I cooked my video card today

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

stop calling your basement the shop.

I don't, I call the detached building which houses my tools and workspace the shop... that and where I work is technically a shop too.

[Isuxdix]

Stop talking about your dumb basement and stay on topic please.

This is about cooking computer hardware.

[Zeitgeist]

on topic:
http://www.humus.name/index.php?page=News&ID=283

[jwstohr]

stop calling your basement the shop.

It's the COMMAND CENTER.

[Isuxdix]

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.

[Adder]

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.

Requesting pic of TF2 running on your tv.

[Zeitgeist]

61 is a little excessive. My 40" sometimes gives me headaches. how far away do you sit?

[Isuxdix]

I'm about 6 feet away and haven't gotten a headache yet. I normally used a 20" for gaming and the TV for online netflix and illegal movies, but my 20"er died a while ago and I've been using the TV for everything since.

And I can't get photos to my computer because HP software is the absolute worst.

[Zeitgeist]

Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard. Use it.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

any screens above 30 inches look like shit. The only monitors you can get to go UP to 30 inches and not look like shit are the super-high-res 2000$ monitors.