[Solved] Minimum card for decent 1920x1080

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Hello,

Whats the best graphics card for a 1920x1080 monitor on a budget? This is for games like crysis, fallout 3, assassin's creed 2, dont really need everything to be on maximum just decently playable System will be i5. PSU is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817341022
I have around $160 to work with along with psu limits; might have a bit more $ and am hoping for black friday sales. Im thinking a hd 4850 or gts 250 wont do.

Thank you in advance

Reply to suitaroh1

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts [...] ,1509.html

A 4850 will play those games you listed at a very playable 40-60fps without AA or filtering. If you need a card capable of those resolutions with AA and filtering I would go for a 4890 or possibly a 5850 when prices drop on those. Also you could always overclock that 4850 quite a bit as long as your case has good airflow. Whats the rest of your system?

Message edited by shuffman37 on 11-14-2009 at 05:11:57 AM

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That is a very capable power supply. You won't have any issues running a decent GPU. I wouldn't suggest running a dual card or multi GPU setup though.

At a $160 budget I would suggest one of 2 options. The first is a 4890, but is $180 up front with a $20 MIR. If you aren't keen on the MIR and need it to be $160 or less up front, I would suggest this XFX 4870. They would both perform better than a 4850 or GTS250. You might want the extra UMF! for that larger resolution.

HIS 4890:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product

XFX 4870:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product

Message edited by jay2tall on 11-14-2009 at 05:19:57 AM

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System will be i5? So you haven't built it yet. Building a system on a 775 socket CPU or a high end AM3 socket would save you money that can be put towards a better graphics card... your CPU wouldn't be bogged down either. And you would get better gaming performance.

Tom's wrote an article recently on CPU and GPU
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2469.html

If you want the i5 though yeah. 4870, 4890. depending on the flexibility of the $160 and the prices you find.

Does anyone know about going crossfire on a 550W PSU? In case 'e wants to upgrade in the future?

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I want to use the i5 to be slightly future equiped. Would like the cpu at least to last 2 years. Rest of the system: case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] nzxt%20m59
HD; Probably going to be 3 Samsung spinpoints
OD; whatever has decent reviews
mobo; probably gonna be 110-150 gigbyte
4 gigs ram
card reader
case will have 3 120 fans, i bought one to go with 2 included
You guys think ill be able to get 4890s in my price range w/o rebate during black friday cyber monday? If not should I go for 4870? gtx 260 seems to be going for about 10$ less than 4870s though.

Reply to suitaroh1

A 4870 and GTX260 are roughly equals, they trade punches per game. The 4890 outperforms both. Get what you can afford. Any of them will do you well.

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