Video Card best and least ? 3

[jeremyquinn58]

Hi all,

I just purchased a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard and am wondering if anyone could recommend a good compatable video card, that's good, but not real expensive? I have looked at SAPPHIRE 100259-1GL Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card and GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card, but so far neither one of these seems like they are very good review wise.

 

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[SimonDavies]

It depends on your preference for Nvidia or ATI, I own a 9800GTX and can honestly say it's a great card, of course it's not the best one out there but for the price of it you can't go wrong (I had two in my system at one point, something you won't be able to do with your motherboard because it's not SLI capable).

If you want to be able to put two cards into your machine at any time in the future you are going to have to stick with ATI and their CrossFire technology (the same thing as SLI but ATI's version).

I really like the Nvidia cards, have had them for a few years now. My 9800's (I own two) are not doing too much now because I am using a 295 but the 9800's are a very decent card.

One thing though, you don't say what you're going to be using the system for. Games? Video transcoding?

Simon

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[paparazi]

Yes sure..there are now faster cards available than both the 980GTX and 4870, they were yesterday's 'kings' top dogs...
Reading your post you say a card that's good but not too expensive and by going for either of these two cards you have just that! both are now heavily discounted because they are the outgoing models, both are still very powerful...sure they are not going to keep up with the very latest cards but you will be paying just 40% of what the current top cards are costing.
As you have a Crossfire capable motherboard the ATI 4870 is probably you best bet, go for the 1gig version, this will play ALL the current games easily!
Martin

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Touched soul and hurt lay wounded deep
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[ll60630]

It all depends on what you want to do most. If you want to game, I've been a fan of any ATI board. In order to save a little money I'd look for the chipset (GPU) you like on a cheaper board such as those made by Sapphire.

If you just edit spreadsheets, just get the cheapest thing with at least 64MB of memory.

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