Best overall card for the money?

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drip50291

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$0-$1000 range anyone? and any old school builders can list ones for best card for the money ever. Curious to hear about those too.
 
fleakiller

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I dont know if it was the best card for the money but i had/have a ti4400 that up to 6 months ago played cod2 very nicely had it for about 6 years,but lol i did find out what dx was all about when i got my new card saw things that i never saw before it was lke a new game all over again :)
 
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Can I vote for another one too? The 8800GTS 320MB - it used to be the best card for the money at the time. I suspect it sold more units than any other card in nVidia's history.
 
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I honestly have to tell all of you that not everyone have unlimited budget and for many of us spend more than us$160 it´s not possible. IMO

one of the best cards i ever had was a ATI All In Wonder 128 PRO, I had it for almost 6 years and it runs smooth and was perfect for design and video editing for its capability of capture video trough RCA plug in.

and in this moment I´m running a 9600GT en a P650 board and it´s perfet to me.
 
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4850...

you just started 2 threads on the same thing drip...

don't be the next mf2803 or w/e his name was....
 
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:lol: Talk about memories. I had a Banshee then a Voodoo 3. Value for money I would say the Banshee over the Voodoo 3 (back then).

Right now Radeon HD4850. After rebates most places are averaging around $165. Alot of bang for the buck.
 
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+1 for the 4850

i remember my old agp X800 PRO was a beast of a card. destroyed nvidia's 6800. it's a lot better than an 8400 too, which i thought was funny. played crysis on low/med
not bad for a 4+ year old card :D
 
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I would vote for the 8800GT.

At a price point of 110 US$ is really good, and it's also scalable to higher resolutions if you have an SLI board.


 
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For me it has to be GeForce4 4200ti 128MB..... I kept it 4 years ! And that is the longest time I've kept a video card. IMO there was no need to get a newer one until the 6800GS PCI-E.
 
colonelblake

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i had a 9600XT for years that serverd me well, i still have to use it to diagnose problems with agp boards.

ya i had a banshee too. it did well up until one of the first games that came out with T&L, i think it was Will Rock.

since your in the ATI section of the boards, i would say todays 4850 is a nice overall choice for the money.
 
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wow memory lane here.

Banshee-Voodoo3-Geforce 256-Geforce2 GTS -Geforce3 ti200, ATI 9500 pro OC'd, ATI9800pro, nvidia 6600gt, Nvidia 7800gt pci, and now ATI 4870 pci-e.

These are the cards i used for gaming. I've owned probably about every flippin card from nvidia up through the geforce3, then skipped then back for the 6600gt and 7800gt. ATI didn't really get it together for me until the 9500pro / 9700pro era... then it went to nvidia , then back now i think.

Anyway, best card for ~300 bucks. 4870 hands down.
 
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I thought the ti4200 I had was a great performing card for quite a while, however I think the 4850 at it's current price is just about the best deal ever for GPUs. It makes me angry though because I have had money to buy my GPUs at the worst times ever.
 
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