Your card of choice in 2008

What is your card of the year?

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I bought a GTX260, but voted for the 4850. I think it redefined price/performance for the majority of gamers running below 1920x1200/1080p res.
 
The 4870 did in my opinion. Otherwise we would see the GTX 260 at 400 dollars and the 280 at 550 dollars or more.
 
4850 should get the vote for sure.

Not because its the best card, but because it was a revolutionary card that brought bang/buck back and forced Nvidia to lower their sky-high prices.
 
SLI'd 260 Core 216's....I'm using them now and I don't see anything changing in the near future...
 
GTX 260 (192). After the price war started it became the card to have in that range - better frame buffer than the HD 4870 512 MB and easy to OC with its better stock cooling. With a healthy overclock it made the vanilla GTX 280 something of a moot point on the majority of systems.
 
4870x2. What a suprise for me!

I was an old NVidia fan since the first day, but my GTX280 was a POS... I had so many problems with the drivers... and it was really lagging behind the 4870x2 performance wise in the games I play... So I made the switch and never looked back... :)
 
LEVESQUE said:
4870x2. What a suprise for me!

I was an old NVidia fan since the first day, but my GTX280 was a POS... I had so many problems with the drivers... and it was really lagging behind the 4870x2 performance wise in the games I play... So I made the switch and never looked back... :)
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Yeah it was a shame how bad the older Nvidia drivers were. The newest drivers though? Night and Day.
 
IMO manually overclocked GTX 260 192SP.

One nice thing though is nVidia have stopped making those cores so if you order a vanilla GTX 260 you may still end up with a Core 216 GPU. I ordered two EVGA GTX 260s from Newegg and had just that thing happen to me.
 
9800 GT due to the free AGP to PCIe upgrade BFG did. Otherwise I would have waited for the 55nm 280 equivalent.
 
HD4870x2, was gonna jump on the GTX 260 192.

I paid less than a GTX 260 216 at the time for my X2, who the hell would pass that up?
 
SLI'd 280s times 2. :) QX9650 powers one box. Q9550 powers the secondary setup.
Great gaming and F@H work horses.
 
4850/4830 for sure. First time in a while we've had that much performance at an affordable price.
 
Proud owned MSI GTX 260 OC (192)

Clock 620 mhz, Memory 1058 mhz, Shader 1296 mhz out of box.

phatbx133
 
Sojuuk said:
youd be shocked how much ~100 gets you with a 4830.
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The problem is it sucks a lot sooner then a higher end card.

I just hate replacing videocards. It seems to be the part that's most DOA.

My 6600GT was fine, my first 7800GT worked for one night. The second had a broken fancontrol. My first 7900GTX worked for one week, the second is fine.
GTX260 is waiting on my desk... if it's DOA I'm freaking out.
 
Nah, low on memory on higher resolutions, high power usage, two cards = 2^2 more problems. No thanks.

Anyway, GTX 260 leads the polls.

GTX260 192 and 216 votes combined comes to 38. HD4870 512MB +1GB votes combined comes to 14
 
had 8800gt sli, 8800gts g92 sli, 9800gx2 quad, 9800gtx sli (on secondary system), hd4870 cf, and hd4850x2. hands down, for performance, lack of sound, heat or issues, and price/performance the hd4850 wins. second to 9800gx2 quad for sheer balls. if it had 1gb memory each gpu, it would still rule.
 
4800 series, really put ati back, and dropped nvidia on its face.(a much needed wakeup call)
 
I still game on 1280x1024, so the 4850 suits me really well. the performance it delivered at this resolution is awesome! :D
 
The 48XX architecture deserves to win this year.

NVIDIA created a monster with the 2XX serie. The pricing revision (twice!) and the TWIMTBP program saved NVIDIA in 2008 (there is also free candy such as the Far Cry 2 free game promotion).
Do not get me wrong, I bought many NVIDIA video cards in the past and I am looking forward for the 3XX serie. Let's just hope that they have learned from their mistake.
 
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