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SUBMAN1 · 06-04-09, 09:59 PM

I'd disagree with any of these recommendations. The 4770 is the card to get for the $99 range. The 4870 can even be had for $170. So it depends on how much money you want to spend.

You only problem is, you would be CPU limited so your video card will be starved for something to do, so I'd forego getting anything better than the 4770.

This should tell you what you need to know. It is faster than a 9800GT for only a double digit price:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3553&p=5

This article from Tom's will help you pick a card for a 'price range' - either NVidia or ATI depending on what you want to spend:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...cs,2296-2.html

Remember that there is no NVidia board that supports DX10.1 yet. They barely do more than DX9 since MS had to break the cool features of DX10 to support what NVidia can't do. All the recent ATI cards do however with full DX10 and DX10.1 support and they even have tessellation built in (A DX11 thing) - something NVidia still can't do on any of it (They are in trouble BTW). NVidia tries to make up for it by offering physics and CUDA, but both are worthless because no programmer will write for proprietary code unless NVidia pays them a boatload of money.

So take your pick.

-S

PS. This article will spell out from a technical perspective the bad position NVidia is in - http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...-borders-truth

06-04-09, 09:59 PM	#8
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I'd disagree with any of these recommendations. The 4770 is the card to get for the $99 range. The 4870 can even be had for $170. So it depends on how much money you want to spend. You only problem is, you would be CPU limited so your video card will be starved for something to do, so I'd forego getting anything better than the 4770. This should tell you what you need to know. It is faster than a 9800GT for only a double digit price: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3553&p=5 This article from Tom's will help you pick a card for a 'price range' - either NVidia or ATI depending on what you want to spend: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...cs,2296-2.html Remember that there is no NVidia board that supports DX10.1 yet. They barely do more than DX9 since MS had to break the cool features of DX10 to support what NVidia can't do. All the recent ATI cards do however with full DX10 and DX10.1 support and they even have tessellation built in (A DX11 thing) - something NVidia still can't do on any of it (They are in trouble BTW). NVidia tries to make up for it by offering physics and CUDA, but both are worthless because no programmer will write for proprietary code unless NVidia pays them a boatload of money. So take your pick. -S PS. This article will spell out from a technical perspective the bad position NVidia is in - http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...-borders-truth __________________