Best choice for this?

[Robbo]

Birthday coming up, got around £200 for a new graphics card if its worth it, not studied through them yet, havent kept up to date with all the new ones(yet!).

Got a BFG 8800GTX at the moment, what would be the best upgrade for around the figure of £200, could stretch it if its really worth it, would I notice much of a difference for the money or is it best waiting?

Cheers

 

[Lemons_Mufc]

i'd say the 4890 at this moment in time and save your self some money also

 

[Robbo]

So would Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

be a really significant boost over an 8800 GTX for most games etc?

 

[Frame352]

What resolution are you palying at mate?

 

[Trunks9486]

New cards afre excpected in end of Q3 if you can wait.

 

[karl01]

Yh wait nothing wrong with a 8800gtx wait for dx11

 

[Robbo]

What resolution are you palying at mate?

1920x1200, so its basically the best card for the money at the moment, my 8800GTX is a very good card and I have no complaints but I can always find an excuse to crank the settings up some more!

Browsing through the OCUK shop this stood out as a good deal -

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-094-GW&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat= (Gainward ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 "Golden Sample" 2048MB GDDR5)

How do they hold up?

 

[Dauthi]

For the res the 4870x2 should do you great and can't complain about the price either.

 

[Robbo]

Well after reading around etc I've decided (I think) to go with the

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-174-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1235

Last call if anyone has any reasons why I shouldnt? (New cards coming out doesnt matter as I need it this week really, I'll get another when the new ones are out aswell!)

 

[coupe69]

I'd rather have this GTX285 which can be had for £229 on overclockers. I'd always go for the fastest single gpu option over any dual gpu solution, this is purely based on my past personal experiences.

 

[kylew]

Well after reading around etc I've decided (I think) to go with the

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-174-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1235

Last call if anyone has any reasons why I shouldnt? (New cards coming out doesnt matter as I need it this week really, I'll get another when the new ones are out aswell!)

That's pretty much the best card for the price you can get at the moment, any other card around the same price is either embarrasingly slower, or anything faster is around 60% more expensive for a performance increase that's in single digit percentages.

So yeah, I'd recommend that be the card you buy.

 

[kylew]

I'd rather have this GTX285 which can be had for £229 on overclockers. I'd always go for the fastest single gpu option over any dual gpu solution, this is purely based on my past personal experiences.

No offense, but usually these 'past personal experiences' are down to user error and holding grduges due to it.

The GTX285 is terrible for the money you pay for it. A 4890 is barely any slower, yet the 285 is 70% more expensive than a 4890 for less than 10% more performance on average.

Before anyone starts, this isn't anything to do with 'ATi versus nVidia' it's just a case of, at the moment nVidia's graphics cards are grossly overpriced for the performance you get.

It's like buying a 400ml can of coke for 90p when you could have got a 380ml can of coke for 50p. (yeah I know there aren't 400ml cans of coke).