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[Cosmos_Shielder]

here a giant ladder for almost every existing graphic card : http://choisirsoncpu.free.fr/classement-complet-cartes-graphiques.php?id=219

[Kelugarn]

Go for this! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150617

Faster than the GTX560, and it's the current generation of AMD cards. Fantastic performance with the latest drivers, and at $154.99 (after $20 Mail In Rebate) it's a great deal.
Definitely check it out.

Newegg +1

[TheAppleSauceMan]

I'm trying to acquire this graphics card http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7191450&CatId=3669 because it doubles my current shit and its within my price range. My dilemma is that I am not sure if it will go on sale for Cyber Monday or not. Because if I can get a sweet deal on this and spend less money then why not? If anyone has any idea how to check to see if this will go on sale or if you can find a graphics card of equal or greater performance within the price range of $150 max, then any help would be greatly appreciated

Not still if you're still looking into this one, or are looking at a different one, but I work at Best Buy, if you want I could ask them if we're gonna have any deals on any graphics cards you might be interested in. I mean personally I buy at newegg, but hey, it's worth a shot, right?

[Tom Cruise]

Not still if you're still looking into this one, or are looking at a different one, but I work at Best Buy, if you want I could ask them if we're gonna have any deals on any graphics cards you might be interested in. I mean personally I buy at newegg, but hey, it's worth a shot, right?

That would be awesome if you could But ya I would prefer newegg but I just dont know if they will have a sale or not.

[Mechanix]

Did you not see my post about the HD7850?

[TheAppleSauceMan]

That would be awesome if you could But ya I would prefer newegg but I just dont know if they will have a sale or not.

Will do! I'll let you know if they will have anything decent on some that you might be interested in! Well, you can always just wait, worst thing that happens if they don't then you can just buy it normally or wait for other sales

[HarryCrumb]

I wish I had the forums power to do so but I guess this post will have to work...

-1 to Ostulor's atrocious post.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

Hey, nice card. If you play though it is noisy so that shouldn't bother you.

And just make it like me: Buy a shitty ATI Toxic Card with warrant on Ebay, let it blow, get money of original price, buy new evga card

[Tom Cruise]

Well I was doing a bit of research and it seems I should get a 2GB such as this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-150-609&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=3#scrollFullInfo

I would be buying a new power supply as well. I was thinking maybe this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139028&Tpk=corsair%20600w%20psu

Now the price is jacked up a bit but it would get the job done, as well with an additional fan. The only complaint I see about this one is that it may be a little big. Im not sure how it will fair with my current tower.

This is my current PC http://www.asus.com/Desktop/Gaming/Essentio_CG1330/
I have not added anything to it in anyway. Just use it the way I got it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Mechanix]

Only 4 expansion slots, it will be tight in there.
Take a pic of the inside of the case, because the Asus website doesn't show one.

Only reason I recommended the 1GB 7850 is because it was inside your price range.
For an extra $10, you can upgrade to the 2GB HD7870 -- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161411

[Tom Cruise]

Only 4 expansion slots, it will be tight in there.
Take a pic of the inside of the case, because the Asus website doesn't show one.

Only reason I recommended the 1GB 7850 is because it was inside your price range.
For an extra $10, you can upgrade to the 2GB HD7870 -- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161411

Well how will this perform though? Because I read some feedback on the 1GB  and a lot of people said that they had trouble running games like BF3, Skyrim, etc., and more like these more recent games.

[Leshma]

You should get nVidia card. Not because crap nV fanboys say, there are valid reasons for it:

1) AMD is dying company, there is a chance that next this time next year you won't be able to get new drivers for your card
2) AMD drivers for Linux are shit and Steam is getting ported to Linux
3) nVidia 660Ti series are more expensive but are better than AMD 7850/7870
4) AMD OpenGL drivers are really bad and there will be a number of good OpenGL games coming

Maybe in a month or so there will be some really good sale for 660Ti.

[Tom Cruise]

You should get nVidia card. Not because crap nV fanboys say, there are valid reasons for it:

1) AMD is dying company, there is a chance that next this time next year you won't be able to get new drivers for your card
2) AMD drivers for Linux are shit and Steam is getting ported to Linux
3) nVidia 660Ti series are more expensive but are better than AMD 7850/7870
4) AMD OpenGL drivers are really bad and there will be a number of good OpenGL games coming

Maybe in a month or so there will be some really good sale for 660Ti.

Orrrrrrrrr Cyber Monday or Christmas sale hopefully. But 300 bucks man?

[Mechanix]

You should get nVidia card. Not because crap nV fanboys say, there are valid reasons for it:

1) AMD is dying company, there is a chance that next this time next year you won't be able to get new drivers for your card
2) AMD drivers for Linux are shit and Steam is getting ported to Linux
3) nVidia 660Ti series are more expensive but are better than AMD 7850/7870
4) AMD OpenGL drivers are really bad and there will be a number of good OpenGL games coming

Maybe in a month or so there will be some really good sale for 660Ti.

This is quite possibly the most stupid post I've read in 2012.
I can assume this only happens because you're talking about something you really don't know anything about.

1) AMD is not going under, at least not in the near future. Stop.

2) Who cares about Linux? Steam is being ported to Linux.. what does that mean? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

3) The GTX660TI is more expensive and the competitor to the HD7950 at the pricepoint, not the HD7850. Mind you, for $300 you could get a HD7950 and wipe the floor with a GTX660TI. It's not a good card at all for the price. With your argument, I could say the HD7970 is better than the GTX660TI, even though it's more expensive. See how stupid this sounds? OK.

4) AMD OpenGL drivers are quite fine. There's no difference between nV / AMD when it comes to OpenGL. What games are coming out that are notable using OGL?

None of your reasons are valid, it's typical nV fanboy bullshit.
BTW, I own 2 GTX680s in SLI -- Good luck with the AMD fanboy argument.

Well how will this perform though? Because I read some feedback on the 1GB  and a lot of people said that they had trouble running games like BF3, Skyrim, etc., and more like these more recent games.

For Skyrim it could be useful, for BF3 it won't make much of a difference. BF3 will use as much vRam as you have as it uses a dynamic memory system. It will use as much as you have available. I have 2 GTX680s, and it uses around 1900mb (2GB cards) in a full 64player MP server. It looks exactly the same as it did on my 2 GTX480s (1.5GB cards).
Seeing the HD7870 for an extra $10 is a pretty good deal. I would go with the 2GB HD7870 I posted in the link before.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

Why did you - my post leshma? I think you misunderstood  it or something.