What Video Card should I Get? (Radeon HD 4870)

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dwmcc

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Hey Guys -

I'm building my own Gaming PC and I want a really GREAT video card for it. I want it to be able to handle Crysis on full quality!

Can you suggest a VERY GOOD video card?

I'm looking at the one below and it looks pretty good. Is that true?
Radeon HD 4870 1GB (PCI) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150395

**NOTE:** The video cards that you suggest need to be compatible with this motherboard: ECS BLACK SERIES GF8200A (V1.0) AM2+/AM3 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...C-Bleeping&cm_mmc=AFC-Bleeping-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA


Thanks!
-dwmcc
 
dwmcc said:
Hey Guys -

I'm building my own Gaming PC and I want a really GREAT video card for it. I want it to be able to handle Crysis on full quality!

Can you suggest a VERY GOOD video card?

I'm looking at the one below and it looks pretty good. Is that true?
Radeon HD 4870 1GB (PCI) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150395

**NOTE:** The video cards that you suggest need to be compatible with this motherboard: ECS BLACK SERIES GF8200A (V1.0) AM2+/AM3 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...C-Bleeping&cm_mmc=AFC-Bleeping-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA


Thanks!
-dwmcc
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ya its a good one,
 
Nice card, not sure it will handle crysis on full though. May want to try 4890, though I'm not sure this will run crysis on full either. Perhaps wait till the 4890x2 comes out, soon as you can't go crossfire/sli
 
Couple things I'd like to mention. First of all, Crysis is a poorly coded ( IF gorgeous) piece of software, that uses potentially powerful hardware in a very poor fashion. Despite everyone using it as a staple for computing power, its really a terrible judge of how good a component is. A card that will have trouble with Crysis, may run any other game you play with all the eye candy you want without a hitch. Another thing to consider is that the rest of your components have to be very high end to completely max out this game, We're talking fast ram, and at least a quad core. You can play it well and good below this, I'm just going your criteria of totally maxed out. Another is that Crysis, amongst many other games, have a card company bias. So in this case, an nVidia card of equal or lesser power may actually run the game significantly better than its ATI counterpart. This applies to many games and not always to nVdia's benefit, but it is something to keep in mind if you're dead set on this one game in particular. Finally, you'll need about a GTX295 to come close to maxing it out (or two 4890's, which is the rough equivalent of the 295) Now to round all my rambling off, the 4870 is a great card, the 4890 even more so:P
 
My ndvidia 275 can handle crysis on max settings... well the first half of the game, i'm not sure about the snowed in island part, I remember that part being a bitch on my old card!
 
Well if I might add this.

If your going to buy that card its gonna cost around $170 after shipping I would go with this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150394


It is the EXACT card even the heatsink is the same...the only difference is they are charging you $25 for a slightly overclocked version + your paying shipping.

You can always overclock the card to the one you want to buys specs easily enough.

Just my thought.
 
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