Tomination, buy a gtx 560ti. Preferably a factory overclocked version because they have custom coolers. My gtx 460 by gigabyte has a custom cooler and it has performed exceptionally. The HD 5850 was succeeded by the HD6950, not the HD6870.
Big Tom, yes it will do nicely for your use.
You mentioned BSODS.
maybe I missed something, but are you sure they caused by the GPU?
If not, it may be worth checking into whats causing it. Otherwise, you'll get a new GPU and still have the Blus Screen problem.
If you do not know for certain, it may be worth posting in the BSOD section of the forums to have someone help you isolate the cause.
its alright for media but for gaming its meh i had to overclock it to be enjoyable at higher settings in gaming anyways its not ment for gaming only reseaon i have it is because it came with this pc that i bought because of the good price for having a quad core 3.0ghz with 4gb ram and 1tb hdd anyways i plan on replacing this card soon for me
For strictly media purposes something off the electronics shelf at walmart will do fine.
Current codecs rely a lot more on cpu power than graphics power to provide a hd image.
Regardless it doesn't change the fact the best media image I get comes out of my 4 year old laptop with intel graphics.
Both my high end nvidia and mid-high end ati card require color tweaking for almost every video played on them.
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