re: My son wants this graphics card,does he really need it.

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Yep, this is where fanboyism comes from. Wrongness. I have the current "Flagship" NVIDIA cards and even I know they aren't the best bang for buck. Haven't even played through a physx-enabled game with them yet.

Nvidia does have a few other gimmicks, but they seem to be nearly exclusively in Ubisoft games right now... and well, lol.

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To be fair, my fanboyness came from a PC that had Crossfire AMD 5870s and an AMD Phenom X6 1090T processor. I had performance problems with the majority of games I played and every time I would update my drivers, I would get a BSOD unless I did a completely clean install.

your mileage my vary of course.

I upgraded to an Nvidia 580 and Intel Core i5 about 2 years ago. It's a little long in the tooth now, but it can still run almost any game at max settings. I've had performance issues in Dragon Age 2, BioShock Infinite and other games that run better on AMD hardware, but that list is a lot smaller than it was when I was on the other side of the fence, I can assure you.