best gpu to go for

Mid price range? Could you narrow that amount down? To say like actual dollars? I ask because I was just on Neweggs site and their 4890's are more than their 5XXX series cards. Fabe Newegg.com - Video Cards, NVIDIA Video Card, ATI Video Cards, AGP Video Cards, GeForce Video Card, Radeon Video Card

That's pounds to dollars right? If so you gotta be kidding me .XE.com: GBP to USD rate: 250.00 GBP = 412.675 USD

I'd go with a Nvidia card because the W7 API can use the card for a number of things to help performance besides gaming.

As for a card with some muscle I'd go with the EVGA GTX275 WTF Edition.

GeForce GTX 275 Core Clock 713 MHz Shader Clock 1512 MHz Stream Processors 240 Processor Cores Memory Memory Clock 2520 MHz Memory Size 896MB Memory Interface 448-bit Memory Type DDR3 3D API DirectX DirectX 10 OpenGL OpenGL 3.0 Ports DVI 2 x DVI TV-Out HDTV Out

MUff1N said:

I'd go with a Nvidia card because the W7 API can use the card for a number of things to help performance besides gaming.

As for a card with some muscle I'd go with the EVGA GTX275 WTF Edition.

GeForce GTX 275 Core Clock 713 MHz Shader Clock 1512 MHz Stream Processors 240 Processor Cores Memory Memory Clock 2520 MHz Memory Size 896MB Memory Interface 448-bit Memory Type DDR3 3D API DirectX DirectX 10 OpenGL OpenGL 3.0 Ports DVI 2 x DVI TV-Out HDTV Out

um...... why go for something that slow? with is budget a HD5870 would be a perfect fit.... and remember.... its dx11
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102856
also..... what site will you be buying your card from?
that is if your cpu won't bottleneck this

We need to remeber he's not in the US, so his choices are more limited. Thus the site or store you purchased your card from will come into play as far a what they have to offer you. As for bottlenecking an Intel core 2 duo 2.93Hz and 4 gigs of 1066 I wouldn't think so. Not to mention if a 4890 cost 412.00 U.S. dollars I can't imagaine what a 5870 would cost him in pounds.

i'm pretty sure that wasn't how much his card was... thats just his budget...... he should be able to find one for about 225 pounds
and yes about the limited choices.... but he should be able to find one