Right GPU?

Hi,

I have been lurking around reading and trying to spec together my new build as recently my MPB decided to have a logic board death.

Im looking at building a machine with the following and my question is about the GPU.

I would like to hear some opionions and thoughts wether it is
A. the best card against others in its bracket
B. Will be good for some graphics work i.e. rendering and also lots of gaming.

Intel i7-3820
ASUS Sabertooth X79 Motherboard
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II Overclocked 1GB
G.Skill Ripjaws Z F3-17000CL11Q-16GBZL 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3
Corsair Force Series 3 120GB SSD
Antec High Current Pro Platinum 1000W Power Supply

MSI hawk 560ti instead of asus 560ti cu

http://www.guru3d.com/article/msi-gefor ... wk-review/

For the extra $40 would the MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II OC 2GB be the best option ?

hacman said:

MSI hawk 560ti instead of asus 560ti cu

http://www.guru3d.com/article/msi-gefor ... wk-review/

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The ASUS one works fine. Just depends on what you want/ need. 2GB is really only useful if running more than 1 monitor.

Are you planning to do work in After Effects, Maya, etc.....

I will be running dual monitors. Running after effects is 100% going to happen, Maya not so much.. but I will be doing a little work C4d

Then you can go for the 2GB

A 560 ti 448 core is not much more expensive and is essentially a sightly cut down 570. So you might want to look at one of those.