Graphics Card Opinions

[Avantel]

I need some help on picking a GPU for a new PC I'm working on building. This is my first PC, so I don't have a bunch of info on what is the best, although I have tried to do as much research on my own as possible. This is the one I have picked out currently, but I'm wondering if there are better options for close to the same price (or if this one is not very good to begin with): http://www.microcenter.com/product/403002/GeForce_GTX_660_Twin_Frozr_III_Overclocked_2048MB_GDDR5_PCIe_30_x16_Video_Card

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Castdeath97]

Why not pick a r9 270, same price most likely faster.

[Atmos]

it really depends on how close to that you can get. 

 

For an almost apples to apples, this is a far better card,

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100373l

 

If you can splurg a bit more, then this is a little better than that (Pretty much completely ingore this one, the 280X is way faster and only $4 more atm)

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr9285wf2oc2gd

 

And if you can just pay that 40$ more, then this is a far superior card to the other 3

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r9280xtdfd

[Avantel]

it really depends on how close to that you can get. 

 

For an almost apples to apples, this is a far better card,

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100373l

 

If you can splurg a bit more, then this is a little better than that (Pretty much completely ingore this one, the 280X is way faster and only $4 more atm)

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr9285wf2oc2gd

 

And if you can just pay that 40$ more, then this is a far superior card to the other 3

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r9280xtdfd

The second one does some pretty nice for the price (and the same manufacturer as the MB I have picked out. I probably should have mentioned it in the first post, but currently I'm going for is an i3 core processor, so would that second one still be compatible?

[Atmos]

if you can get the 2nd one, i'd really really advise getting the third instead. its $4 more and like, 10% faster, along with more vram for a longer theoretical life-span.

 

But, to your question, Yes. Any modern consumer graphics card is compatible with any modern consumer cpu.