Quote Originally Posted by darkm0d View Post
If you ever decide to up your budget by a bit, I do recommend the GTX 660 TI. They go for $299, and I recently jumped on one when they came out. Runs XIV fine at max settings at 1920x1080.

It comes with Borderlands 2 for free also, so if you also had that planned to buy, it'll save ya $60. Just a thought, it really is a fantastic card.

Also worth noting, a PCI E 3.0 card works fine on a 2.0 slot. The loss in framerate is at most like, 1 fps.
Now thats some valuable information, I didn't know they can work together like that. Just read some other sites to confirm, and they said pretty much the same thing, that there is barely any notice in a downgrade of performance for using 3.0 card on a 2.1 or 2.0 motherboard. Thanks ^^