I Need Help Chosing a Video Card Plz help me!.

[gaaraownzz]

I just recently bulit a new intel core 2 quad Computer and i have a BFG Geforece GTS 250 512MB Graphics Card. it costs me roughly 100$. i was surfing the forums and people say that ATI Radeon GPUs are better than Nvidia. Can anyone tell me what i can get with ATI for about 100-130$ thats better than the GPU i have already? Thank you.

 

[Zensal]

That's not a bad card. It should preform well enough if your resolution is >1680x1050.

If you are really set on switching, this 4870 should be a little better then your GTS 250.

 

[Forumpanda]

There isn't any need to get a new card, yours should be fine for the next year or 2 and then there will be plenty of reason to swap to something faster with DX11 support

 

[gaaraownzz]

ok thank you very much. and also, so you think theres a need to go 1GB? for should i stay with the 512mb ?

 

[happy medium]

What resolution do you play at?

 

[gaaraownzz]

1440x900 is the highest it will go.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: gaaraownzz
1440x900 is the highest it will go.

512 will be plenty enough for you then.

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: gaaraownzz
1440x900 is the highest it will go.

512 MB is fine for that res.

 

[gaaraownzz]

thanks guys

 

[crisium]

Originally posted by: gaaraownzz
i was surfing the forums and people say that ATI Radeon GPUs are better than Nvidia

Ha, not surprising coming from here. I'm usually one of those people too.

But a GTS 250 512MB is fast probably about as perfect match for 1440x900 as you can get. Sure a Radeon 4870 is generally a little bit faster, but it would be absolutely ludicrous to upgrade from a 250 to a 4870.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

For a $100 that's a good deal. You won't get anything better without spending more money, and if you were to spend less money you would only get something as good or worse.

 

[betasub]

GTS 250 with 512MB should be fine at that low res. Of course, we don't know what sort of apps/games you are running, so we're only guessing how hard the graphics system is going to be stressed.