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endersshadow
 Post subject: Video Card Reccomendation
PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:24 am 
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I am looking to replace a Asus 4850 with a better card. something reasonably priced(best bang for the buck). I am leaning towards Nvidia because I have had overheating problems with this card as of late (even after cleaning it out, new thermal paste etc) but if ATI has the better card for what I am looking for, thats fine too.

I play on a Samsung Widescreen LCD

My OS is a Vista 64bit

Gaming is the only thing I use the card for. Single player RPGs like Fallout 3, Two worlds 2 etc.

Thanks for the help.
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Spartacus
 Post subject: Re: Video Card Reccomendation
PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:29 pm 
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What's the resolution of the monitor?
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endersshadow
 Post subject: Re: Video Card Reccomendation
PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:18 pm 
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1680X1050
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 Post subject: Re: Video Card Reccomendation
PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:08 pm 
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Also post up your budget :)
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endersshadow
 Post subject: Re: Video Card Reccomendation
PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:51 pm 
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250 or less

At the moment, for ATI I am looking at the 5870 - 6950

Nvidia 470-560
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n0b0dykn0ws
 Post subject: Re: Video Card Reccomendation
PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 1:09 pm 
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At $250 and 1680x1050 it's kind of up in the air.

Although if you want to use the card for video encoding and other high performance tasks I would say the 560 Ti is your best bet.

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endersshadow
 Post subject: Re: Video Card Reccomendation
PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:02 pm 
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For the price I ended up going with a MSI 460 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814127519
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arkarkwin
 Post subject: Re: Video Card Reccomendation
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:56 am 
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For a little bit over 250, I went with AMD 6950. Its $275 but I got $20 rebate on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-DL-DVI-I ... 805&sr=8-1

I was gonna go with Nvidia 560Ti but after seeing how you can turn the card to 6970 with a simple bios flash, I know I had to got with AMD. You can't beat a $250 (with Rebate) card turning itself into $350.
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 Post subject: Re: Video Card Reccomendation
PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:14 am 
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since you havent posted a reply here to say if you have done anything yet, just a suggestion?

http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=01G-P3-1563-AR&family=GeForce%20500%20Series%20Family&sw=

beast of a card, great price and full warranty from manufacturer


259 delivered is pretty nice for this range of a card
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endersshadow
 Post subject: Re: Video Card Reccomendation
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:17 am 
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Yeah actually I did say I got the Nvidia 460

When it came down to it, I didnt want to spend more than 160. I would of loved to spent more but we will be moving soon so trying to save money.
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