[scrivener07]

MMky I have a Foxconn Motherboard Here and a 120$ budget give or take. What are you guys using and what would you suggest. obviously I want the most bang for my buck and it is for a budget gaming pc running Windows XP Pro - soon to upgrade to win 7 when its been out for a month or two.

[Illiad86]

$120 huh? Hmm...you could probably get a 4870 at that nowadays...nice card.

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814150441

or the new 5000 series one

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814102859

little bit over your budget but very godly cards for the price. $120 can get you a pretty nice card

If you wanna go for Nvidia, you can get a 9800GT or a GTS 250, but the ATI cards there you can get for the price blow those out of the water.

[scrivener07]

ooo excellent suggestions! I should also upgrade my cooling. I only got a single stock fan and it runs a little on the warm side. Thanks. Btw I have VGA monitors. whats the loss of using a VGA to DVI adapter? I already use one for my second monitor and there just doesn't seem to be any loss of quality? Just want to be informed.

[The_Terminator]

It depends on the size of your monitor. With larger monitors, VGA supposedly gets a bit blurry, whereas DVI remains crisp. There shouldn't be any loss from using an adapter, unless the screen is around 20" or bigger (probably bigger).

[Illiad86]

I've never noticed any blurry with my 21" CRT going through a DVI adapter. It was a professional grade monitor back in the day though. Haha, this thing is HUGE, has to weigh almost 100lbs.

yes, those are nice. Please make sure you have a sufficient power supply and adequate case cooling for those. My friend has a 4870 and it's quite the cooker...but I think he improperly applied the thermal grease for some reason. I gotta look at it lol. I would suggest the 5000 series one as it's newer and uses less power. But, I'm not one to go and buy the newest things out. I just buy last years model normally because it's still godly and it's affordable

[Thor.]

Illiad86, on Oct 12 2009, 11:51 PM, said:

$120 huh? Hmm...you could probably get a 4870 at that nowadays...nice card.

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814150441

or the new 5000 series one

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814102859

little bit over your budget but very godly cards for the price. $120 can get you a pretty nice card

If you wanna go for Nvidia, you can get a 9800GT or a GTS 250, but the ATI cards there you can get for the price blow those out of the water.

The radeon 5000 is only 128bit?, is that corect, thats not very high. I would go with the 9000gtx2 myself, higher bus speeds.

something like this, its 200$ though.

http://www.tigerdire...a...&CatId=3669

or get the geforce 260, the price is not correct on this page. They price there own.

http://www.tigerdire...a...&CatId=3669

[scrivener07]

Thanks everyone Im going to go with the 4870 thanks for the input guys.

[Wis3boi]

I have a Sapphire 4870 1gb, and it's the best piece of PC hardware I have EVER purchased...well, that and a dual core CPU 3 years ago


the 4870 makes my old 8800 GTX look like garbage

[spammster]

I'm using a Phenom II X4 3Ghz (OC to 3.4 Ghz) on a Foxconn board

I'm using a HD 4870 1 GB with 8 GB of RAM and I'm loving it, no matter what game i start, max. details everything and it results in very nice FPS and damn good loading times.

and the 4870 is still well beyond good enough for gaming of latest games.

I don't see the point in spending several 100 bucks, every other month for a new graphic card. slightly older cards work just as good for gaming.

[Dark0ne]

+1 to the 4870 lovers out there. The 4870 was my first ATi card in about 5 years, since I got the 9800 Radeon Pro, and I'm very happy with it. The price is brilliant, which is really what ATi need to be working on to compete with the quite overpriced Nvidia cards at the moment. No point going for any other card right now, since DX11 will be coming in with Windows 7 in the next month and the DX11 cards will need a bit of time to be tweaked for good performance on the market.