I was wondering what kind of graphics card would run starcraft II at extreme graphic settings at a full 60 FPS constantly even in situations where it lowers your FPS
Ex: warping buildings with protoss, corner of the map has water, unit controlling a protoss mothership, twilight fortress and other laggy maps.

My graphics card is a asus geforce gtx 560 oc. It used to run on extreme settings at 140 FPS now it went down to 70 SOMETHING (before I put the framerate cap on the .txt) personally I blame the starcraft software for this, my cpu is core i7 2600 and 10 gb ram.

I tried LOOKING for starcraft GPU benchmarks on other sites but I never got a direct answer.Not quite SURE I see the problem. You're wanting 60FPS, but you say you're getting 70FPS with your current card.

Only a few cards rate higher than the 560 in the ATI line (those being GTX 295, GTX 480, GTX 570, GTX 580, GTX 590). As for Nvidia, HD 4870 X2, 6970, HD 5970, and HD 6990 are the only ones that rate higher. In any case, I doubt with any of those that you'd see that much of an improvement over what you've already got. I'd look more at what caused the card you have to drop from 140FPS to 70FPS.

If you want to get much more out of one of those or your current one, you could try SLI or CrossfireX with a second identical card. I run dual ATI 5770s and have had no framerate problems on any game, including Starcraft II. They're rated slightly lower than what you currently have, but I'm getting awesome performance from every game I play.

(Source for card ratings) Tom's Hardware publishes a monthly graphics card hierarchy list that's good for reference. Actually results with different games and system setups will vary.if you want something just sufficient, then a gtx 260 would probably be good enough. the difference btwn 60 and 70 fps is unnoticable anyway. are you the type of person that is interested in the fastest you can get or just what is sufficient to handle starcraft?Just looking for answers that I couldn't FIND on the net. sites like anandtech didnt benchmark GPUs for starcraft II unless it was a laptop graphic card (lol)
Maybe I just have to reinstall starcraft II, I'm not sure. Maybe then itll shoot back up to 140FPS. But till then I don't really mind, I can still play it no prob.

I have a 5770 aswell, does your run 1080p videos well on a TV?Yeah, runs really well actually.

You might check what background PROCESSES you have running, see if anything unnecessary is using an excessive amount of memory, if anything is downloading a lot in the background (concern about hard drive use, not bandwidth).

In the Nvidia control panel, make sure the 3D settings are all set to use application settings. I've seen times when Nvidia is trying to force something and the game is set for something else causes a performance drop, particularly in FPS.