What you're missing is that it needs to be priced closer to $49.99-$59.99 to be a good deal considering its performance.
4670's average around $65 and this card is faster. Although for a little more than that 240 you can get a GTS250 which is a bit faster than a HD4850.
So when the price debate is the other way round, you always give the lowest number for an nVidia card. Yet now you give an average price for the HD4670?
Was I talking to you? No!
Someone quoted a range they think the card should be. So my statement was not only accurate, but makes you look foolish in your response.
The 4670 is slow and lacks the features of a 240.
The 240 is a good card, unless of course you are a blind follower of the "red way". Then I guess you can go for a slow POS like the 4670.
So no thinks the card I linked is a good buy or are you too busy flaming each other?
Happy Medium:
What do you think?
For PhysX (as an add-on card) OCing won't matter. Or at least it shoudn't. 110$ is very expensive if you consider there are 9800GTs for less that will give you better performance, even in PhysX. As a standalone card the picture is even worse - you will get more performance for less here, even a GTS250 that I linked to.
I mean, if you really want to spend 110$ for a card that has "GT" in the name and the number "240" - sure, get it. Otherwise I don't see any other reason for getting it.
As for your PSU, a PhysX add-on card doesn't run full power - from what I remember it hardly ramps up the power usage. So even with your 535W PSU you should be fine. You might want to read up on that a bit more though - I distinctively remember an article covering power usage in such a scenario.[/QUOTE]
I'm planning on a q9550 upgrade @ 4.0 soon and I added another hard drive already Hopefully my next gpu upgrade to 40nm won't pull more amps then my gtx 260. Thats if the Fermi cards ever get here?
I applied no double standard. Go back and read it again.You're expressing your opinion on a public forum. Not to mention you're using double standards when giving advice about nVidia or ATi cards.
The only features the GT240 "lacks" is CUDA and PhysX.
Sure you could. Maybe not at super high resolutions, but I'm sure you are not applying that double standard here.You won't run PhysX on this card anyway (not in single-card mode at least) - at most it will be a good PhysX add-on card.
If performs well for a card that averages under $100, while providing a lot of features with low power/heat/noise.Both cards are slow and not really good for gaming to begin with - so one being a tad slower than the other doesn't make a difference. You'll be running similar settings on both cards anyway.
Finally, nVidia themselves offer better cards for the same money - how does that make a GT240 good in any meaning of the word? That's right, it doesn't. The GDDR5 is there to fool people into believing this card is remotely competitive to anything else in that price-range. Unless you're comparing it to another GT240, it gets beaten badly in every imaginable scenario. You don't have to add ATi into the mix (but if you will, they offer similar performance levels for a lot less $$$).
I really don't want to spend more than 60-75 bucks for a video card...and of course I want 150 buck performance!![]()
I really don't want to spend more than 60-75 bucks for a video card...and of course I want 150 buck performance!![]()
I have a 550w BFG PSU....21.5 inch HP LCD monitor...primarily interested in MMOs...like Star Trek Online and Star Wars Old Republic.....shopping on new egg, amazon, or Best Buy since I might have some gift cards coming my way...