£500 on upgrade

[Themanhunt]

My dad is giving me £500 to spend after my GCSE exams, and given the fact that my 560ti has coil whine that is getting worse...I figure I need a new GPU.

Here is my dilema. My mobo is PCI 2 not PCI 3.

Would it be wise to get a 680? Better options?

Im buying in 3-4 months, so hopefully the price of such things will go down and I can squeeze in a 128gb M4 as well?

So would a 680 be worth it? Alternatives?

[Avro]

PCI-E 3.0 only works with Ivy processors iirc.

[therealmrhead]

Hopefully someone can confirm this but I don't believe that a 7970 would be bottlenecked through gaming by PCI-E 2.0 and the price drop today makes them better value than the 680's.

Although if you are buying in a few months then the situation is going to be entirely different by then. The rest of the 6xx series will be out by then probably.

[Rhydian]

3-4 months is a long time for tech.

[GothicKiller]

Best thing to do, is come back in 4months and ask the same question!

By then we will have Ivy and hopefully the 670/660 etc.

That way you could also get a better understanding, not to mention prices will be lower!