How Much is Your Video Card Budget for 2009?

[r_manic]

Are you planning to upgrade your video card this year? If so, how much are you planning to spend, and why?

Personally, I'm not a hard-core gamer, but I still want good graphics. So my figure's at $100 - $200.

 

[randomizer]

I was intending on getting a HD4870 1GB. I don't think I will bother upgrading my 9600GT now though, I'm just not playing any demanding games any more (mostly L4D).

 

[Wolfshadw]

Find me a low-profile, fanless, AGP card w/ S-Video out and that's my budget (for non-HD secondary HTPC).

-Wolf sends

Edit:

(and I already know about these).

 

[sefit]

2009 budget already spent....GTX 295 installed two weeks ago

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

Budget? What is a budget, sounds exotic. I usually just buy what I want when I ahve the money and then suffer from being poor until the next paycheck... If the new cards coming out can out pace my 4870 X2 then I will buy 2, whichever brand is more attractive. Here is hoping for ATI so that they can do what they are doing now and offer me similar performance like that of nVidia's future cards at a much better value.

 

[cliffro]

2009 budget already spent....GTX 295 installed two weeks ago

Same here, I already bought a GTX260, next up is CPU/Mobo/Ram and or my hard drive(s)

 

[Annisman]

Whatever the next flagship is for either Nv or ATi is my next buy, that probably means about 600$ or more.

 

[michaelmk86]

Whatever the next flagship is for either Nv or ATi is my next buy, that probably means about 600$ or more.

this man speaks the truth

 

[HEMI_Engine]

That he does.

My next card will be ATi's flagship. 5870x2?

 

[Vokofpolisiekar]

Are you planning to upgrade your video card this year? If so, how much are you planning to spend, and why?

Personally, I'm not a hard-core gamer, but I still want good graphics. So my figure's at $100 - $200.

I don't see a $5 option. That would be to get some air in a can to clean my setup. Don't see any reason to upgrade as there isn't any PC based game I'm interested in so far.

And I really wish both NV and ATi would stop making dual gpu on a single PCB for the "top" tier cards. What happened to a single GPU power house?

 

[Vokofpolisiekar]

I will upgrade if i need to and will spend however much i need to using a real currency.

Zim dollars?

$50,000,000 ZIM gets you a bread I believe...

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Depends on how much a DX11 VPU add-on is for a nice laptop..... 400+ is likely, but whether I'll know of not depends on if it's included in the 'base' model or not.

Tempeted to do the M-HD4850/4870 laptop thing, but wanna see the new ARC-hi-texture first to decide if it's worth waiting for in the mobile segment. Also improved compute shader / Open CL in things like Adobe et al will help decide. Until then, dunno current setup is fine for most things.

Since I'm buying 3 pairs of Skis this fall (just had a major core shot at Kicking Horse to my racers), I'm not wasting money.

 

[Vokofpolisiekar]

You're afrikaans right?

 

[Bluescreendeath]

My budget is $0

Spent it on two 9800GTXs.

 

[Onus]

I just got my HD4850, which is overkill as it is for my current needs. I have a second machine though, now with only 790GX integrated, and I will probably put a 4670 in it.

 

[smartel7070]

I bought a 4850x2 in february so I don't think I will upgrade again this year. This card should be good to play upcoming games at 1920*1200 for another year I think.

 

[r_manic]

Haha, obviously "budget" isn't in a lot of people's vocab when it comes to GPU upgrades... Nevertheless, I still think there's a magic figure that represents enough power for decent gaming for the next year or so.

I still think $200 is enough for that (and note, I said "decent" gaming). But wow guys, I wish I had that much money to spend on video cards!