What's the best Grafx card I can get for about $100-$150?

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#1 ItsBriskBaby
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P.S. Please post your thoughts and why you choose what you did. I'm looking to purchase, but undecided and don't know what to pick.

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#2 AcesTranquility
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HD 4850 1GB - $120 to $150 that would be your best option it is a great card and can handle almost all new games... It'll serve you well

or the GTS 250 - $150 but it is not quite as good

Go for the HD 4850 ; )

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#3 ItsBriskBaby
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[QUOTE="AcesTranquility"]

HD 4850 1GB - $120 to $150 that would be your best option it is a great card and can handle almost all new games... It'll serve you well

or the GTS 250 - $150 but it is not quite as good

Go for the HD 4850 ; )

Who makes that card? Raideon?
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#4 cs45F
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[QUOTE="ItsBriskBaby"][QUOTE="AcesTranquility"]

HD 4850 1GB - $120 to $150 that would be your best option it is a great card and can handle almost all new games... It'll serve you well

or the GTS 250 - $150 but it is not quite as good

Go for the HD 4850 ; )

Who makes that card? Raideon?

Yes the 4800 series is made by ATI and the 200 series is made by nvidia.
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#5 AcesTranquility
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If you mean Radeon, ye

you could look at the gtx 260 there are some for $160 ( abit better)

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Irecently purchased a pc and obtained a 250 gts with it, i heard it has a slightly better performance overall then the 4850 and slightly less power use.

If nothing else it comes with physX which i dont think the 4850 supports but the card did cost me 30 $ more.

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#7 jevery57
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4870 (512) $135

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Another thing that a friend told me was that DX11 cards were coming soon, how much are those going to gofor?

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#9 ItsBriskBaby
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4870 (512) $135

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Pretty nice card there for the price, so far I'm liking it.
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#10 AcesTranquility
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4870 (512) $135

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512mb, only good for cross fire... it depends on res, for low res the 4850 will not be as effective as the 4870 512mb but the 4850 1gb would beat the 4870 512mb at a higher resolution ; )

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#11 cs45F
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Another thing that a friend told me was that DX11 cards were coming soon, how much are those going to gofor?

ItsBriskBaby
New cards like that will likly price in the $400-500 range heck the GTX295 is still in the 4-500 range.
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#12 jevery57
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Sum of FPS Benchmarks 1920x1200

with anti aliasing, 8AA (High Quality)

4870 (512) = 134 FPS

4850 (1Gb) = 119 FPS

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-2009-high-quality/Sum-of-FPS-Benchmarks-1920x1200,1345.html

467 FPS to 370 FPS without AA

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-2009-high-quality/Sum-of-FPS-Benchmarks-1920x1200,1343.html

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http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3520&p=9


4870 512mb is alway stronger then 4850 1GB Because it as higher clock and GDDR5 which is avaible only in high-end Ati gpu : 4870 & 4890 only Incoming 5850 / 5870 would all have GDDR5 as Well : tough it most of peopel say GDDR3 / GDDR5 don't really matter Because the way nvidia do thing with GDDR3 such as with 285GTX is Great

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#14 subrosian
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[QUOTE="ItsBriskBaby"]

Another thing that a friend told me was that DX11 cards were coming soon, how much are those going to gofor?

cs45F
New cards like that will likly price in the $400-500 range heck the GTX295 is still in the 4-500 range.

Not true - ATI is dropping mainstream cards simultaneously with their enthusiast cards - meaning we will see the entire price range represented in September / October, rather than simply the high-end part. If nothing else, it will cause a major shake-up for the prices of existing cards.
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#15 cs45F
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[QUOTE="cs45F"][QUOTE="ItsBriskBaby"]

Another thing that a friend told me was that DX11 cards were coming soon, how much are those going to gofor?

subrosian
New cards like that will likly price in the $400-500 range heck the GTX295 is still in the 4-500 range.

Not true - ATI is dropping mainstream cards simultaneously with their enthusiast cards - meaning we will see the entire price range represented in September / October, rather than simply the high-end part. If nothing else, it will cause a major shake-up for the prices of existing cards.

