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Need a card for around £100ish

i agree...i could save myself £40 for a lesser card, but in all honesty, is it worth it?

I'll keep my eye on the MM over the next couple of days and see if anything pops up, but for £120 for the ATI....i may just go for it.

As i've not been in the hunt for a card recently i didn't know whether ATI or Nvidia was the way to go at this level. I've had ATI cards for the last 3 but still worth a question
 
I know your pain mate. On wednesday I didn't know where to turn when my card died, especially for my budget of £100-150. I'm a heavy gamer though!

It was the Nvidia 260 or the ATI 4890 at the end of it all. For the price, the power, the ability of each cards; I chose the ATI. This was tough as I usually tend towards Nvidia when buying although I have had a mixture of cards in the past and all work fine.

Upto you mate, but if it were me being the tight ass I am, if I wasn't going to be using the card I wouldn't pay for it and I'd get a cheaper one that does a job, just not THE JOB. Like a GeForce 9800 or something.

Depends if you have the money to burn and if you ever feel that you might want to play games in the future on your rig...
 
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firstly - IT ISNT considerably faster at any resolution take a look here at a comparisson benchmark, http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...compare,1450.html?prod[2674]=on&prod[2702]=on
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Yes it is, Tom's Hardware is useless:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphics/review/2009/04/02/AMD-ATI-Radeon-HD-4890/p1
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_4890_nvidia_geforce_gtx_275/

Second - yes it does have more RAM but I think you would only notice this at extreme levels of eye candy and so the op definitely wouldnt notice.
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May aswell have the extra for the same price.

Third - DX10.1 support as you say very minor indeed
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Minor, may be more useful when DX11 comes out, no expert on this though.

and finally - has a cooler that exhausts outside the case (though it is noisier).
Well of course it does . . . . . . along with nearly every other current GPU ? ? ?
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You mean like the Palit 260 you recommended? The shroud doesn't cover the sink up to the PCI backplate, and the second fan will exhaust into the case, so it'll exhaust next to nothing out the PCI vent.

The native 7.1 over HDMI is a cracking feature too, missed that one! :D
 
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The trusted reviews review contradicts most other benchmark results for those cards... the firingsquad one shows the 260GTX admirably close to the 4890 in most cases and beating it nicely in a few... even more competitive than I had thought... no wonder ATI pulled prices down so much. Updated reviews also show the 260GTX nicely beating the 4870 in most cases now so it can't be _that_ far behind the 4890.
 
I have the Gainward 285 GTX, from Overclockers, it has the same dual fan as the Palit card (they are sister companys) The dual fans cool the card a treat! I would go for the Palit 260 GTX
 
For you a 4870 sounds perfect then. Either that or a 260, but most of the benchmarks i've seen show the 4870 outperforming the 260 slightly, plus its cheaper (depending on manufacturer).
 
the 4890 is around £25-£30 less than the 260 so i think i would go for that one over any. If my budget was up to the £150+ mark i would consider the 260/275 but for what i want/need it for, i think the 4890 should do just fine.
 
It sounds like a bit of a risk but sep 10th is the launch of AMD/ATi's new 58xx line of DirectX 11 gpu's so I would expect prices on the current line of cards such as the 4870/90 to drop shortly after. Might be able to catch a bargain if you are lucky.

Regardless I would say that £114 for the 260 or £120 for the 4890, I'd say 4890 without even batting an eyelid. The 4890 has been compared heavily to the 275, the 4870 runs more parallel to the 260 from the various benchmarks I've seen.

£120 is a steal for a 4890 card either way and whether you game or not, that's a price point worth jumping at. The only redeeming feature I would say the 260 has is the 3 year warrantee but I doubt you'll be stressing either card anyway.

Good luck choosing mate!
 
if u don't game then no point getting a £100+ card.

a cheap £50 card would do a same job as a £100+ card.

then put the rest of the money to something else..
 
Until the last couple of posts I was going to say get a 4650 for £40. But if you do fancy a bit of CoD4, I would go for a 4850 (about £80) or 4870 TWO for only £86! Bargain.
 
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