GTX 550ti vs HD 6850

[NigelEMack]

I have an HP Pavilion p6710f and im going to buy a graphics card + powersupply to play games with some pretty high settings and frame rates. I've been looking at these two cards (there within my price range) and I can't decide witch one I should get or if I should get a diffrent one.

The GTX 550ti
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=41125&sku=E145-0550

HD 6850
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6817311&CatId=3669

Im also looking into this powersupply
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3276574&pagenumber=2&RSort=1&csid=ITD&recordsPerPage=5&body=MAIN#ReviewStart

Heres my computer
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02628226&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=5049513&tmp_track_link=ot_search

Just would like to know what card I should be looking into and if there would be any problems. Help would be much apprectiated.

 

[NigelEMack]

My native resolution of my monitor is 1920x1080 but I don't realy mind what the resolution is in games, I play games like Resident evil 5, Call of Duty Black ops, Mafia II, and Crysis if that helps

 

[shrkbay]

6850 is quite a lot faster.

 

[tinmann]

Both card will probably fit into your case . The AMD card is 9.5" (inches) and the Nvidia card is only 8.25" (inches). I'd be concerned about air flow in that case though.

 

[NigelEMack]

Thanks for the feedback, I will definatly go with the HD 6850 card but im still undecided on the powersuplly or if I should get a new case so imporve air flow. Any ideas? Should I really get a new case to?

 

[shrkbay]

if you don't over heat anything then your case is fine.

 

[NigelEMack]

^thanks for the reply! I figured I would have much of a problem with this upgrade as long as I monitor the temps and see if there fine with the HP case. What do you guys think would be the best power supply for my case and the HD 6850?