nvidia video card upgrade

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was up toms hardware

well i want to upgrade my video card and was wondering if i could get some help.

should i go with a gtx 780 6GB or with the gtx 980 4GB

i love to crank up the all the settings in the games that i play and i also run 3 monitors at 5670x1080 . i have my current gpu oc @ 1242 mhz but i get a little bit of tearing sometimes usually i would restart the game and it goes away. would getting a new card take care of this.

thanks for the help


my specs
cpu- i5 3570k @ 4.2ghz
gpu- gtx 660 sc @1242 mhz
motherboard- asus p8z77 v-lx
ram- 16gb corsair xms3 1333mhz
powersupply- corsair rm850
 
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You practically don't need to watercool the cards, they're very cool with the stock af coolers actually. Seeing you already have the rads, I'd still avoid EVGA right now, 900 series has kind of lost my trust, only 2 of the 3 heatpipes touch the chip on the card, I know liquid cooling would eliminate that issue, but I'd still go with MSI, its thinner and a better OCer.

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