Weekend Open Forum: Time for a graphics card upgrade?

I'm still very happy with my 8800GTS OC. I just don't see enough reason to upgrade to new hardware. Which honestly makes me jaded to the GPU market. The current hardware generations since my 8800 just haven't been groundbreaking. I'm still waiting for a single power efficient card that can run Crysis at 60 FPS in my native resolution. I'm starting to think that there will never be one.

I'm still using my 8800GT, I guess I'll upgrade to either a 4890 or a 5850 in the next few months depending on availability and pricing.

I have a pair of 1 GB 4870s running in Xfire, and my gaming experience is pretty good, unless I turn up all the settings to maximum.

I'm probably looking at a 5870 with 2 more monitors, but I'll wait for the prices to drop a bit, or if some killer game comes out that I need to play. =)

I bought a 5750, then won a 5850 here, so I think I'm covered. As I said on the last open forum, I think the CPU is the limiting component in my PC. I figure the 5850 will last me for a while.

I recently upgraded from a Geforce 210 to a HD 5770.Can't wait to start folding!

I recently upgraded from a ATI4890 to a Sapphire Vapor-x 5870. In my case, noise was the biggest factor. The 4890 was great but too loud. The Vapor-x 5870 gave a modest increase in performance but was significantly quieter at the same operating temps. I won't move up again unless noise and temp levels can remain similar. BTW, I game at 1920x1200 and all games at very high settings.

I'm still running an 8800GTX, might get a 5770 soon.

I have always been a fan of Nvidia but im thinking of getting an ATI card next. Im slowly building a new PC for Windows 7 64bit and will use a quad core AMD CPU.

I have always been a fan of Nvidia but im thinking of getting an ATI card next. Im slowly building a new PC for Windows 7 64bit and will use a quad core AMD CPU. The Fermi release wasn't that great. And im noticing that more high end systems are using ATI cards.

Where do I begin?
My first few cards were nvidia...
Then I saw the light...
I'm always going with the underdog, why? Because competition is a win/win for the consumer (us).
We love to always have a winner but now days the distance between a winner and a runner up is a hair thick.
I have a Spider platfom with AMD 940 and 4 3870 toxics ,a Dragon platform with AMD 955 and 3 4870 Powercolors that woulld put many to shame. What do I mostly use you may ask? A lowly AMD 9850 with a single 9800gt Calibre P980 and let me tell you...This one also kicks butt!
The Light that I saw showed me that you just can not keep up with all that comes out if you are a regular John and work for a living, support a family and the sort.
Just enjoy what you have or can get. Let the big guys duke it out while you sit it out and enjoy reading whats going on. Did I make any sence? It's ok to be a fan boy and act like one...Also remember we have the power to tell this big companies what we want by what we buy. Do we need 300 fps for a game? or do we just want to turn off the computer when we go to bed with a smile on our faces because we actually enjoyed what we played?
When we pass away and go to the (wherever) cant take the computer with us...Only what we enjoyed!
Meanwhile, KEEP ON OVERCLOCKING BABY! Oh YEAH!
QuantumMech

I'm happy with my GTX 260, gona buy another for SLI.

Philosophy, spirituality, and crossfireX in one post.....

Philosophy, spirituality, and crossfireX in one post.....
who saw that coming :wave:

I am in sore need of a GPU upgrade. My current card, an 8500gt with 256mb struggles to max out even very old games at high resolution. I probably will upgrade it within the next 6 months, to a 5770 or something of a similar price at the time.

I personally think the heatsink design of fermi is very advanced and if ATI's heatsinks used on fermi.. the GPU will be cooked & explode in less than 10 seconds, now i'm not saying nvidia design is bad, but their mistakes is designing a GPU that can do the CPU calculations.. please nvidia next time stick to what you do best and that's by designing a gaming GPUs.

I'm going to have to let Nvidia re-proove themselves for the next few motnhs at least. I won't be buying a new upper end graphics card untill the dust settles a bit. My current focus is acutally an interim cpu/mobo upgrade.

I went from a Intel G41 integrated graphics "solution", to a Core i3-530 integrated graphics "solution". Does that even count in this discussion? Should I not have admitted to that....?

Intel graphics!!! why that's even worse than a Fermi! oh my god I cant believe it, what a rube! :haha::wave:

The G41 graphics score a pitiful 3.5 in Windows 7 Experience Index, and the Core i3-530 comes in at 5.3..! Arguably bad is still bad, but that's a big improvement when tasked to a HTPC or similar use.

And no, I am not deluding myself into believing that it will play Crysis..! Which is quite serendipitous, since I neither have a copy, or know how to play it in the first place. So there!

I had free time on my hands and decided to rank the 15 graphics cards used in the the GTX480 test:
1st HD5870 Crossfire
2nd HD5970
3rd GTX295
4th GTX480
5th HD4870X2
6th HD5870
7th HD5770 Crossfire
8th HD5850
9th GTX285
10th HD5830
11th GTX275
12th HD4890
13th GTX260
14th HD4870
15th HD5770

As far as it goes for me here in New Zealand, HD5850 gives me the most bang for my buck, so I'll probably get that.

that's the highest IGP WEI i have seen, but as long as her ....well...nevermind

you know denial is the first sign.....yer a closet Crysis player aint yas?