Hmm nice but still i would think your high end cards would be around $400 unless ATI surprises us this fall.
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#16 dfballa23
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go for the Nvidia card. Nvidia over powers ATI anyday

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#17 ItsBriskBaby
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go for the Nvidia card. Nvidia over powers ATI anyday

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See I got a motherboard with an Nvidia chipset and I thought of keeping it all Nvidia, but if I can get an ATI card cheaper that will be suffice for me.
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#18 cs45F
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If you up your budget a little bit you can get a ATi Radeon 4890 which will run games great.
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#19 chris24l
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If you up your budget a little bit you can get a ATi Radeon 4890 which will run games great.cs45F

yes the 4890 does, its a great card.

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#20 marcthpro
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[QUOTE="dfballa23"]

go for the Nvidia card. Nvidia over powers ATI anyday

ItsBriskBaby


See I got a motherboard with an Nvidia chipset and I thought of keeping it all Nvidia, but if I can get an ATI card cheaper that will be suffice for me.



http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/07/15/inno3d-ichill-geforce-gtx-275-review/6
Review of 4890 / 275GTX recent Overclocking make it match 285GTX source : X-bits lab
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd4890_8.html#sect2

According lot of Benchmark ATI is Leading over Nvidia in Cost / performances any time and will continue that way on HD5000 Series
Unless Nvidia Start to Create Extreme power full card at Lower price who know

Nvidia as Fall of Quality in motherboard in past 2 year because the NF chipset in intel isn't Performing and updated with newer revision that perform as great with Excellent northbrdige / solid capacitor as the P45 / X48 : i haven't seen a Version of NF750 Performing any close to P45 For single card usage & memory O.C

Mean while X58 Does support Both Nvidia Sli / ATI Crossfire X and EVGA is a Leader now For LGA 1336 (Core i7) suppose to support Core i9


and for highest enthusiast for 5-10fps Extra then Ati Solution there is 3-way 285GTX Vs ; 3-way 4890 1GB VS 4870x2 Crossfire X & 295GTX Quad sli which will all of those solution perform in Extreme high performances as they are the top of power


But for single card & O.C It REveal that 4890 1GB is a Leader Even in Crossfire if you could have O.C both then it Amazing how it could surpass 285GTX by 3-4fps+ while cost less then 285GTX

But I must say A nvidia Fan that as bough a nvidia motherboard and maybe always bough Nvidia product in the past 7 year may think NF750 is a Great motherboard of Excellent Qualityand may think that nvidia will be #1 in all domain of price/performances for all time

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2008/11/21/gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3r/11

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#21 fatcat13sep
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if you have 2 pci-e slots you could get a two 4670 and crossfire it

price for one is $65

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Evga Gtx 260 core 216 probably the best budget card. You can find them for 150 or less. Check Ebay don't buy retail if you want sub 150.

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[QUOTE="cs45F"] Hmm nice but still i would think your high end cards would be around $400 unless ATI surprises us this fall.

Depends how you define "high-end". If you're talking about buying the next 4870x2, GTX 295, etc - then yes, expect to open your wallet. If you're talking about buying a card that will be a DX11 card with performance similar to a 4870 or 4890, built on a smaller process (thus better power consumption, more easily put into "mainstream" systems, etc... I'm not expecting a $400 pricetag for such a thing. It wouldn't hold up, as nVidia is right around the corner with their next GPU line as well.
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#24 subrosian
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if you have 2 pci-e slots you could get a two 4670 and crossfire it

price for one is $65

benchmark

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Why wouldn't you just spend $99 and get a single 4850, given the performance is similar?
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Why are the gtx285's so much more money than the ATI cards with similar stats? There's like a $200 difference or so. lol That's a pretty steep price differential.
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#26 subrosian
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Why are the gtx285's so much more money than the ATI cards with similar stats? There's like a $200 difference or so. lol That's a pretty steep price differential.TheUberKnight
What card does ATI have that matches the GTX 285? The HD 4890 is in competition with the GTX 275, and if you check Newegg, you'll see they're about the same in price.
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[QUOTE="TheUberKnight"]Why are the gtx285's so much more money than the ATI cards with similar stats? There's like a $200 difference or so. lol That's a pretty steep price differential.subrosian
What card does ATI have that matches the GTX 285? The HD 4890 is in competition with the GTX 275, and if you check Newegg, you'll see they're about the same in price.

Oh? ATI has it's own 1GB GPU just like Nvidia does with the 285. I guess the differences is the shaders and so forth.