Graphics Cards...

HIS 4850 or Asus 9800GTX+?

HIS 4850 is $155 after rebate. Asus 9800GTX+ is $150 after rebate.

Whichever is cheapest or for the sake of $5 its your choice, they perform about the same, some games 1 is better some the other, its a swings and roundabouts choice really.

But what the hell I vote 4850

I usually go with Nvidia cards but ive not had much luck so im switching to ATI soon.

Whichever is cheapest or for the sake of $5 its your choice, they perform about the same, some games 1 is better some the other, its a swings and roundabouts choice really.

But what the hell I vote 4850

I usually go with Nvidia cards but ive not had much luck so im switching to ATI soon.

KurganUK23

Haven't had much luck? What does that mean?

[QUOTE="KurganUK23"]

Whichever is cheapest or for the sake of $5 its your choice, they perform about the same, some games 1 is better some the other, its a swings and roundabouts choice really.

But what the hell I vote 4850

I usually go with Nvidia cards but ive not had much luck so im switching to ATI soon.

hartsickdiscipl

Haven't had much luck? What does that mean?

2 out of 3 Nvidia cards ive owned have developed faults.

6600 - Faulty fan causing overheating and blew

7300GT - flawless

9600GSO - multiple faults, namely it cuts out when pushed in games

Hence not had much with Nvidia so time to give ATI a try

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"][QUOTE="KurganUK23"]

Whichever is cheapest or for the sake of $5 its your choice, they perform about the same, some games 1 is better some the other, its a swings and roundabouts choice really.

But what the hell I vote 4850

I usually go with Nvidia cards but ive not had much luck so im switching to ATI soon.

KurganUK23

Haven't had much luck? What does that mean?

2 out of 3 Nvidia cards ive owned have developed faults.

6600 - Faulty fan causing overheating and blew

7300GT - flawless

9600GSO - multiple faults, namely it cuts out when pushed in games

Hence not had much with Nvidia so time to give ATI a try

Fair enough.. However, my issues with nvidia cards have been isolated to one board manufacturer- EVGA. And even then, it was only with the first wave of 8800gt cards that they released. I'm certainly not working for or getting paid by Nvidia, but I bought a very similar card (current one) from BFG, and have been thrilled by it's performance and stability so far. I've had it for 9 months.

[QUOTE="KurganUK23"][QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

Haven't had much luck? What does that mean?

hartsickdiscipl

2 out of 3 Nvidia cards ive owned have developed faults.

6600 - Faulty fan causing overheating and blew

7300GT - flawless

9600GSO - multiple faults, namely it cuts out when pushed in games

Hence not had much with Nvidia so time to give ATI a try

Fair enough.. However, my issues with nvidia cards have been isolated to one board manufacturer- EVGA. And even then, it was only with the first wave of 8800gt cards that they released. I'm certainly not working for or getting paid by Nvidia, but I bought a very similar card (current one) from BFG, and have been thrilled by it's performance and stability so far. I've had it for 9 months.

Oh dont get me wrong im not gonna start saying stay away from Nvidia as I still own the dodgy 9600GSO and have considered getting the GTX260 (in fact as ive not ordered yet it depends on the day wether I click on 4870 or GTX260 lol)

Think its just been a lot of bad luck but im not saying ill never use Nvidia again and for everyone to stay away, I might even hate ATI and run straight back with my next card lol but as im an AMD fan thought it about time I tried 1 of the highly rated 4000 series ATI cards

I only buy NVIDIA, but you should buy what you like. 9800GT (not GTX) goes hard, so GTX must go sweet.

My sisters comp copped a 3dmark06 score of 6700 with a nvidia 9800GT, with only a Pentium D 3.2 and that card 3gb ddr2 ram..

On my set up it copped a score of 12200 ish.. (before I copped the 2x gtx 260's. Now I get about 14500 :) - but to be honest - $1000 bucks for a 2000 point increase is pretty ordinary, im a sour bastard) anyway back to the point, the 9800 GTX! would kick ass.

9800gtx+ wins..Benchmarksdarx55

Don't those games use nvidia engines when they were made....?