Looking to do better than my current 9800GT...suggestions welcome

[allanon1965]

I am trying to do better than my 9800gt without costing a small fortune, I want to stay under 150.00 if possible. I had done some looking arouind and found an HD4830 that seemed to be a bit better than my 9800gt, for 60 bucks, and it had hdmi as well, but it aint cuttin the mustard. my 9800gt seriously runs a lot better than this HD4830.

I am looking for a few suggestions from the crowd here who have much more expeirience with up to date video than I do.

I need it to be PCI-E 16X 2.0 with at least 512mb of ram, 256Bit and an HDMI Port and DVI port.

My system right now is an Asrock G41M-S with an E5200 wolfdale P4, 4GB OCZ DDR 2,
OCZ 500Watt modular PSU, 500GB SATA II WD Green HD.

In a day or 2 my E8400 will be here so I will have much more CPU power then.

thanks!



Edit: the card I have right now is this one...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127381

also..how important is the bit rate? is there that much difference between 128 bit and 256 bit?

 

[RavenSEAL]

GTX460 or HD6850

They are about even with the HD6850 winning here or there and the GTX460 winning some here and some there.

I would suggest the HD6850, since it is more power efficient. But it goes for around $170 after rebate, leaving you with the GTX460 as the clear choice.

 

[digitaldurandal]

9800gt was a good card for its time. Look at a 460 1gb non SE or 5870.

Edit: 5870 about 50 bucks out of your range perhaps. 6850 then.