Opinion about a video card

256 may be better

Looks like the 560Ti might be a good bit more expensive than the 650

650 Ti comes with Assassin's Creed 3 for free. You could sell that for $40 probably to offset the difference in cost between that card and the non-Ti version you are considering.

$120 for 650 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125445

$160 for 650Ti http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125447

See for yourself. I could list out why it's better, but you can see for yourself in these benchmarks here. The difference is quite noticeable.

Ti is for people who want performance in their games for the extra price. Going from 560 to 660 is enough for Metro 2033 and SS3 on 1920 X 1200 at high fps. Extra CPU will not matter at this point and the graphics card is always bottlenecking the computer these days.

I'd say go for a 660 ti, I mean for a bit more you get a card that will last you over 3 years.

Here's one on sale, but with X-mas around the corner you'll find cheaper. . . The Msi 2 gig Pe is the beast on the market. . . but they all use the same core up to the 690, just the shaders are halved (or something)

yes, but you get what you pay for.

and that site is useless. it says a 560 ti is .3X more powerful then a 660 ti look. yet a 550 is less powerful then a 660 here

Not the same stats. HWcompare uses theoretical stats calculated based on hardware specs alone. Anandtech compares actual performance in a wide range of games at different resolutions.

i would say i agree but i have no idea what is happening in this thread. (i have no knowledge on these sorts of things) i pretty much just came in here to say that my graphics card probably isn't the best one out there

I think it was OCZ that tried selling barebones laptops that you could add whatever components you wanted to, but it failed miserably :(