The Elders' House of Pain
Public Forum => Pc Help/Tweak Page => Topic started by: Baltika (#9) on June 25, 2010, 01:21:39 PM
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I've currently got a evga nvidia 8600 GT w/ 1G DDR2
my system board can handle 2 nvidia PCIe cards in SLI
I'm looking for a decent bump w/o spending much more than $200
Single great card?
Two decent cards in SLI?
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I've heard good things about some of the higher end ATI cards recently, but I'm an nVidia person, so I wouldn't be able to help specifically. :P
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I've heard good things about some of the higher end ATI cards recently, but I'm an nVidia person, so I wouldn't be able to help specifically. :P
huh?
Suggestions on nVidia cards is what I'm primarily interested in.
Or are you saying that I can't pick up anything decent for under $200?
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I have an ATI 4950, great card, shit software.
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Right now I'm thinking about either a pair of 1 Gig GTS 250's for $99/each
or a single GTX 465 for $250
I know the smarter choice long term is the GTX 465 so that I can put it in SLI later...but lets be honest, if I'm not using the SLI configuration now, I'm not likely to do it later when the next shiny comes out. It does support directx 11...but do I really care?
Are there any other cards that I should be looking at?
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What I meant was as of recent, ATI cards seem to be having a better price to performance ratio than nVidia, but I don't know enough about ATI cards to give you a specific suggestion.
On the topic of Dx11, some newer games have been DirectX 10 ONLY games, so I wouldn't be surprised to see some Dx11 ONLY games coming out in the near future.
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Unless you go SLI right off the bat, ignore it, and don't let it weigh into your options. I've always been an nVidia guy, but the new batch of Radeons are nice cards. I have a 5770 that I recently picked up for a reasonable price and it's pretty good. The nVidia's 260 is a stellar card as well.
You could always check this out... which does some analysis for you:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-card-geforce-radeon,2646.html (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-card-geforce-radeon,2646.html)
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Check this out
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/nvidia-geforce-gtx-460-becomes-everyones-favorite-midrange-grap/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+weblogsinc/engadget+(Engadget)
The card just came out today.
Or, I'm willing to sell you my 9800GTX for $100 or something, and I'll get that card. :P
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Right now I'm thinking about either a pair of 1 Gig GTS 250's for $99/each
or a single GTX 465 for $250
I know the smarter choice long term is the GTX 465 so that I can put it in SLI later...but lets be honest, if I'm not using the SLI configuration now, I'm not likely to do it later when the next shiny comes out. It does support directx 11...but do I really care?
Are there any other cards that I should be looking at?
That's what I use, a pair of gts250s, does the trick for me.
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I don't know much about nvidia lately, as I'm an ATI fan, but if it's anything like CrossFireX, don't you have to have the the same GPU on each card for the SLI to work properly?
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Correct. That's why most people end up buying a single card, and getting the 2nd one later once the price drops, or get two older cards. SLIing two newer cards is way too expensive for the performance gain you get. Better to get a single card that's more powerful than the two SLI'd. Less power, less heat, but a better....experience?
I just ordered one of the new GTX 460's (came out yesterday), so I'll have it by Friday and be able to give a better opinion on it.
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just built a new PC in april. put in a radeon 5850 which is taking everything i can throw at it now. plus, i have another PCI x16 slot left over for if/when i need to throw another 5850 in there way down the road (when it will be nice and cheap).
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I just got my GTX 460 today, and I am throughly impressed. My 3D mark vantage graphics score almost doubled, and I get over 200% better performance in TF2 (even with higher settings than I was using with my 9800 GTX+)
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I just ordered a GTX460 last night also
MSI N460GTX CYCLONE 1Gb
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127510
Will post a review after I get it and install in a few days.
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lol what's with the blue DVI ports? I thought they were VGA at first :P
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I've currently got a evga nvidia 8600 GT w/ 1G DDR2
my system board can handle 2 nvidia PCIe cards in SLI
I'm looking for a decent bump w/o spending much more than $200
Single great card?
Two decent cards in SLI?
if it's not too late, I'd recommend going SLI with the 8600GT since that has to be very cheap now (perhaps even getting a used card) -- that will buy you a few months at which point the $250+ cards will have fallen significantly in price. Def check tomshardware video card charts to see what kind of performance bump a 2nd 8600 will get you (basically look at 2x 8600 = what single card).
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Ordered my card on 8/31 with UPS 3 day shipping, shipped on 9/1 UPS says it won't be delivered til 9/7.
FUCKING BULLSHIT.
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Don't forget that Monday is a holiday. My textbooks are arriving really late due to the same reason.
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sorry i gotta laugh at the UPS comment, people swear up and down about how good they are and FedEx sucks (i work for FedEx) i ordered roughly $800 of snowboarding gear, i payed extra money for next day shipping (to me at Fedex Next day is 10am-12pm or 12pm-430pm is (depends on area) I got it at 7:00 at night, but when i ordered a POV cam from amazon 2 day shipping it got to my house at 3pm
my first bad story with them was when i ordered my pc (ordered all the parts to build it at once) of course from New Egg they wanted signatures (all hardware one box, case on its own) and since i lived in a apt at the time im glad they didn't leave it, i call the 800# can you please hold both boxes at the station i drive by it everyday, i show up 1 box is there, i tell them PLEASE hold the other one for tomorrow, i show up at the station the next day and it went out on the road AGAIN, this time im in my FedEx uniform with another customer behind me a UPS manager had the balls to tell me hey at least we deliver our stuff on time, i shot back with a hey at least we get it right the first time not the third time when a customer asks us to hold a package at the station (the customer behind me got a kick out of the 2 of us bitching at each other of course), i asked if my GF at the time could meet the driver on the road (most Fedex drivers usually will) and he claimed that was fine, well that never happened this time after hours still in my FedEx uniform i walked right into the warehouse and ripped the guy a new one, but finally got my box lol