Vista - THG: Best Video Cards for the money (Aug 08)

OK, so Tom's has upgraded their analysis for this month, which *does* include the nVidia price drop - and they're sticking with their recommendations for the most part.

Neither of the nVidia 200 series cards matches the 48xx series cards from ATI, according to them.

Best Video Cards For The Money: August '08 : The Best Graphics Cards for the Money: August 2008 - Tom's Hardware

I certainly love my 4850. Cheap and fast - I'll be trying Crysis tonight, so maybe I'll have to consider crossfire. But every game I've tried at 1680x1050 maxed out runs without a stutter. I'm a happy 48xx user for sure!

Same here, but with the GTX260.. I am a very happy user. and even tho SOME rate it under the 4870.. It's cooler, and it OC's better. and in the end just as good in my eyes. I'm a happy 260 owner.

But waiting to see if NV drops a 55nm. if so, then I'll maybe try one out

edit* Nice thread John

Another similar post - interestingly he likes the ATI for budget and midrange, but suggest the gt280 as a good high end card.

Huh?

Get the best graphics card upgrade | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com

it was the best when he wrote it probably.. and still is, for single cards.. except the new x2 from ATI

For last 5 days I have:

mother M3A,
6400+,
4 gig,
4870 x2,
vista 64 prem,
sb x-fi exgamer,

First 2 days were nightmare as I play AOC and continually every 10 - 30 minutes bsod and ctd due to memeory leak to point game totally unplayable Hour after hour checking and reinstalling. Finally day 3, took out my sb x-fi, replaced with onboard realtek 2.02 drivers just released and all my problems stopped. Can now played flawlessly on max. everything except for occasional lag spikes. I am a very happy ATI customer considering I had nvidia for last 6 years...

wow not a bad machine there for a Dual core. sounds like ur enjoying that for ur games. do you have any real benchmark results of that x2?

nope sorry, no bench marks but still no problems...

GTX260 vs 4870 round 2: [H] Enthusiast - ASUS ENGTX260 TOP

Now that the 260's are the same price as the 4870's things are looking a little different from when 4870 first dropped.

i must admit that's a shock.... i was under the impression the GTX280 was closer to the 4870 performance

& the 4870 & 260 do cost about the same..?? once again the scales start to tip toward team green..