Thread: I need a new video card

For under $200, I'd recommend the Radeon HD 5770.. it's the newest and best for that price range I think.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...0%20-%20%24200

and here's a professional review:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...0-review-test/

Be sure to look at the benchmarks comparing other video cards, and look at all of your options before making a sure decision.

Good luck.

If you want to future proof, I think ATI is the only company right now that has DX11 capable cards. Nvidia is still a few months out from revealing their next gen GFX cards, so if you like ATI and have the money, that's the way to go. I'm not sure what price point the newer ATI cards are at, but I've always found with the market that if you stay in the $140 - $160 price point you'll do pretty good. Anything less and you're paying for a product that is at least 6 month old technology. Anything more and you'll be getting the newest stuff, but at a higher price point. You can't go wrong with anything in that price range, at this point it just depends on if you have a card vendor preference, like XFX, BFG or Visontek or what not. The cards in that price range should all be using GDDR2 or GDDR3 at this point and have the latest Shader Models, which is 5.0 or 6.0 I think. Get something that's close to 1 GB of VRAM and a core clock that is over 600 MHz...

I prefer Nvidia, so I'm looking at this card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133266

ATI makes a great graphics card, but I've never had any luck with their damn drivers. I f-ing hate their damn drivers...

Originally Posted by 1shot1death(87)

Originally Posted by DaKillerFox

I prefer Nvidia, so I'm looking at this card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133266

ATI makes a great graphics card, but I've never had any luck with their damn drivers. I f-ing hate their damn drivers...

This is not the way to go, the GTS 250 is the G92 chip (from the 8800's series) manufactured down to a 55nm process on the chip with more ram. It is the same amout of streaming processors as the 8800gtx, those came out 2 years ago i believe. My friend as one and gets about the same if not less fps than me. im running an 8800gt ( i have a better processor than him). Right now ATI is the way to go, or could wait like me for the new Nvidia series to come out so ATI lowers their prices. (im hoping this summer). But if you have to buy now, the 5770 is the best choice. I will post some links for performace differences in bit

I agree, ATI does have the best hardware out right now and for that price point, would be better to go with ATI, but like I said, I hate the damn ATI drivers. I have not had luck with the 3 different ATI graphics cards I've purchased in the past, so if you can wait, which is what I will do, for the next generation of Nvidia cards to come out later this year, that is advised. In the mean time, my current card is 3 years old, so any upgrade for me is an upgrade period.

Amato, so long as you are going to replace it. Make sure it has 1GB of VideoRAM and at least be GraphicsDDR3. The GDDR3 {which means graphics DDR3} type of memory is a lot faster than DDR2 or GDDR2. I know, I've used them. So long as you meet that criteria, then either ATI or Nvidia would be a definite improvement and serve you well. I had someone hook me up with a BFG Nvidia GTS250 with 512 MB of GDDR3 memory and it's really nice and plays PR very well. It only sells for around $130 or less, depending on where you get it from. I'm not complaining at all, it's a nice card and a definite improvement over my BFG 6800GT OC 256MB GDDR3 {which was over heating}.