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From: War on 27 Apr 2010 11:24
I currently have a GF 7950 GX2 but am looking to upgrade to a newer
card. I've always been a GeForce fan and never bought anything from
ATI/AMD. But I keep hearing good things so I'm open to either brand if
the price and performance is right.

I'm looking to spend no more that approx $200 (i'd do $250 if it was a
really good deal on price/performance tho).

I'm eyeb alling the GF GTX 260 and GTX 275, but am unsure which AMD
card to compare these against. Can anyone tell me?

Also, i've been hearing that this generation of AMD cards is better
than the GeForce ones, have others found this to be the case?

Any suggestions for cards would be great.
From: Paul on 28 Apr 2010 00:24
War wrote:
> I currently have a GF 7950 GX2 but am looking to upgrade to a newer
> card. I've always been a GeForce fan and never bought anything from
> ATI/AMD. But I keep hearing good things so I'm open to either brand if
> the price and performance is right.
>
> I'm looking to spend no more that approx $200 (i'd do $250 if it was a
> really good deal on price/performance tho).
>
> I'm eyeb alling the GF GTX 260 and GTX 275, but am unsure which AMD
> card to compare these against. Can anyone tell me?
>
> Also, i've been hearing that this generation of AMD cards is better
> than the GeForce ones, have others found this to be the case?
>
> Any suggestions for cards would be great.

Looking at the price charts, an HD 5830 might be close.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/xfx-radeon-hd5830_6.html#sect2

One small advantage of the new ATI cards, is idle power consumption.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/xfx-radeon-hd5830/xfx5830_power.png

Paul
From: ShadowTek on 28 Apr 2010 20:58
On 2010-04-27, War <war3rd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I currently have a GF 7950 GX2 but am looking to upgrade to a newer
> card. I've always been a GeForce fan and never bought anything from
> ATI/AMD. But I keep hearing good things so I'm open to either brand if
> the price and performance is right.
>
> I'm looking to spend no more that approx $200 (i'd do $250 if it was a
> really good deal on price/performance tho).
>
> I'm eyeb alling the GF GTX 260 and GTX 275, but am unsure which AMD
> card to compare these against. Can anyone tell me?
>
> Also, i've been hearing that this generation of AMD cards is better
> than the GeForce ones, have others found this to be the case?
>
> Any suggestions for cards would be great.

If you ever use Linux, I'd stay away from ATI. They drop support
for older cards, while nVidia has continued to support their older
cards.

nVidia is the better investment for a Linux user IMO.
From: Tim Mastrogiacomo on 3 May 2010 19:19
On Apr 27, 10:24 am, War <war...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I currently have a GF 7950 GX2 but am looking to upgrade to a newer
> card. I've always been a GeForce fan and never bought anything from
> ATI/AMD. But I keep hearing good things so I'm open to either brand if
> the price and performance is right.
>
> I'm looking to spend no more that approx $200 (i'd do $250 if it was a
> really good deal on price/performance tho).
>
> I'm eyeb alling the GF GTX 260 and GTX 275, but am unsure which AMD
> card to compare these against. Can anyone tell me?
>
> Also, i've been hearing that this generation of AMD cards is better
> than the GeForce ones, have others found this to be the case?
>
> Any suggestions for cards would be great.

A comparable ATI card is the Radeon HD 4890, but I would stick with a
GeForce.


Tim Mastrogiacomo
From: Larc on 4 May 2010 12:10
On Mon, 3 May 2010 16:19:37 -0700 (PDT), Tim Mastrogiacomo <tm1452(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

| On Apr 27, 10:24�am, War <war...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
| > I currently have a GF 7950 GX2 but am looking to upgrade to a newer
| > card. I've always been a GeForce fan and never bought anything from
| > ATI/AMD. But I keep hearing good things so I'm open to either brand if
| > the price and performance is right.
| >
| > I'm looking to spend no more that approx $200 (i'd do $250 if it was a
| > really good deal on price/performance tho).
| >
| > I'm eyeb alling the GF GTX 260 and GTX 275, but am unsure which AMD
| > card to compare these against. Can anyone tell me?
| >
| > Also, i've been hearing that this generation of AMD cards is better
| > than the GeForce ones, have others found this to be the case?
| >
| > Any suggestions for cards would be great.
|
| A comparable ATI card is the Radeon HD 4890, but I would stick with a
| GeForce.

I tried GeForce first (9500-GT), didn't like it, and then Radion (HD 4850). It's
maybe a little better, IMO. But after many years of using ultra-reliable
Matrox, I don't find either GeForce or Radion to be anything worth writing home
about. It seems neither outfit has fully mastered constructing drivers yet.

Larc
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