Free Arkham City on Steam w/ purchase of NVIDIA GeForce GTX560 or higher

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http://www.geforce.com/landingpage/free-batman
You've geared up with an NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560 or higher graphics card. Now redeem your coupon code below for a free copy of Batman: Arkham City.

Enter your coupon code below and you'll receive a Steam code on the next page and delivered to the email address you enter below. You can complete the checkout process on Steam but the game will not be available to play until the official launch date of 18th October 2011.

Still need a coupon code? Go to participating etailers and buy an NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560 or higher graphics card.
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List of participating North American Retailers:
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[quote name='aznguyen316']http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162074

This is what people are getting in this thread. Galaxy 560 Ti. This will be a solid upgrade over your GTX 260, DX11, free Arkham City + Physx. $189 after rebate. Will run many games at max at 1080p if not med/highs. I myself have a GTX 570 just to make sure I can play skyrim and BF3 at 1080p on max settings without hiccups =)[/QUOTE]

Thanks, I'm not super interested in getting arkham city at this point and I would sell the code and plan on getting $50ish for my current card. The main reason I'm entertaining this is so I can play skyrim on max settings. I was a little disappointed that I had to do some configuring to run fable 3 smoothely.
 
[quote name='XClaude']While everyone seems to be talking about video card performance, thought I'd share mine for reference:

If you run anything higher than 1920x1200 resolution(typical 24" display resolution), you will want to look at GTX570 and higher models. The GTX560 Ti won't give you the high settings bells and whistles at higher resolutions.
I run a 30" at 2560x1600 on an EVGA GTX570 HD SuperClocked and it really tests the card's raw power.
Crysis 2 runs well on Ultra and DX 10, but does suffer hick ups during large fire fights or explosions. Switching on DX11 on Ultra setting makes the game mostly uncomfortable playing experience.

The GTX560 Ti is a great card, but it won't play nice with high resolutions above 24 inchers.

Just.... for reference... and don't mean to threadcrap, but the Radeon 6950 2GB is probably the current "best bang for your buck" card on the market right now. (2GB model for high resolution, 1GB model just fine for 24 incher and below)[/QUOTE]

Excellent post! Above 1900x1200 yeah this would not be the card for you. Anything under that yeah this is a great card. Also Physx was a factor in staying with Nvidia. Also the 6950 is around 70-80 dollars more where I looked(on Amazon there is a good deal on the dirt 3 edition that comes with Deus Ex). Still with the pricing and game added the galaxy edition of this card seems to be a great bang for buck deal especially if you're coming from a GTX260 for example.
 
[quote name='danh920']Thanks, I'm not super interested in getting arkham city at this point and I would sell the code and plan on getting $50ish for my current card. The main reason I'm entertaining this is so I can play skyrim on max settings. I was a little disappointed that I had to do some configuring to run fable 3 smoothely.[/QUOTE]

Yeah let's say you get $35 for Arkham City, that brings down the GPU to $159 then get another $50 off your current GPU that's not a bad price to upgrade and play Skyrim and high settings, maybe not FSAA but you'd be looking great I'm sure.
 
Since the game is GFWL is it an SSA or non ssa game? I will only buy SSA GFWL games since they have no GFWL activation limits but are account bound
 
[quote name='z3razerviper']Since the game is GFWL is it an SSA or non ssa game? I will only buy SSA GFWL games since they have no GFWL activation limits but are account bound[/QUOTE]

According to Microsoft, there are no longer any activation limits in GFWL games unless the developers decide to put them in.

Seriously, SSA is absolutely horrible. Being okay with it is like telling developers that you actually WANT a crippling experience.
 
I love these deals. Means I can usually get a steam game near release at a hefty discount from people who just want to save $30 or some on a video card and sell the code.
 
[quote name='wongjp']I ordered my 570 card a day before this promotion started. FFFFUUUUUU :p[/QUOTE]

Try dropping them an email, couldn't hurt.

Side question, do 560's come with the capability for physx? I already own one, but never knew it had that capability. However I saw a physx trailer for Arkham City that seemed to imply that it does.
 
I believe NVIDIA has offered PhysX compatibility since at least the 8800 line of cards, since my 8800GT is now a dedicated PhysX processor. I purchased a Zotac GTX560Ti and it does PhysX also. You can also offload PhysX processing to your CPU.
 
[quote name='Vap']A few pc gaming newb questions. Would getting a great graphics card be enough to play higher end games on decent settings or would I have to buy a few other things along with it (i have 500gb,4gb memory and i believe a 1.8 gz) or would I be better off jusZt buying a whole new pc?[/QUOTE]

It's best to check the system requirements for a given game to find out if your system holds up. The 1.8 Ghz processor would likely be your weakest point, though there are many processor types (is it Core Duo? i5?) that matter too.

The hard drive doesn't matter really as long as you have enough space. 4gb ram is enough, though more is always good and not too expensive.

The graphics card is by far the most important part for games, and getting a good one does wonders.

Note: you MIGHT need a better power supply if you get a beefy graphics card, but it depends.
 
[quote name='V4oLDbOY']I love these deals. Means I can usually get a steam game near release at a hefty discount from people who just want to save $30 or some on a video card and sell the code.[/QUOTE]

Yup! That is how I got the last Batman game! I love it.
 
I'm loving the 560ti, and yes I just saved $33 selling my batman code

I'm crossing my fingers that I will run skyrim as max settings
 
I considered selling my Batman code but I was hesitant of selling it on ebay, so I just kept it. On top of that I've only sold 2 items on ebay, so I didn't really know how to go about posting an ad for it. Oh well, after seeing the awesome reviews for the console version I can't wait to play it.
 
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