Best Grafix card?

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Mar 25, 2004
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Hi guys. Decided I need to purchase a new graphics card on a budget :(

I want to pay upto £150.00 gbp and was hoping someone here could advise on the best unit to get for the money.

My system atm is Mobo - A8N32-SLi Deluxe with an AMD Athlon 64X2 4400 2,4Ghz processor. It has 4Gb ram and I currently have an NVidia GeForce 9800GT card. The board supports SLi so I guess its NVidia only? Was looking at GTX560 PCI-E which range from £105 to about £160.00 (using www.scan.co.uk as a reference point) Also want to change PSU unit to something more suitable. I am liking the look of this case too (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/akas...tower-with-mesh-side-window-w-o-psu-promotion)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated :)
 
Just general pc use and some moderate gaming! Ie UT, MW3 etc

Have just purchased these items:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/akas...tower-with-mesh-side-window-w-o-psu-promotion

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-...u-900mhz-shader-1800mhz-384-cores-dvi-i-mhdmi

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/550w...ular-80-eff-uncertified-quiet-fan-atx-v23-psu

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/29-4...hz-5-gt-s-dmi-650mhz-gpu-6mb-smart-cache-34x- with this mobo http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus...ta-raid-pcie-30-(x16)-dvi-d-hdmi-d-sub-(vga)-

Gonna go for 8 or 16gb ram and a 120Gb SSD http://www.scan.co.uk/products/120g...b-s-read-550mb-s-write-510mb-s-83000-iops-max

Is there anything else I should consider for similar price that has been overlooked or is better spec?

Sorry for all the links, just gives you all the info I have and what I am looking for. Is i7 worthy of the extra £££'s?
Now just trying to decide best processor and mono combination! Looking at i5