Best overall card for the money?

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

And as for now aevm is right imo

4850...nuf said...

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.

8800 gt 512 MB... I have 2 of these in SLI and it cost $220 and it faster than a $450 GTX 280.

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.

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.

best card for money is 8600gt

The best card I ever had was an ATI 9800 pro, now I have an 8800GT, so far so good.

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.

you guys remember that forum discussion about the GTX350? XD

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.

So do you guys think graphics cards will go up in money? I dont think they possibly would I'm just thinking of waiting for the new stuff to come out and buy a new card for a cheap price.

YES!! I CAN'T WAIT!! I'm saving up all my money for this one! I'm gonna use it to play Warcraft 2!! but seriously that sounds pretty sweet and I'm sure theres gonna be more exciting things coming out as well. Cant wait for DDR10

2 x hd 4850s in crossfire it will rock

Best card for the money, bar none, is the HD 4850. I have never seen such value for the performance before. It's truly amazing. This card bests the 8800GTX which only a few months before the HD 4850 launch was around $550 dollars. Ive never seen such value before in a card as far as launch prices are concerned.

Some other cards that have really pushed the limits on Price/Performance on my list:

8800GT launched for around $270 and offered about the same performance as the 8800GTX which was around $650 at the time. Destroyed the 8800GTS 320 which was around $330.

3850 launched for $170 and offered 8800GTS (g80) performance at half the price. It also introduced many HTPC features and an extremely low power requirement for the performance.

Radeon 9550, while I don't remember the launch price, it offered much better performance than the FX series, and through modding, it could be "unlocked" to a 9700. Great card.

Nvidia 6800GS, not sure what the launch price was, but it was priced great and could have it's pixel pipeline and vertex shaders unlocked to boost it up to it's higher performing model the 6800v and with overclocking, to the 6800 Ultra.