Video card upgrade

reghakr said:

There have been so many problems with ATI cards,. I wouldn't use one if if was given to me.

like? can you name a few over the past three months?

Jester45 said:

Hello I recently built a new computer but used an old pcie x1650 radeon card. The card can play most of my games at decent frame rates. The negative part is that it seems to have a hardware flaw that forces me to put the computer into sleep and wake it up to resolve. its not a driver or motherboard thing as it does the same thing on winxp with a different motherboard.

I would like to buy a new nvidia card for about 250 USD im looking at the GTX 260 or 275 but im not sure what would give me the most performance. My motherboard is sli compatible but i dont want to buy the 2nd now. so im hoping to get one that i could buy a 2nd of the same type later.

thanks for any comments as im really stuck on which to choose.

ok yes a 275 if you want to stick on nvidia, or wait for the 300 series....

reghakr said:

Didn't look over the initial #1 post carefully

I seen he was talking about a Radeon card.

And even if he wanted one, Radeon cards aren't bad, I was actually thinking of getting one instead of nvidia this time. But since I don't want to run the risk of Linux problems I'm going to wait for a bit. Radeon is very good, and no disrespect, but I just think Nvidia is better.

mushroomboy said:

reghakr said:

Didn't look over the initial #1 post carefully

I seen he was talking about a Radeon card.

And even if he wanted one, Radeon cards aren't bad, I was actually thinking of getting one instead of nvidia this time. But since I don't want to run the risk of Linux problems I'm going to wait for a bit. Radeon is very good, and no disrespect, but I just think Nvidia is better.

actually its Linux support is much better i had no problems at all with mine except when i tried to use ubuntu studio for some reason it didn't like my driver.... but ubuntu 9.10 works awesome

Well once the 300's come out everything else should drop a little as the card specs shift, and then probably another 3 months after that once they get different 300 series cards made

after the 300's come out maybe.... maybe not...

ThePizzaMan said:

after the 300's come out maybe.... maybe not...

when they come out prices will drop no matter what as the 200 series become the mid range, it's just standard marketing. Your not going to pay "top dollar" for the new mid range card? I wouldn't, I'd be angry.