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Washer wrote:I'm willing to bet once the rest of the GeForce 600 series arrives all the prices will come down significantly.
Washer wrote:a little extra credit
APWNH wrote:BF3 runs smoothly at 1920x1200 in most situations. I play on medium, and the game runs quite well (drivers and updates have improved the experience significantly since the beta and when it first came out). People keep saying a 260 is basically the bare minimum needed to play BF3 but I beg to differ. It may just be my overclocked 2500K but I bet the game can be made very playable with even less GPU power.
APWNH wrote:I just dug through my Newegg order history.
On January 4, 2010 (over 2 years ago) I bought a GTX 260 216-core 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 Gigabyte stock-overclocked video card.
It cost $204.99.
Today I evaluate the performance of mid-range cards and to get *any* improvement in speed in the new games I play (BF3) I'm looking at plopping down way more than $200. For example, AMD 7770 is a smidge under $200 but it also has significantly less horsepower than my GTX 260.
It seems like the best price for performance to be had today is in the GTX 560 range, or maybe the AMD 6900 series. I want to go 28nm but these prices are just not right.
To me, a reasonable GPU upgrade is something that's about twice as fast. It's also nice to have support for newer technologies and APIs.
To satisfy both of those criteria I'm looking at an AMD 7870: It's >$350!
Is this Moore's law winding down? What's going on? I thought the recession ended a few years ago. In July of last year I bought a GTX 560Ti for a build I did for a buddy of mine. It was $220. They've gotten more expensive since then!
The Radeon 7770 is more powerful than the GTX 260
APWNH wrote:The Radeon 7770 is more powerful than the GTX 260
Source? This: http://www.hwcompare.com/11957/geforce- ... n-hd-7770/ indicates the 260 has better memory performance. I'm actually not sure about shader performance but nobody ever reviews these two cards together.
Krogoth wrote:Just wait until 28nm process matures and AMD/Nvidia engage in a price war.
We will see the return of bang-for-the-buck in $199-$249 area.
APWNH wrote:For example, AMD 7770 is a smidge under $200
JustAnEngineer wrote:The two best values in gaming graphics cards right now are the Radeon HD7850 for just under $250 and the Radeon HD6870 for just over $150.
Spend the $247½ or more on the HD7850 and you should be in good shape.
flip-mode wrote:JustAnEngineer wrote:The two best values in gaming graphics cards right now are the Radeon HD7850 for just under $250 and the Radeon HD6870 for just over $150.
Spend the $247½ or more on the HD7850 and you should be in good shape.
I think the 7850 for $250 is a horrible deal. The entire 7000 series is overpriced, even after recent price cuts. Wait for that card to come down to $200 or under and then it's more like where it should be. Or get that GTX 480 for $209, and it's a faster card than the 7850.
Yeats wrote:I don't think the 7850 is a horrible deal relative to the GTX 560 Ti... it's not great, but the 7850 is a little more expensive for slightly more performance. The GTX 480 deal is very hot for the performance, although the power consumption is compared to the Radeons.
flip-mode wrote:...that GTX 480 for $210; and the power consumption of the 480 is only high at load; at idle it's tame, and that's what I'm more concerned with since my GPU spends 95% of it's life at idle.
Yeats wrote:flip-mode wrote:...that GTX 480 for $210; and the power consumption of the 480 is only high at load; at idle it's tame, and that's what I'm more concerned with since my GPU spends 95% of it's life at idle.
I'm just thinking for the OP, can his PSU handle the GTX 480?
flip-mode wrote:Radeon HD7850 was faster than anything else costing less than $349 when it was released. How is that overpriced?JustAnEngineer wrote:I think the 7850 for $247½ is a horrible deal. The entire 7000 series is overpricedThe two best values in gaming graphics cards right now are the Radeon HD7850 for just under $250 and the Radeon HD6870 for just over $150.
JustAnEngineer wrote:Radeon HD7850 was faster than anything else costing less than $349 when it was released. How is that overpriced?
MadManOriginal wrote:It's not perfect, but Techpowerup is a quick and easy way to see a wide range of cards summarized in one graph: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7770/26.html
So, with an appropriate price on the HD7770 and sales on GTX 560 or 560Ti, I don't understand the OP's complaint at all.
APWNH wrote:Problem solved:I don't have an 8 pin PCI-e power plug.
JustAnEngineer wrote:APWNH wrote:Problem solved:I don't have an 8 pin PCI-e power plug.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6812887001