Thinking about upgrading my G card

teamhex

teamhex

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So I was thinking about selling my Visontek 4870 to one of my friends and throwing some more money down for a more powerful card. I was wondering how much I might be able to get for it, and for around $260 whats the most powerful card I could get? That and is it even worth upgrading right now?
 
ScOuT said:
For that price range the GTX 275 would be a good choice. It has good performance for a mid $200 card. It out runs the 4890 in almost every benchmark and will walk on the 4870.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130475


Here is a couple good articles on the performance of new cards.
http://www.techspot.com/review/164-radeon-4890-vs-geforce-gtx275/

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/04/03/radeon-hd-4890-vs-geforce-gtx-275/1
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Thanks man
 
I'd probably hold back for now, I mean, the 4870 isn't exactly a bad card, in fact, it's pretty awesome. I'd keep it, do you really need a better card, are there games you can't play?

If you save that $200 and then whatever else in the future, when a new card comes out, jump all over that. At least that way it'd probably be a worth while purchase.

I was thinking of selling my 8800's and upgrading to a GTX260 or something like it, I had to stop myself and think about it. My 8800's are probably about the same as GTX280, so there wouldn't be any point. They're older cards, but they keep up with the newer ones, they just seem 'old'.


Hang on to it, man! ;)
 
Kornowski said:
I'd probably hold back for now, I mean, the 4870 isn't exactly a bad card, in fact, it's pretty awesome. I'd keep it, do you really need a better card, are there games you can't play?

If you save that $200 and then whatever else in the future, when a new card comes out, jump all over that. At least that way it'd probably be a worth while purchase.

I was thinking of selling my 8800's and upgrading to a GTX260 or something like it, I had to stop myself and think about it. My 8800's are probably about the same as GTX280, so there wouldn't be any point. They're older cards, but they keep up with the newer ones, they just seem 'old'.


Hang on to it, man! ;)
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Thats kind of what I was thinking. The performance jump has to be there for me to spend the money.
 
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