Looking to upgrade

Hello - I currently have a GTX 260 slightly ocd and I'm looking at the 560 Ti as an upgrade. I play racing sims like Need For Speed Shift (modded) at 4x aa - 1920x1200 and the SimBin series at 16x aa - 1920x1200. NFSS has far better graphics and I get 30-60 fps depending on location on the tracks. I have all in game settings set to max minus shadows to medium. So I'm wondering if upgrading to a 560 Ti would be worth it. Would I notice a difference? Would it look better?

My PC specs:

Win 7 Pro 32bit
GTX 260 slightly ocd
ASUS P5N-E
Intel E6850 ocd to 3.5GHz
4GB Kingston HyperX PC2-6400

A GTX 560 will probably double your FPS you currently are getting and it's real easy to overclock it to 1ghz. Also getting a 6950 and unlocking it will probably get you much better bang for buck performance. My card unlocked and I overclocked it so now I'm getting performance of a GTX 580 at only the price of $260 with rebate. They are really cheap now and I'd suggest taking that route. Either which way you go it will definitely be worth the upgrade.

Thanks BT

BigTerminator said:

A GTX 560 will probably double your FPS you currently are getting and it's real easy to overclock it to 1ghz. Also getting a 6950 and unlocking it will probably get you much better bang for buck performance. My card unlocked and I overclocked it so now I'm getting performance of a GTX 580 at only the price of $260 with rebate. They are really cheap now and I'd suggest taking that route. Either which way you go it will definitely be worth the upgrade.

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Won't double it, but will be a good upgrade anyway. I just went from an overclocked GTX 260 216sp (675/1458/1215) to an overclocked GTX 570 (800/1600/1000) running 1920x1200, and even that wasn't a 2x increase where I was GPU bottlenecked. Probably a good 70% though, I'd guess going from a 260 to a 560 would be close to 50% faster, depending on resolution and settings a bit.