Oct 21, 2009, 12:03 PM
So I had to cook my video card again a few days ago and realize I need to get a new video card before this one burns out, pun intended.
After reading up I've realized nVidia's new lines are all failing like mine, PhysX is a gimmick, and ATI outperforms them anyway for the price.
So I don't really want to spend more than $180 bucks and am looking at ATI HD 4870 or 5770, they are the same price with some differences.
I see that 4870 slightly outperforms the 5770 in most games, but the 5770 will support directx11 and some other shit I don't know about and supposedly end up faster after support (who knows).
I wasn't impressed with Directx10 and the amount of support they had, so fuck that, but then I see a bunch of really awesome games have been speculated to support dx11 (episode 3, crysis 2, bioshock 2, diablo 3, starcraft 2)
Or I'm thinking of waiting until Christmas time for deals on the 5850 which beats the shit out of all of them but is still a little pricey.
Help me out nerds.
Edit: also the 5xxx series is supposedly awesome with multi-monitor support but I could give two shits since I use my *brag alert* 61 inch TV for a monitor and that's all I need.
After reading up I've realized nVidia's new lines are all failing like mine, PhysX is a gimmick, and ATI outperforms them anyway for the price.
So I don't really want to spend more than $180 bucks and am looking at ATI HD 4870 or 5770, they are the same price with some differences.
I see that 4870 slightly outperforms the 5770 in most games, but the 5770 will support directx11 and some other shit I don't know about and supposedly end up faster after support (who knows).
I wasn't impressed with Directx10 and the amount of support they had, so fuck that, but then I see a bunch of really awesome games have been speculated to support dx11 (episode 3, crysis 2, bioshock 2, diablo 3, starcraft 2)
Or I'm thinking of waiting until Christmas time for deals on the 5850 which beats the shit out of all of them but is still a little pricey.
Help me out nerds.
Edit: also the 5xxx series is supposedly awesome with multi-monitor support but I could give two shits since I use my *brag alert* 61 inch TV for a monitor and that's all I need.