Choosing the next card for a dual monitor, videos capture/editing/gaming PC

[Rei Ayastrasz]

Hi, I'm here to ask for some opinions on my next card upgrade. I am currently using an older radeon 7770 as a temporary card since my good card died. I run dual monitors in 1080 at 60 fps and play games like: Dota, LOL, WOW, EVE. All of which are not too extreme on the graphical side of things however it's important to me to be able to play these with ultra settings and without any FPS fluctuations.

Seccondly I need the card to be able to handle me playing with screen capture running for production and editing videos. So the card has two jobs to handle. Dual monitors with 1080/60 at ultra and screen capture at those settings. And second job to edit and render video which can then later be used for my channel.

So far I am more keen on trying the Nvidia shadowplay as I haven't used it before ad it sounds promising.

The cards I have so far got my eye on are GTX 960 (EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB)

or GTX 970 ( EVGA GeForce GTX 970 FTW+ ACX 2.0+ 4GB)

I am currently on a budget and the 970 is slightly outside of the budget zone which is why I'm looking at the 960. But if the 960 doesn't cut the cheese then I will sit back and save up for a while longer and get what is needed.

Perhaps a different card all together? What's your thoughts?

 

[Sandstorm3000]

The 960 will do exactly what you want it to.

I also play LoL and WoW, and i max out LoL at 60fps(capped), and i am able to play WoW with mixed settings ranging from Low to High (60fps) on a GTX285. While running dual monitors.

Im 100% sure the 960 will do what you want it to. Im sure the 960 will deliver enough performance, but what CPU currently have? You probably already have more than 4GB of RAM, in which case that is okay.

 

[Rei Ayastrasz]

Thank you for the input :3

Anyone else got any other opinions?

 

[Rei Ayastrasz]

The machine is a generation 1 I7 currently clocked at 3.9 ghz, I can squeeze out a little more out of it with enough tinkering( got it stable at 4.2 before when it was a little more fresh).

It's got 12 gigs of dominator platinum triple channel ram running at around 1400~.

Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R

It also has 5 64 gig SSDs running in raid 0. A half terabyte 10,000 rpm Velociraptor and a 2 terabyte 7200 storage drive.

PSU is a CoolerMaster THUNDER 600W (Budget piece of crap!)

 

[Rei Ayastrasz]

One last bump to see if anyone has anything to add to this discussion before I go off and buy the: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB