Hey all, I'm looking to get a new graphics card today, and was wondering about a few things. I'm looking in the 200-300 price range and have found these: Nvidia 680 ~ 250$
Nvidia 770 ~ 300$
Radeon R9 280X ~ 300$
Radeon 7970 Ghz edition ~ 260$
Now to my questions:
1. What would you recommend? I have two monitors running 1920x1080 and usually play full screen on one of them. I would like to play the latest games today (BF4) at near max settings. I would like this card to last a couple years, probably running games in a couple years at mid settings.
2. The radeon ones have 3Gb memory vs 2Gb for the Nvidia ones, but in the performance charts they seem to be pretty evenly ranked. I read somewhere that the more memory was useful when running multiple screens or higher resolutions but I only found that in one place, whats the benefit?
3. Is there a brand of the cards to avoid i.e. evga vs asus vs powercooler etc...? Do these even make a difference?