Video card advice:

I second that choice! Best pice of graphics card you can get for its price! With your system you could even play BF3 on hightest settings afaik! :)

agreed. Best piece for the best price nowadays. Can run almost all current games on ultra with no problems. 570 gtx is still too expensive in my opinion.

If you need to keep it within a smaller budget, the 550Ti GTX is also a great secondary choice since its so cheap nowadays. It may not be able to play most games on ultra, but it works like a charm for current games using high settings.

This seems to be the best bet between budget and power, it will max pretty much anything.

Don't buy this card. I buy it, and now i can't play BF3, search in google for "bf3 gtx 560 ti crash" and you'll see that is a huge problem.

Agree with this guy, mine is still working flawlessly, try a GTX560 Ti OC2 if ya want Cult ;D

good choice.
Do it double. SLI

yesss, I remember looking that up and it looked good. Couldn't find a price for it though, time to check again.

I seem to remember hearing that Radeons work better with AMD systems, Scorpius and all that.

I second that. 6870 is really good, for not so much.

I got the 6950, and it unlocks to the 6970 REALLY easily. It's a great value

Yep this. The 560ti 448 seems to be a fair bit cheaper then 570 and only around 5% slower then 570.

I second this. basically pick a budget that you're willing to spend then go with whatever they recommend. You can't go wrong on the price/peformance metric if you follow this.

maybe only for you i dont have any problems with my 6870

NVIDIA brings problems too, look at my post about 560ti. I thought that 560 ti the best price-performance ratio, but after buying this card I did disappointed.

I dont know why people are having problems with ati, I upgraded my ati graphic card from ati 3xxx to ati radeon 5770 and never had a single problem.

Went with different ATIs for 8 years now. Never had any problems.

I've had 2 HD4870s die within a week, numerous driver package issues (mostly with CCC rather than the drivers, but also with DXVA and older games having messed up colours)....

But I'd still buy an AMD card next time around.

You know what's funny? Our family have only had problems with Nvidia (even though we continued to use them for around 10 years...). I was the first to switch over to ATI (now AMD) in 2009 when I purchased the 5750, I've had no problems with the card (even through the brutal 20% OC I put it through for a year) and no problems with the drivers so far.
My brother was having problems with his Nvidia GTX 460 so he ended up buying a 6850 and loving it while my dad is suffering from blue screen's due to the Nvidia drivers on his laptop. Oh.. and my mum is having problems browsing the internet on Intel's HD3000 -.-

Agreed

I've been scouring baPC for weeks, I still can't quite see one advantage over the other. PhysX looks good though

6990 pwns the shit lol :d

never had problems with ATI, nVidia on other hand had alot of them.
"way more poweruful" is only when you compare budget radeon with high end gtx.

"I was just as shocked when I read it. It was reported Jen-Hsun Huang, or what authorities believe is Jen-Hsun Huang, was seen fleeing each house fire holding high a product of NVIDIA's new "Fermi" line of GPUs and laughing hysterically. He would then high-five a bunch of corporate suits and drive off in large, windowless van. I think the pic says it all, really." ~ from coolstorybro.com