Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

[Rambo]

Well ive held off for too long but my card is dying and i need to enter the dx11 market.

The thing is im really out of touch on whats good, My budget is low:cryaround $250 Aud)
and last time radeons were in front but now its nvidia 580?.

Cards ive been looking at:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/nVidia-GeForce-GTX-550-GTX550-Ti-OC-1GB-1024MB-PCI-E-/230628611304?pt=AU_Components&hash=item35b28954e8

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ATI-Radeo...item35b26275ae

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ATI-Radeo...item35ad5aef1a

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ATI-Radeo...item53e7a3703e

The budget isnt as much as im used to but im prob going to upgrade my whole computer in a year or so a basic dx11 card is all i need.

Currently running a 98GT 1GB

[Rambo]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

two moar:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Gigabyte-...item2a0f59ec55

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Gigabyte-...item20b77362ce

[Scinto]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

GTX 560Ti 257 AUD

Worth a the extra 7 AUD.

[The_Eliminator]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

Im also extremely out of touch with the cards atm. Of the commercially available cards, which would you say is the best? And what is the top card currently out for nVidia and ATi?

(Dont mean to hijack thread)

[Scinto]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

Im also extremely out of touch with the cards atm. Of the commercially available cards, which would you say is the best? And what is the top card currently out for nVidia and ATi?

(Dont mean to hijack thread)

Nvidia GTX 580.
ATi 6990.

At the moment these 560Ti's are very nice cards for mid-range. Nvidia cards scale better SLI'd and 2 of these creep close to a 580.

[Rambo]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

Nice find ,cheers Scinto

[SgtMattBaker]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

Do you really need to get one now?
Why not wait a couple of months more and the new Nvidia GPUs will be out, meaning the 500s will go cheaper, maybe the 580 goes to 400 bucks or less, and given you saved some money in those months, it won't be hard to buy. Or maybe the 570 ... but that's just me :).

I've heard SLI 570s are the best ATM, even over the 590, don't know if this is true ... I know it's out of your budget, but if you wait maybe you can get them.

[The_Eliminator]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

That 580 does look tasty...

[Scinto]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

Do you really need to get one now?
Why not wait a couple of months more and the new Nvidia GPUs will be out, meaning the 500s will go cheaper, maybe the 580 goes to 400 bucks or less, and given you saved some money in those months, it won't be hard to buy. Or maybe the 570 ... but that's just me :).

I've heard SLI 570s are the best ATM, even over the 590, don't know if this is true ... I know it's out of your budget, but if you wait maybe you can get them.

You'll always be waiting for the next card to drop the previous ones prices.

Previous Nvidia cards will only drop in price if the new ones are any good and can compete with ATi.

I didn't realize Rambo still had a dual core, so he will still get a bottleneck with the 560ti, but it shouldn't be major. Rambo just has to save up for a new CPU/Mobo/Ram.

[Rambo]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

Yes i will be doing mobo,cpu and ram in about a year(just after bf3 release).May go back and give AMD another try?(6 core).

I run my 6750 cpu @3.0-3.2 GHZ tho.


Sarge baker: My current card is getting that bad that i should do something soon or be happy with 10-15fps lol

[SgtMattBaker]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

Yeah i know what you mean, I'm also saving for a new pc, my 9600GT is ... lame.

Do you think AMD is worth it? I have never used a PC with one.

[Rambo]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

Ive had two AMD machine's so far and both were bullet proof and fantastic, especially the price so id be happy to buy one again:thumbsup:.

[The_Eliminator]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

When i have the money and time i will be upgrading to an i7 core with an nVidia GTX580. I have had 2 previous ATi cards in the past and although performance wise they have been fine, they always seem to be very incompatible with games on release date.

[Rambo]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

Well i brought the 560ti

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Hopefully it will give me decent fps in most games with dx11?

*Yeah im a Nvidia fan too, prob because i had a lot of issue the Ati cataliyst in the past but people say its ok software now?

[Lordsethonan]

Re: Help me choose a Graphics card....Advice!

Exactly when in the past did you have issues with catalyst? It has been years since the true horror stories stopped happenning; and nVidia had one recently where they started blowing up cards because the new drivers wouldn't control fan speed and let temperatures rise beyond acceptable levels.

You'll get better framerate in DX11 if the game supports DX11 correctly, BFBC2 is one of those few; but CPU is more important than GPU for that game.

I'm still undecided between a 6870 and a 560ti because: Arkham city releases this year, I'd like physix support; Asylum had beautiful graphics with Physix turned on; and traditionally, aTi has better image quality, an din my experience with several cards from both manufacturers, all of the benchmarks are rigged in favor of nVidia; ALWAYS. Specially those from guru3D, those are borderline fanboyish.

So anyways I'm thorn; I dont play in resolutions that "need" 8x AA; 2x does fine for me so I don't need an uber videocard; yet I can't seem to decide on wich one to get :P