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Arclight · 01-05-12, 08:02 PM

No offense, but 550 is low-end, not mid-range. Once you go below that you get to the eh... "cheap" cards.

Bubblehead1980 · 01-06-12, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Arclight

No offense, but 550 is low-end, not mid-range. Once you go below that you get to the eh... "cheap" cards.

Whats a card that is worth the investment? That will play COD and pretty much any other current game.

seaniam81 · 01-06-12, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Arclight

No offense, but 550 is low-end, not mid-range. Once you go below that you get to the eh... "cheap" cards.

No offense taken. But the 550Ti is marketed as a mid-range card.

Arclight · 01-06-12, 09:18 PM

There's currently no model sitting below it, apart from the OEM ones. Calling the cheapest card in the 500 series "mid-range" is just false/misleading advertising.

I'd stick with a 460/560, or preferably 560Ti (there's even a special model with 448 cores, with practically makes it a 570). Literally twice card, no worries whether it can handle a game for the next 2-3 years, at least.

But yeah, the things are expensive. Just need to decide how much pretty you want; using a 460 myself and when I install a new game the first thing I do is simply push all the sliders up (keep anti-aliasing at 4x though, 1680x1050), see how it runs. More often than not it runs just peachy, at most you need to dial a few settings back to get it a bit smoother.

There's other things to consider though: specifically what CPU and power supply you have. No point putting in a better graphics card if the rest can't keep up.

elephantium · 01-07-12, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Arclight

false/misleading advertising.

You have a redundancy in your post...

seaniam81 · 01-07-12, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by elephantium

You have a redundancy in your post...

Yes, yes he does. But there is a 520, and 545. I saw them on the shelves besides the 550. But we digress. Best bet if you can find a 460 that's cheap get it! When I got my 550 all the others were another $100 more, and that was out of my price range because I still needed a PSU.

Arclight · 01-07-12, 05:33 AM

There's a 520, yes, but then you're talking entry level. Those things can barely play HD video, let alone run a modern game. For comparison, a GT 520 has 48 cores, a GTX 550 Ti has 192 and a GTX 460/560 has 336 (384 for 560 Ti, making it literally twice the card as the 550 Ti, the GTX imho is really a misnomer). Depending on who you ask, a 460/560 can still be considered low-end (personally I'd say mid-range, with 570 taking high-end and 580 'enthusiast' segments, but you could argue that with the 560 Ti being about, a 460/560 is indeed low-ish for a modern card).

The 545 is an OEM card and shouldn't be on shelves.

And yeah, bit of a redundancy... especially since we're talking Nvidia. How these companies aren't sued into bankruptcy I'll never know.

01-05-12, 08:02 PM	#1
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	No offense, but 550 is low-end, not mid-range. Once you go below that you get to the eh... "cheap" cards. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

01-06-12, 09:18 PM	#4
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	There's currently no model sitting below it, apart from the OEM ones. Calling the cheapest card in the 500 series "mid-range" is just false/misleading advertising. I'd stick with a 460/560, or preferably 560Ti (there's even a special model with 448 cores, with practically makes it a 570). Literally twice card, no worries whether it can handle a game for the next 2-3 years, at least. But yeah, the things are expensive. Just need to decide how much pretty you want; using a 460 myself and when I install a new game the first thing I do is simply push all the sliders up (keep anti-aliasing at 4x though, 1680x1050), see how it runs. More often than not it runs just peachy, at most you need to dial a few settings back to get it a bit smoother. There's other things to consider though: specifically what CPU and power supply you have. No point putting in a better graphics card if the rest can't keep up. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

01-07-12, 05:33 AM	#7
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	There's a 520, yes, but then you're talking entry level. Those things can barely play HD video, let alone run a modern game. For comparison, a GT 520 has 48 cores, a GTX 550 Ti has 192 and a GTX 460/560 has 336 (384 for 560 Ti, making it literally twice the card as the 550 Ti, the GTX imho is really a misnomer). Depending on who you ask, a 460/560 can still be considered low-end (personally I'd say mid-range, with 570 taking high-end and 580 'enthusiast' segments, but you could argue that with the 560 Ti being about, a 460/560 is indeed low-ish for a modern card). The 545 is an OEM card and shouldn't be on shelves. And yeah, bit of a redundancy... especially since we're talking Nvidia. How these companies aren't sued into bankruptcy I'll never know. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.