Absolute best price

[{CLR} Cobalt]

Ok boys and girls. I'm gonna need a new vid card for BF3. Poor old GTX 275 that Dukey Duke sold me is just about done with what it can do with the newer games. Been a good card, but she's old and tired. Kinda like Apache. But we can talk about that later.

So where is the absolute best price on an Nvidia 570. I know there are a lot of guys that have got good deals, but I haven bought a vid card in so long, I figured you guys could help me out. I've looked at all the usual suspects like newegg and the like but I thought there might be some obscure out of the way site that I havent heard about that might have good prices.

ps: I offered Phan $50 bucks for his old 480 but havent heard back from him. I know, I know, it's a bit too much but Phan is my friend and I thought I'd help him out a bit on the price.

[K PhaNTOM]

You can have my 480 for $200 bucks. I bought it for way, way, way more. It's really really hot. I reached 93C on BF3 Alpha.

[Apache Warrior]

Kinda like Apache. But we can talk about that later.

You are older than I.
Apache

[TheSilentAssassin]

You can have my 480 for $200 bucks. I bought it for way, way, way more. It's really really hot. I reached 93C on BF3 Alpha.

93C !?!?!? How did your card not melt?

Colbalt I got my 570 on Amazon for 299.99 free two day shipping $40 rebate included.

[Brian is Huh?!{CLR}]

i know its not a 570 but
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB GDDR5 PCIe 2.0 and NVIDIA Just Cause 2 & Mafia 2 Game Coupon and NVIDIA Dungeon Siege-III FREE Game Promo Bundle at TigerDirect.com
its only $99

[Duke{CLR}]

Here is an EVGA superclocked version that will have a limited lifetime warranty. $299.00 after MIR, Free shipping also.

Newegg.com - EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

I don't know if you are going to get much below the $300.00 mark theses days.

[{CLR} Cobalt]

You can have my 480 for $200 bucks. I bought it for way, way, way more. It's really really hot. I reached 93C on BF3 Alpha.

93c..man that just dropped the price to $40.. and thats a stretch right there.

You ever thought about puttin a cooler on it. They make em you know.

[Duke{CLR}]

That is a normal temp for a 480 according to EVGA and I Phantom keeps it under his name that you can use his warranty if a problem arises. The key to using those cards is to adjust a fan profile which makes them loud.

[{CLR} Cobalt]

Phan, what kind of fps do you get in BF3. At what resolution.

[K PhaNTOM]

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
19832, 348791, 32, 104, 56.859

At 1080p auto.

Very smooth game. I don't wanna sell it now

[TheSilentAssassin]

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
19832, 348791, 32, 104, 56.859

At 1080p auto.

Very smooth game. I don't wanna sell it now

WOW! Those are really good frame rates for the 480. Wonder what dual 570s would get in Alpha

[TheSilentAssassin]

Here is an EVGA superclocked version that will have a limited lifetime warranty. $299.00 after MIR, Free shipping also.

Newegg.com - EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

I don't know if you are going to get much below the $300.00 mark theses days.

And you really cant beat 2 day free shipping with amazon

[Qicmee]

Comments from peanut gallery:

EVGA is one of those rare video card manufacturers who usually get top-ratings on Newegg. That's worth a a little extra.

If $300 is okay, then you're on the right track. Otherwise, the cheaper, slower 560Ti is pretty good for $210 (with rebate).

Newegg.com - EVGA 01G-P3-1561-AR GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

[Cain]

Cobalt, I just ordered this one:

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Supercloc...1709790&sr=8-1

[{CLR} Cobalt]

I checked out the reviews and I dont know if it was just sour grapes or what, but there were quite a few that had problems with EVGA 570's. Dont want to rain on anyone's parade but they mentioned something about that card (the 570) having problems with manufacturing or something like that. Maybe just a bad batch. Cant say. I'm gonna do some more research on it.

I read some of the reviews of other brands but they all seemed favorable. But overall I think that there are more EVGA's sold than the others so margin for bad cards increases. I'll wait and see what I can find out.