it depends how much you want to spend, and what you want to do with it, just find the cheapest card that will max that game and suports the resolution you play on and get that one
[QUOTE="Phoenix534"]I just got a new computer for my birthday, but I have to have a new video card to play Company of Heroes. Which card is better?superchronik
Both companies have great cards at different price ranges. Whats your budget?
Not a lot. I saw a $100 Nvidia GeForce 9400 at Best Buy and was thinking about getting it. Is it a good one?
no that's not a good card. if you're looking to game, always look for series that ends with like a 600 or above. so say 8 or 9 series. i would go with 8800 or 9800.
[QUOTE="Phoenix534"]I just got a new computer for my birthday, but I have to have a new video card to play Company of Heroes. Which card is better?Phoenix534
Both companies have great cards at different price ranges. Whats your budget?
Not a lot. I saw a $100 Nvidia GeForce 9400 at Best Buy and was thinking about getting it. Is it a good one?
Don't get that card.Get the 9600gt,9800gt or 4850 if you can get a little more cash.
[QUOTE="Phoenix534"]I just got a new computer for my birthday, but I have to have a new video card to play Company of Heroes. Which card is better?Phoenix534
Both companies have great cards at different price ranges. Whats your budget?
Not a lot. I saw a $100 Nvidia GeForce 9400 at Best Buy and was thinking about getting it. Is it a good one?
No not really :P If you can't stretch to a 4850 then you can get a 4670 on newegg for like 80 bucks. Miles better than a 9400GT.
There is no correct answer for your question.... But don't buy from any department stores, they're a rip-off. Use Newegg or Tigerdirect. Even, Amazon is better. The 9400 at Newegg run for around 50 dollars after mail-in rebate. Although, if you wanna play games, I'd stay away from that low budget card; probably no better than what you already have.
There are good gpu's from both sides . nvidia has 3 insane gpu such as gtx 295, gtx 280 , gtx 285. Ati only has 4870x2 and is beaten by the 3 nvidia cards , but my choice for 250$ gpu would be 4870 (single). 300$ gtx 260 core 216. 400 -500$ hd 4870 x2. 500$ gtx 295.500$+ gtx295 x2.
I didnt really look at benchies when I bought my card. I go on what I want from a card and thats value for money. So I bought an HIS ATI 4670 1GB as a opposed to a 9600GT 512mb.
hi all. im gearing up for diablo3. which of these is a better gaming card? im just choossing from hd4870 and gtx260. they're not the top of the line card but that's only what i can afford. thx.
what is better for watching blu-ray DVD , and other HD video and content?
What is better for video editing?
What is better for video encoding?
what is better for graphics software software?
Neubauer4
This totally depends on the budjet you have. For videoediting/encoding a dedicated card for this particular purpose would be best, but mainly any card will do fine. As for graphic software i don't think there is so many apps, thats mostly to the profesional cards, witch have special bios. New cards have good playback abbilety of playing HD video, this shouldn't be any problem today, but HD3xxx/HD4xxx have onboard sound that will play thru the HDMI, this is a nice future if your thinking of having it conected to the TV. In games both ATI and Nvidia can run for the better, it's depending on what game you play and at what resolution, but mostly the prize of the GPU is the limmitation.
Exactly, this guy is right. Best Buy over charges for half the stuff in that store. And you won't get the best bang for your buck. In fact they always over charge for graphics cards. A $50 graphics card purchased online can cost as much as $150 in store, I've seen it done @ Wal-Mart before. Ripoffs. Newegg or TigerDirect re your best chances for not paying a premium on crappy cards...and other things as well.
the ATI drivers are more stabile in Vista then Nvidia drivers are, that is my first hand experience. i dont know if there is any difference in XP. I also found that with ATI cards the last games i had problems with in Vista worked well. so i would reqomend ATI. but by all means, this is purely my impressions after using both Nvidia and ATI during the last 20 month period.
the ATI drivers are more stabile in Vista then Nvidia drivers are, that is my first hand experience. i dont know if there is any difference in XP. I also found that with ATI cards the last games i had problems with in Vista worked well. so i would reqomend ATI. but by all means, this is purely my impressions after using both Nvidia and ATI during the last 20 month period. knut-am
im not surprised there more stable seeing as nvidia was the main cause of blu screens in the initial first periods of vista.
what if both nvidia and ati wore owned by the same company and created seprate brands to make consumers think their competeive companies woooohooooh
kemar7856
:) what if ? lol
[QUOTE="knut-am"]the ATI drivers are more stabile in Vista then Nvidia drivers are, that is my first hand experience. i dont know if there is any difference in XP. I also found that with ATI cards the last games i had problems with in Vista worked well. so i would reqomend ATI. but by all means, this is purely my impressions after using both Nvidia and ATI during the last 20 month period. yoyo462001
im not surprised there more stable seeing as nvidia was the main cause of blu screens in the initial first periods of vista.:)there are a bit of display driver crashes still on the Nvidia-Vista combination, it hasnt happend yet on my ATI driver.
thanks i was thinking the 5850 was the better choice even though Direct x11 isnt really being used in any games it will soon. And Open GL 3.1 sounds nice
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