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The 5770 and the 6770 are basically the same card, AMD rebranded the popular 5770 as the 6770, while decreasing power consumption. I have a 6770 that I'd sell you for no more than $50 US.
 

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DDR3 RAM and that 6+ years old motherboard and processor won't work together.
What's your budget for the motherboard and processor?

Crap, I didn't realize the motherboard you picked supported DDR3.
 

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DDR3 RAM and that 6+ years old motherboard and processor won't work together.
What's your budget for the motherboard and processor?
He'll be fine. The PC I built/bought/frankenstein'd together for my brother has an e8500 with DDR2 RAM, he plays Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3 and all the other good stuff without a problem.
 

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Don't go with AMD. nVidia is just as capable but its drivers are far more stable.
AMD drivers are, generally, stable. Buggier and less stable than Nvidias, but rarely in very specific cases does it actually create problems.
There seems to be some perpetuated myth that AMD cards are nightmares.
 

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AMD drivers are, generally, stable. Buggier and less stable than Nvidias, but rarely in very specific cases does it actually create problems.
There seems to be some perpetuated myth that AMD cards are nightmares.

I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they are not the GPUs of old, as I had an AMD (when it was ATI) back in 2000 or so and it was an absolute nightmare. They're a lot better, that I can admit. The older GPUs had horribly written drivers that would crash XP and 2000.
 

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I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they are not the GPUs of old, as I had an AMD (when it was ATI) back in 2000 or so and it was an absolute nightmare. They're a lot better, that I can admit. The older GPUs had horribly written drivers that would crash XP and 2000.
I have an old x700 and the drivers on that are still fine although I just updated to the latest legacy ones.
 

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It's still a fact that, per price point, AMD scores higher frame rates in games.
NVidia are still better at folding and rendering in graphics workstations, but if your only interest is gaming then go with AMD.

I'm just going to keep my comments to myself about this one.
 

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I'm just going to keep my comments to myself about this one. At least no one said that AMD CPUs performed better than Intel.
Because that would be asinine. Current AMD GPUs, such as the 7950, are better, price/performance, than their Nvidia counterparts. This s not fanboyism like what you're conveying, this is fact.
 

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