Computer Upgrade Time, Part II

If budget is not an issue, go nVidia. ATI are loud, power consuming and fucking hot (temperature, hurr), but they do perform.

It's really a matter of budget with something like this. If you can get the top of the line nVidia card that may perform similar to one of the top of the line ATIs, you may as well go nVidia because they're actually more reliable cards, and not big bulky overheating cards like ATI.

One of the 200 series will do fine. The 295 might still too expensive. I dont know about prices in America, are they reasonable

Go for a 5870 if you can find one. It's better than the 285, and pretty close to the same price.

Sorry, the 285 is almost the top of the line nvidia graphics card (of their newest generation), while the 5870 is ATIs newest graphics card, which performs better than the 285, and is a bit worse than the 295 in some areas (difference is very little). I'll find some benchmarks when I get home from school. Also, I'm saying ATI.

KrAzY wrote:Nvidias are more expensive but are 10x more reliable and are more powerful

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/ati_radeon_5870_fastest_videocard_ever_ps_its_380?page=0,2
Some benchmarks showing that the 5870 beats the 285.

http://forums.ocworkbench.com/showthread.php?t=89780
Some benchmarks of the 5870 vs the 295 (remember that the 5870 was just released, while the 295 has had almost a year to work on drivers, so the 5870 is only gonna get faster than the 295 as time progresses). Also, the 5870 supports Dx11.

i dont think you can get the vanilla 280 any more or do you mean the 285

oh, there arent in Australia any more