upgrade for 8800 gt 512

[monkey333]

what would be a decent upgrade for my card? not sure how much i'd like to spend.

Wait till later this month when new cards ae released and current cards drop in price?

 

[toyota]

what res do you play at and what does the rest of your system look like?

 

[Dark Shroud]

Eitherway waiting unitl later this month will save you some money. But it would help if you said was resolution you game at as well as what games you like to play.

Example: Valve Source games run better with AMD hardware.

 

[Davidh373]

Example: Valve Source games run better with AMD hardware.

WTF? REALLY? Since when did source games require anything above an 8800 anyway haha. It doesn't really matter, Half Life 2/ CS:S/ TF2 get maxed out at any resolution at ridiculous framerates with any modern card (as long as you aren't packing a pentium 3 on the side...).

It would be smart to wait for the ATI 6xxx series to launch even if you don't plan on buying one. It will drop prices.

Before I tell you what card you can get that will be worthwhile you do kinda need to post the resolution of your monitor and what the rest of your system specs are.

 

[monkey333]

q6600, 8 gigs of ram, 23 mon running 1600 x 1200, 2nd mon 1280 x 1024. Prefer shooters, gaming wise.

 

[toyota]

1600x1200 on a 23 inch monitor?

 

[cusideabelincoln]

It would be worth waiting for the new AMD cards at this point. And figure out how much you want to spend. You should probably look for a card around a GTX 460 or HD 5850 performance level.