285 equal or better

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setscrew

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My friend's BFG 285 is dying a slow death (e.g. frequent white screens, occasional driver stop working error). What would you recommend as a replacement.

He would like to keep it an nVidia product to minimize driver issues.

My line of thinking is a 460 or 470.

His system.
screen: 24" 1920x1200
Corsair HX620
e8400 OCed to 3.3
8GB RAM (Photoshop user)
3 hard drives
ASUS Xonar DX sound
Win 7 64

Frequent gamer

He does not want to build new system yet.

TIA
 
If he is willing to pay the price of a GTX 470, why not buy a GTX 560Ti? According to the Anandtech bench, the outperforms it by a small margin.
 
The 460 1gb is roughly a replacement, but it won't be an upgrade really.

I feel the 560 is a better choice over the 470, going by current Newegg prices, unless you are getting different prices of course.
 
I agree about the 560 (although he was hoping for around $200). I did not examine pricing on the 560 until after the OP. He does foresee a new build in Q1 of 2012, so a 560 could be carried over and expect to do well.
 
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