New GRFX card advice:

Hey people,

I'm thinking of upgrading my graphics card(s) sometime after Christmas (as one of my GX2's is slowly dying now i'm stuck with 1 98GX2) and am deciding on a few options I would like some opinions on.

a) 2 Nvidia GTX275's (AKA GTX295) $600 for the 2

b) 1 GXT295 $750 (takes me back to the GX2 day's)

c) Or I swing the other way and go for an ATI card, but I cannot take advantage of Crossfire technology as i'm running a Nvidia chipset. so it would have to be a high end card to make it worth it IMO, probably the 5850 $400 as the 5870 is almost $600.

I'm pretty rapped up on a pair of GXT275's, if I do run 2 of them, I will virtually have a GTX295 BUT with OpenGL 3.0 opposed to older OpenGL 2.1 on the GTX295.

So this is a 'best bang for your buck' / future proof attempt of a question for opinion. thanks for any advice or comments

Rick.

IMO going to the other side ATI will provide you with a more future proof card. DX11 plus you can run 3 monitors from the 1 card and it supports eyefinity. Either of the Nvidia choices are good ones, but your still only going to have DX 10.1 support. Which is great since their isn't much out their now that DX 11 can take advantage of yet. Fabe

hm.... i'd try to get a 5870..... since it is as fast as the other options you listed.... if not........ a 5850 or the 275's

thefabe said:

IMO going to the other side ATI will provide you with a more future proof card. DX11 plus you can run 3 monitors from the 1 card and it supports eyefinity. Either of the Nvidia choices are good ones, but your still only going to have DX 10.1 support. Which is great since their isn't much out their now that DX 11 can take advantage of yet. Fabe

Probably the other thing i should mention is i like to use 3Dvision. not sure if ATI utilise that at all.

What is eyefinity? yeh dx10.1 and 11 are like multi-gpu rendering, hardly anything actually uses it yet.

Eyefinity AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology In Action - HotHardware 3d vision as far as I know is exculsive to Nvidia.

reghakr said:

a) 2 Nvidia GTX275's (AKA GTX295) $600 for the 2

I spent $399.00 on a cheap e=machine with a X-Fi Extreme 7.1 channel surround and the 8500 has HDMI out.

Seems like it would be much better and less pricey buying a pre-built machine considering all the other components ( and I assume their high-end components,, you'd have a better machine in the long run.

this is relevant how?...... just curious... not to be rude but did you read the first post?
he already has all the components he is upgrading his gpu...... and actually if you want a good computer its cheaper to build it yourself....
@bloke, true.... not many use dx11 yet.... but most of the new games will be dx11

reghakr said:

I'm just referring to the ridiculous cost of the two Nvidia GTX275's (AKA GTX295.

that's all

lol, just last year i got my 2 9800GX2's, they were the same price as the GTX295 @ $750ea! that was $1500 just on 2 cards alone..a year and half later, they are not even in production any more! how do you like that? lmao. but the GTX series for some reason i feel they will keep up longer than the 9,8,7 series cards.


swarfega

What is the ATI card like?will it stand games like farcry2 and fallout 3 maxed out settings? that is what i am aiming for, as i wont be able to run crossfire it will have to stand the latest games with high settings for me to be happy

thanks for your reply guys! its always helpful with a 2nd opinion. well off to work i go to make some dough! l8a