whuch gfx card to buy

arrangemonk

as some of you know i replaced my whole working station, because i killed it while trying to fix an issue with the chipsed heat sink,

im having an onboard graphics solution because i wanted to wait for the geforcegtx 300 series, but that might take till march, so i think ive gotta buy one now, since udk isnt really working with my ati 3300hd chip (low fps -> no fun)

so is tehre a cheap solution to handle unreal engine 3 and stuff in fullhd (medium graphics quality would be fine too, as long as the resolution fits, new moitor is native 1080p)till march

arrangemonk

Addition, is there a keyboard in the world that makes me write correctly?

Flaringo

How cheap?

The Radeon 4850 should be sufficient and fairly cheap these days.


About the keyboard; I have one.

EarthQuake

i've got a 8800 GT that i picked up for like $100, you may be able to find it for less even these days, runs everything i could think of great. You could try a 8600 or 7600 if you need to go really cheap.

newegg has some 9800s for near/less than $100 actually(only one 8800 which is $100)

MoP

I recently got an NVidia GTX275 because it's a lot cheaper than the 280 and actually out-performs it in most real-world tests (The 275 has a higher clock speed, but 128mb less texture memory - who needs 1gb texture memory anyway!?).

The ATI range are doing pretty well at the moment, as Flaringo says, the 4850 is not that expensive and very good.

vik

GTX275 here as well. Best bang for buck nvidia card.

arrangemonk

gtx 260 is about 150€ haround here
and
gtx 275 about 190(they seem not to have any of them anymore)-300€

and 285 doubles again,

is a 260 also good to go?
http://www.alternate.de/html/product/Grafikkarten_NVIDIA_GeForce_GTX/Gainward/GTX260_Golden_Sample/359142/?tn=HARDWARE&l1=Grafik&l2=PCIe-Karten+NVIDIA&l3=GeForce+GTX
i saw this one is cheaper than the others and is overcllocked

http://www.alternate.de/html/product/Grafikkarten_ATI_Radeon_HD4000/PowerColor/HD4850/360394/?tn=HARDWARE&l1=Grafik&l2=PCIe-Karten+ATI&l3=Radeon+HD4000
and the 4850 is really cheaper, now i really dont know what to choose

metalliandy

i would go 260 or 275 mate...though you are not going to find a bad card within the ones you have listed

Neox

i work with a 8800gt as well, works great with unreal

BlackulaDZ

i have a 260, they arent that expensive and handle unreal nicely, zbrush and max run fine too.

robioto

275 here also, had some weird drawing errors in the viewport with max using direct x 10 but those issues are gone using either open gl or dx 9.

No complaints other than that dx 10 issue, I don't think the 295 is worth it, would've bought 285s but there weren't any available from the manufacturers I was looking at and the 275s were cheaper anyway. I think it really boils down to how much you want to spend, you can get a great card like EQ and neox did for a small amount of money. If you're really interested in the 300 series why not get a 8800 or 9800 for the interim until what you really want is released?

EarthQuake

yeah the 8800 is a very very common card, which generally means you'll have pretty good support in every app for it, and if you plan on getting a new card soonish anyways, i would say go for the cheapest, decent card you can. a 8800/9800 will do eveything you need as long as you have a decent CPU/ram, and a 8600/9600 will likely cut it as well(just a little worse)

I'm not sure how the 260 compares to a 8800/9800 however, i would assume its pretty close? But what is the price difference there?

kaptainkernals

260 is quite a bit more powerful, if you do go for a 260 - don't get the standard 260.
Rather get the 260 core 216 - it's the same as the 260 except higher clocks, more cores - 216, as apposed to the 196 of the standard one. And 2ndly because it is actually cheaper than the standard 260.

It follows the same path as the 8800gt vs 8800gts of a couple years ago.

275 here as well btw - awesome card. personally have the msi twin frozr OC edition.

arrangemonk

thanks guys, i think i go for the gtx 260 or 48XX depending on money left at the end of the month

binopittan

EarthQuake wrote: »

You could try a 8600 or 7600 if you need to go really cheap.

please don't.. my 7600 cause nasty artifact on Marmo

CrazyButcher

for nvidia definitely not go below 8600! I have a 9600 at work and 8600 at home (all silent, low power draw). the 9800 GT probably is the last generation that had sane power consumption and enough brute force power...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units

has a nice overview on all chips and cards the interesting values are texel-fillrate, gflops and tdp.

similar table for ATI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units

SyncViewS

When it comes to choose a CPU or GPU, I just study and trust Tom's benchmarks.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/graphics-cards,1.html

binopittan

what the hell dude..

thomasp

CrazyButcher wrote: »

the 9800 GT probably is the last generation that had sane power consumption and enough brute force power...

indeed, that's another thing to consider, along with cooling and noise (fan) issues. i went with 9800 GT as well recently, still holding out for a card generation that will give at least a performance comparable to it's predecessor while reducing power draw, physical size and heat output.

arrangemonk

ok, i bought a club3d geforce 9800gt with 1024mb ram
it was 99,99€(at a local store, i had to buy it there, because im always nagging the guy there)