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Pivo504

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What is the best video card to buy if you are on a budget but still want something powerful and overclock able??
 
$50-100 HD4850,9800GT $100-200 HD 5770,GTX 460 1gb (if you can get it for 200) $200-300 GTX 470 (try looking for the magic 300 dollar mark), HD5850 $300-400 GTX 470, HD5870 <$400 HD5890 or go sli or cfx with the above cards
 
Resolution? Vague questions without hard budgets and resolutions (and CPUs if CPU limited) are unanswerable.
 
RageVI said:
Everyone is on a budget :p What's yours?
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lloose said:
Kind of a useless question without knowing what your budget is.
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blastingcap said:
Resolution? Vague questions without hard budgets and resolutions (and CPUs if CPU limited) are unanswerable.
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+1 to this. In addition, useless question if the PSU is unknown.

So Pivo504, we need to know the following:
- What PSU?
- What resolution?
- What CPU?
- What's the budget?
 
peanutskeeter said:
Has anyone every used an ASUS grpx card? I had a pair of 5870s for a while and hated them, the drivers were ridiculous on them. Took me forever to get them tweaked so that they would operate as they should.
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What made the drivers ridiculous? You were using the drivers from Nvidia.com and not from Asus' website right?
 
peanutskeeter said:
Has anyone every used an ASUS grpx card? I had a pair of 5870s for a while and hated them, the drivers were ridiculous on them. Took me forever to get them tweaked so that they would operate as they should.
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Never, never, NEVER use drivers that come from Asus, or XFX, or whoever the hell you buy your card from. *ALWAYS* use drivers direct from nvidia or ATI.

Otherwise you are just waiting a really long time for Asus or whoever to do a copy/paste. They don't modify the driver any, it's the same driver you get from ATI - just takes longer to get.

Besides, the title is "video card that is awesome" - how many other cards come in a locking metal briefcase? Seriously, that's just plain awesome.
 
- What PSU? My PSU is a OCZ 420watt or 500watt how can I find out?
- What resolution? I need a video card that can push native res of a 22-24 inch monitor well with games such as Supreme Commander, Starcraft 2, and upcoming FPS shooters
- What CPU? A dual core or quad core CPU depending upon the price.
- What's the budget? My budget is 1500 but Id like to buy most of the parts used if I can.
 
you dont really provide enough info. for 1500 im going to assume you are building a new system in which case you can just toss that 420w PSU and buy a new one. with that kind of budget you could build an i7 system with a gtx480 or radeon 5870.
 
The "awesome" thing to do right now that should probably fit in your budget is GTX460 SLI. The two games you mentioned happen to be CPU hogs, so you'll want a quad-core CPU.
 
Pivo504 said:
- What PSU? My PSU is a OCZ 420watt or 500watt how can I find out?
- What resolution? I need a video card that can push native res of a 22-24 inch monitor well with games such as Supreme Commander, Starcraft 2, and upcoming FPS shooters
- What CPU? A dual core or quad core CPU depending upon the price.
- What's the budget? My budget is 1500 but Id like to buy most of the parts used if I can.
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- OCZ? More than likely, you're gonna have to get a new PSU. You can find out what PSU you have by opening up your PC and looking inside of it
- Yeah, you're gonna have to narrow down the monitor size as very different cards are recommended for those monitor sizes

Wazooty said:
is that the budget for the entire build? half of it? What?
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It looks like he's going for a full build:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1537423
 
ATI 9700 pro or Nvidia 6800gt FTW@@@!!!!! xD

In all seriousness, please fill out Danny Bui's Build Help questionnaire. :)
 
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