Worth upgrading to GTX 560?

[Nizmo]

I currently have the GTS 250 which is fine but it obviously isn't good enough to run the latest games, but that's not why I'm considering upgrading to GTX 560, the thing is I used to have a 20-inch monitor, but right now I have a 25-inch full HD monitor, and I render videos often, so I thought maybe upgrading the GPU may help things, I wish I could just build a whole new system, but I can't afford to get a new CPU, CPU cooler, RAM, and mobo right now which I would have to get because the components on my current rig won't work on a new chipset mobo.

I think GTX 560 is a good cost-effective GPU, but not sure if putting it into my current build will still give me a significant performance boost.

The other option is wait a little longer until I can do a whole new rig and get GTX 560Ti for it.

Does GTX 560 have any picture quality improvements over GTS 250 that I should know?

[David M]

Go to Tom's Hardware and you can get a sense of the performance differences by looking at the charts of the different benchmarks. The 560 is available with one or two gigs of video RAM, so take that into consideration as well. More video RAM is helpful when you have more pixels to drive.

Performance Charts Graphics Cards - Benchmark

[Nizmo]

Looks like GTX 560 Ti is not even worth the premium over GTX 560, I'll go ahead and get GTX 560 now since I can just carry it over when I build a whole new system.

It's too bad I can't even sell my current rig since it's like obsolete LGA 775 junk, the only component I can salvage probably is the GTS 250 which gets 7.0 on WEI Windows 7 64bit, that's impressive right. PSU I guess I could carry over too but I want a bigger wattage and I don't trust OCZ anymore because my OCZ RAM sucks, it won't even run on rated speeds of 1066mhz but only 800mhz. I'll just keep my current rig as a back-up or something.