Hi, Upgrading my Computer And need some help with compatability

[Multibocks]

Why are you not a fan of the 6XX series? The 680 is one if the best options for a boxer right now, if not the best.

Oh and get the new Plextor SSD, its pretty damn fast and the 256 only set me back $270

[MiRai]

Why are you not a fan of the 6XX series? The 680 is one if the best options for a boxer right now, if not the best.

A lot of the enthusiast crowd is speculating that nVidia screwed its customers with the 6xx series. It is believed that the 680s were really supposed to be the 660s and that nVidia cut a lot of corners this time (low memory bandwidth, low ROPs, and a very minor increase in performance over the 5xx series despite a brand new architecture with a smaller, faster, and more efficient chip). Whether it was to make money or whether it was due to them not being prepared with the new 28nm chips is unknown and will most likely never be known.

nVidia also recently locked down voltage overclocking via both software and hardware, which technically made the MSI Lightning and the EVGA Classified not really worth their premium price. Both of these cards were re-designed with a custom PCB to allow for extreme overclocking at the premium price you pay for them, but now you can't do that.

However, I'm not here to derail this thread nor debate what I've said in the above paragraphs. If anyone has something argumentative to say on the matter, this is not the thread to discuss it. No one has to "buy in" to what I've said about the situation and I honestly don't care if you do or not. If anyone does want more information, there have been numerous megathreads about it on numerous hardware enthusiast forums (e.g. Anandtech).