Graphic card suggestions? Thread

Hey, I don't know if this is in the wrong section but if it is I apologize in advance.

Any who, I recently had the need to get a new graphics card because the one I am currently using (an Ati Radeon Hd 3440), isn't exactly up to snuff for gaming and I have recently been having crashes and I figure a new graphics card would be a good start.
So I'm wondering if there are any good graphic cards that anyone could suggest.

Thanks,

The most expensive one

Ha I would if I had the money...

The best to suggest that is VERY powerful and quite cheap is the ATI Radeon 5770.

Knowing your CPU and motherboard might be relevant. No use recommending something too modern if it will just be throttled by the rest of the system.

Also, a budget.

I have a pretty recent Motherboard, and my CPU is an AMD Phenom Quad Core running at 2.20 ghz.
I was looking at the Radeon 6850. Would anyone recommend that?

I just recently got an ATI Radeon 5670 HD card for 60$, and it's pretty good. It can run everything I've tried on highest settings, including UDK.

6850 is awesome price/performance, but we'll need to know about your power supply before I can recommend anything.

Doh! Yeah, that as well. It's a long time since I did a build.....

ATI radeon 5870 = beast

I'd find the one that was the best ~a year or so ago & if it's under $200, get that one.

figalot wrote: ATI radeon 5870 = beast

Made obsolete by the 6950

TheHappyFriar wrote: I'd find the one that was the best ~a year or so ago & if it's under $200, get that one.

Better to get something current. Newer cards have better power efficiency and performance/dollar.

Also, can an overheating graphics card possibly break a motherboard? Because I've already had a motherboard go on this computer already although I'd just assumed it was shipped defective.

asvigny wrote: Also, can an overheating graphics card possibly break a motherboard?

If it's overheated enough and it begins to melt I'd be more worried about my desk catching on fire

nvidia 9800 gtx+ is a good one even tough its only 512 mb it has 256bit so its more powerful than most mid-end 1gb's

asvigny wrote: Also, can an overheating graphics card possibly break a motherboard? Because I've already had a motherboard go on this computer already although I'd just assumed it was shipped defective.

Sure they can. But your gcard will never overheat unless:
-You OC it
-The air flow in your chassis is very, VERY, bad
-The GPU fan doesn't get any power

Edited by: Nightshade

In AMD Overdrive, if the slider on the clock speed is set to the max speed (or almost), it would be overclocked right? Because I'm pretty sure it was at least a little overclocked...

asvigny wrote: In AMD Overdrive, if the slider on the clock speed is set to the max speed (or almost), it would be overclocked right?

More like overscrewed, don't mess with that unless you know what you're doing, that's not how overclocking works.

I'd like this topic to get back on track if possible. I don't mean to highjack but I've been planning on upgrading my graphics card aswell for dx11 support.

Atmo I've got a Radeon 4850 and I'm looking at improvements but there are so many new numbers its hard to decide. I was also looking at the 6850/6870 like the op, but then there are still the 58xx's which are all a similar sort of price, anyone got any advice?

My power supply is xigmatek 600w. Processor is an amd Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2ghz, 8gb ram. Most of the graphical things I will be doing is content creation for UDK, so it needs to be able to support testing with no problems and in some cases I'd like to be able to play future direct x11 games in 1920x1080 with decent frame rates.

Converted my budget so probably $160-$250 and £100-£150 max (how I dream of spending $800 on a graphics card). Though if cheaper, just-as-good options are available then I'll be glad to hear them.

Edited by: Tetsuo3

I got the exact build as yours Tetsuo3, I just got my build 3 days ago. Same cpu and ram with a MSI Geforce 560 ti. The card is 240 and the cpu and mobo cost about 300 in a bundle, ram is about 80 bucks. So all in all, with a new case, hdd and a 750W psu it came to about 850+tax.

The 560 was benchmarked a little higher than the 6870 but the 6870 here is 200-210 dollars, but I lean toward amd for cpu and nvidia for v cards.

Amazon.com

get that card

Yeah that's one up from the one I ended up ordering.
The one I chose was the ATi Radeon HD 6850.

So I'd just like to say that the ATi HD 6850 work extremely well and I've had to issues whatsoever with fps in any of my games.