TI in everything but texels where it's only 1/3rd as fast and I still see a x60 series card as being kinda middle end and when I bought my 6800GT years back that was a HIGH end card and it cost me $310...and everyone else was buying 6600GTs.

Click that link... the 660ti is very definitely a killer card, deserving of the $300 price range.

...and I remember those 6600/6800 days. Heck... I remember the first 3DFX voodoo1 and voodoo2 add-on cards!

ahhhhh.... nostalgia.

I feel like I've been living under a rock...I mean I've literally read every graphics card review on HardOCP and TomsHardware in the last 4 years but I never realized nvidia had turned their middle end into a comparatively high end card (even though the specs say it's still not that fast) while AMD has been more or less making lower performing more energy efficient cards.

Talking to my other (and better) half just makes my day

Reading a good book

I am surfing the net.

Built a good-looking, speedy computer to play with out of profits and play money - a big glass of Tang - french fries in the toaster oven... It's a good day!

A nice long sleep-in tomorrow will really round things off nicely.

I got some new clothes when I was shopping today. My favorite was a tennis dress. I have always wanted one, tho I don't play tennis. 40 SPF and I look hot in it!

How did I know you'd say that?

My dad made a wonderful breakfast this morning for our family.

This video inspired me today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... 2KFRo&NR=1

It's snowing!! ! The snow looks gorgeous cascading down in the glow of the street lights.

Of course, snow on the ground is a complete pain in the arse after the first couple of hours, but it looks so beautiful when it is falling.

^ Where's that?

Good video I got today