video card upgrade help

[Gnarnok]

Did you end up going with that card or something else and have you been happy with what you got?

I've got the same processor as you, 8 gb ram and had been running dual 8500 GTX cards in SLI mode.

Appearently the cards and Starcraft 2 didn't get along well and it blew one card and damaged the other playing it. I'm guessing it was a heat issue but I'm not that savvy on hardware. Whatever those metal cylanders are on the vid cards 5 out of 5 blew up on one card and it dosn't work and 3 out of 5 blew up on the other one and I've decided SC2 isn't a good game to play until i get a new card.

I'd previously looked into upgrading vid cards and tried to GTX 295 but found it was too big to physically fit into my computer. There's a fan and sound card at the front of the PC that kept me from fitting a 11 inch long card in there securely. The GTX 460 has smaller physical dimensions and I think that should fit. I was just curious if you ended up going with the one Gnarnok mentioned and how it's been working out.

Did you cap your fps during load screens/menus? There was/is? a bug where SC2 didnt limit the frames automatically and it was causing this kind of same damage. You need to add a line to a config file manually to do this.

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