Best graphic card?

[uownedd]

Can someone please help me find the best gaming graphic card for me? (preferably 50-200$) thanks

CPU : AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor 3.20 GHz
Current GPU : 8400gs NVIDIA
RAM: 4gb

 

[shadow187]

What's your power supply? Based on what you've given us, an HD5850 would be your best bet. If you plan on Crossfire, then an HD6850.

 

[uownedd]

I have a thermakake 650 watt. Can you explain what crossfire is?

 

[jryan388]

Crossfire is running two of the same ATI cards at once, effectively doubling performance (minus a fairly significant overhead, but still a huge performance boost). Only some motherboards have enough slots to fit two graphics cards, and if they can, then you use a special bridge cable thingy that clips onto both of them. For Nvidia cards, it's called SLI. What motherboard do you have?

He's asking if you want to run crossfire because two HD6850s perform better in crossfire, but worse individually, than two 5850s.

 

[uownedd]

Oh, yeah i've heard of SLi. My motherboard is a M4A88TD-V ASUS and a gigabyte? I think I recall it saying "Crossfire Ready" on it before..

 

[shadow187]

Your motherboard supports CrossfireX at 16x/4x, which really isn't that bad. Consider the following:

I'd definitely consider an HD6850/6870 now, and a second one later.