^^^This, at the resolution you'd be playing at you wouldn't anymore than a 4850. Take the money you would have spent on the gtx295, get a 4850 and with the change upgrade the rest of the system.
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Upgrade From a Ati 2900xt To A GTX 295
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^^^This, at the resolution you'd be playing at you wouldn't anymore than a 4850. Take the money you would have spent on the gtx295, get a 4850 and with the change upgrade the rest of the system.
But the 4850 is another 30 quid
. Having said that if you could stretch to a 4850 then it would be the obvious choice.The price range of the 4850 is quite wide
Yes I realise that, but the cheapest one on ocuk is £123, whereas the cheapest 9800GT is £92. The price difference is similar on other sites too.
Considering that the 9800GT is just an 8800GT, which is far far behind a 4850, that should instantly be off your shopping list. Same for the 9800GTX+ it's also slower than a 4850 and more expensive (I think).
Buy what's best for your money and yourself. The fact that the card is an nvidia or ATi card doesn't make it better in anyway, so don't use 'I want to go nvidia' as a reason to get a graphics card.
Get one that's the best value you can get for the money.
Buy what's best for your money and yourself. The fact that the card is an nvidia or ATi card doesn't make it better in anyway, so don't use 'I want to go nvidia' as a reason to get a graphics card.
Get one that's the best value you can get for the money.
When quite a few of you refer to overkill what does this mean ie whats it likely to lose out or mess up on, as was also advised not to go as high as a 260 due to my lcd hd ready 720p wont cope yet i can play games at 1920x 1080 and its connected via dvi to hdmi, other than that was advised make that a limit
The samsung TV that you have can only show a maximum resolution of 1366 x 768. It's only true HD TV's that can produce a 1920 x 1080 resolution.
Overkill is when you purchase a graphics card that's too powerful for your requirements, where you won't see a difference between a powerful, expensive card and a cheaper, less powerful card. Therefore can save money and get a cheaper card which will be more then enough for what you need.
Normally for a standard 22" monitor, which shows a resolution of 1680 x 1050, a 4850 is a good card to go for, so at your resolution you wouldn't require much more.
He wouldn't require anymore seeing as the resolution on his telly is far less than 1680x1050.
1360x768=1044480 pixels
1680x1050=1764000 pixels.
Just buy yourself either an ATi 4830/4850 or if you must go Nvidia get a 9800GT or a second hand 8800GT/GTS(G92). Any of these cards will demolish that res. Talk of dual gpu cards is just a total waste of money at that resolution, when it can be better off spent upgrading the rest of your system. I have an 8800GT hooked up to my 720p tv in my front room and it plays everything with all the eye candy turned on with no issues.
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You really can't compare a 8800GT/9800GT to a 4830/50 though. Though I do agree that that's what he's best off getting.
Where did I say a 9800GT is comparable to a 4830/4850,
I was merely trying to point out to the OP that he doesn't need to spend a great deal of money on his pc to play games at a good framerate due to his low resolution. comparable nvidia cards would be a 9800GTX+ for a 4850 and a 260GTX for the 4870 1GB.1gb definately not needed at that res.
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the xfx black edition is a good overclocked card, as you get a good solid overclock on it, also the 280 is being farmed out to make way for the 285 (revised version) you might be able to pick up a 280 for little more than 260 prices, if your happy to overclock yourself go the a stock card and do it, most stock cards easily overclock past the overclocked editions anyway
The advantage the of XFX is that is has the 280's larger fan i think, so keeps the noise levels down
The advantage the of XFX is that is has the 280's larger fan i think, so keeps the noise levels down
Ah look another one that obviously hasn't even bothered to read the thread
It's no wonder the OP is confused with what he needs to get. A question Peter450, do you not think a 260 or 280 might just be a tad overkill for the op's native res of 1360x768?
IMO the best gpu - i.e. the one that gives the best performance/price ratio @the resolution your running would be the 4850.
Nothing wrong with either the 9800GT or the 9800GTX+ - they will run your resolution fine. (Would go for the GTX+, if I had to choose between 'em)
The advantage of the 4850 is that it's a little more powerful than either nvidia model ;which would hopefully mean that it would cope with newer games better and thereby last a little longer!
If you intend upgrading your monitor to 1920x1200 'ish then you would be better served getting a 4870/260/280 etc BUT as you have not mentioned this possibility will leave this subject there.
If you do not intend to upgrade monitor and are happy to spend the price of a 295 would VERY definately agree with suggestions made that you upgrade your motherboard and cpu to decent dual core (which will give you a good speed boost generally) and buy a 512mb 4850
Nothing wrong with either the 9800GT or the 9800GTX+ - they will run your resolution fine. (Would go for the GTX+, if I had to choose between 'em)
The advantage of the 4850 is that it's a little more powerful than either nvidia model ;which would hopefully mean that it would cope with newer games better and thereby last a little longer!
If you intend upgrading your monitor to 1920x1200 'ish then you would be better served getting a 4870/260/280 etc BUT as you have not mentioned this possibility will leave this subject there.
If you do not intend to upgrade monitor and are happy to spend the price of a 295 would VERY definately agree with suggestions made that you upgrade your motherboard and cpu to decent dual core (which will give you a good speed boost generally) and buy a 512mb 4850