What graphics card?

[V1zion]

I cannot decide between two cards. I am not a hardcore gamer I'm a video editor but I would like a card with some get up and go. I was going to get the 7870 but it seems a little overkill for what I would do. So I looked at the 6870 science there still good cardsbut they look to be getting weeded out. The 7770 seems to weak and pointless. I also wanted the xfx black edition card for the case badge... So what would you do.

 

[Supernova1138]

The 6870 is a good gaming card, it has the best price to performance ratio for gaming graphics cards right now. It runs most games at 1080p just fine, only the most demanding games cause it to struggle. If you go for the 6870, probably best to grab one now, as they are no longer in production due to the new 7000 series cards launching.

If your editing software supports CUDA acceleration, you may want to look at an nvidia card, something along the lines of the GTX 560 or 560Ti.