Rec. A Video card for around $200?

inquisitor18

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I have been "out of the loop" for several years and am wanting to upgrade my video card and am hoping you can help me. My budget is around $200. It will mainly be used for gaming (GW2/WH40K Eternal Crusade/ Diablo3 etc) Here are some specs for my PC and thank you in advance for any help you can give me. I have seen many people complain about driver issues with Radeon cards, is this still an issue? I have no problems with AMD/Radeon or NVIDIA but would it be better to go with AMD/Radeon since alot of the current components are AMD/Radeon? Are there any Vid card companies I should shy away from such as Saphire/HIS/Gigabyte/MSI etc etc? There is so much information out there its giving me an overload.

ASUS PC (M51BC)
ASUS Mobo M5A97 pciExp16
Proc=AMD FX-6300
RAM=8gigs

Also I am sure I will have to upgrade my power supply as well to run the new video card, I just need to be pointed in the right direction. Thank you again for any help/suggestions you can give me.
 
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the 270x is better than the 750ti.

id think the problems are fixed, but you never know. there will always be complaints about different venders cards.

the 280 is around $200 as well though, heres some cards:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-r9280dc2t3gd5
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr928wf3oc3gd
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100373l

this one is 200 but with the rebate, but is probably the most recommended. the windforce has a higher clock speed, but people semm to have issues with it.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-r9280gaming3g

jshoop

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the 270x is better than the 750ti.

id think the problems are fixed, but you never know. there will always be complaints about different venders cards.

the 280 is around $200 as well though, heres some cards:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-r9280dc2t3gd5
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr928wf3oc3gd
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100373l

this one is 200 but with the rebate, but is probably the most recommended. the windforce has a higher clock speed, but people semm to have issues with it.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-r9280gaming3g
 
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inquisitor18

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I would like to thank all of you for the answers/input/suggestions to my thread. I ended up going with the following:
Antec HCG-620m (80 Plus Bronze) 620w Power supply and
PNY GeForce GTX 760 (2048MB GDDR5/DirectX11) Video Card

So far so good. Installation was simple and easy and experienced no complications thus far.
Again I would like to thank you all for the help and input in helping me choose the equipment.