Recent content by donflamenco

Hmm, the reason I can't agree with the 4870 is because the GTX 260 Core 216 was a good competitor about the same price. Good card, but most decent cards of the 4870 generation still run great today. That probably says more about today's games though. Don

The X1900XTX was $650 when it came out early 2006. By the time the 8800GTX came out later that year (at $600), it was about 2x faster than the X1950XTX (though ATI did price that one at $450.) Don

I have to go with the 8800GTX/Ultra. Man that card was top of the heap for so long, especially with the disasters that was ATI's X1900, HD 2900 were. I put the 5870 because even after Nvidia came out with the 480GTX, it was a much better choice. It's still a damn good card and it also has...

I was a fan of the 4870 (I had a 4890), but they were at best on par with the GTX 200 series. They were better values certainly.

Here's my list of chips that have had extraordinary shelf lives as good cards. 3) AMD 5870 2) ATI 9700 Pro 1) Nvidia 8800 GTX The criteria being that the video card is so competitive, to have a card that can be useful spanning multiple generations is really special. To make the list...