Building my first PC and would like some input

[Squilliam]

radiantshadow92 said:

Squilliam said:
I would second the HD 7950 or the 7870 but I personally suggest the former if you're going this high end. The reason is that the next generation consoles are heavily rumoured to be based on the same architecture as the AMD card and the consoles themselves are rumoured to have a LOT of memory which makes the extra 1GB RAM potentially quite useful.

this. 7950 all the way. its the best card for in that price range and it boosts like a boss

The current nVidia family is like the GTX 2xx family back when the Radeon 48xx was kicking up a storm. The Radeons are more forward looking and have better compute for games than the nVidia family so when the next generation games come out they will likely show a lead as more heavy DX11 features are used just as the GTX 2xx family were more forward looking back then even though the Radeons at the time looked like better picks.