Graphics Card Question

Why did you link the glasses?

Or you could spend an extra $50 to buy a 670, those cards are amazing and if you wanted to go NVIDIA then it's an option. Also the 3rd link is sunglasses for me?

there we go! i fixed it lets try that again. for some reason the wrong link posted

and i have always ran nvidia cards. but i looked at the 7850 and thats amazing! i would love to get it and its right in my price range. as far as switching brands would there be any difference at all>?

Well I will try not to get into an nvidia vs amd debate, for performance neither is really better than the other because they are always leapfrogging. Generally you just compare performance between two particular cards. Nvidia have some features which will only run on their cards though (because they are jerks) like extra partial or physics effects. If you like 3D gaming nvidia are also better because there is a wider range of monitor support. If you were running more than 3 monitors I would recommend AMD. So really unless any of those are important factors to you then I wouldn't worry about switching over.

As for the actual brands of graphics cards, I usually go choose according to factory overclock and how awesome the cooler looks....

If you're looking in the $250-320 range, you should get a $280 GTX 660Ti or a $300 HD 7950. They're about even - depending on what games you'll play.

If you want to save a bit, and still get more performance than both those cards you were looking at, go for the GTX 660 or HD 7870. They're about even - again, depends on the game which is slightly better.

jessterman21 has good advice, personally if I was to pick one card out of everything it would be this bad boy:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

I hear only good things, its quiet, fast, and not very power hungry. With 16GB of fast memory and a good Motherboard the only thing that would be holding you back would be a sweet graphics card (unless your CPU is rubbish).

Good luck to you :-)

**would be the LACK of a sweet graphics card

basicly i play League of legends, WoW, Guild wars 2 , swtor, dota 2, smnc, diablo3, and skyrim. and anything i get in the furture. so would either card still work the same way?

For those games either card would be absolutely fine. Here is a list of games which have nvidia only features:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_hardwar...


These results will give you a good idea of what kind of an FPS you will get with some of these cards:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-650-ti-...


also if you want to add me on League of Legends my user name is "Subject E57" funnily enough.

i'm not trying to say anything bad but the 7950(catalyst 12.11) is way better than the 660Ti even in a nvidia game like bf3 the 7950 is tied or even beating the 660Ti with 4xAA and don't forget the terrible memory bus on the 660Ti and the 7950 has more VRam than the 660Ti's(except the galaxy one)nvidia screwed up this year with the 660Ti and i don't think that they can recover

awesome guys! thanks for all the help   think that pretty much does it~!

Best answer selected by cdepappe.

Yeah, I think the HD 7950 does have the edge there, and it can be overclocked at least 25%

It's only $20 more, and probably more future-proof.