I still have two 9800GTs lol. Anyway yeah i am probably going to stick with the 7970 as im comfortable and familiar with AMD unless ofc the 680 somehow dropped price haha. Anyway thanks for the reply colonel. I think mamba is getting his info from very old reviews and are useless as such, no offense mamba. I built the pc minus GPU recently and it starts up fine. Just to buy the gpu and then do some case tweaks