nVidia > ATi

[Luke]

Right, I had my eye on the GTX260 on ebuyer that was £128, but now, they've all disappeared, with only bad or extremley expensive ones in place.

So, I'll have to go with ATi, what would people recomend, that's similar to GTX260 performance or better, but less than £130

Many Thanks
Luke

[Recursion]

They're gone for a reason, wait it out a little bit.

[Stephen!]

The GTX260's are gone because they actually don't make them any more. I would recommend going with a 4870, or a 4890 if you can stretch your budget that far.

http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?origin=gbase6.3&prodID=B244326

Although, I would wait for Fermi to be released at the end of March and then see what that does to the market. Some cards should go down in price.

[Luke]

The GTX260's are gone because they actually don't make them any more. I would recommend going with a 4870, or a 4890 if you can stretch your budget that far.

http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?origin=gbase6.3&prodID=B244326

Although, I would wait for Fermi to be released at the end of March and then see what that does to the market. Some cards should go down in price.

Hmm, probobly wait till March then - cheers!

[Flisker]

I really want the 300 series to come out! A friend in college said that the 300 series won't beat ATi's cards, however in my opinion I think they will exceed the speed of ATi cards which are out at the moment. Obviously the first lot of 300 series won't but the high end ones will.

[Agnostic Bear]

Right, I had my eye on the GTX260 on ebuyer that was £128, but now, they've all disappeared, with only bad or extremley expensive ones in place.

So, I'll have to go with ATi, what would people recomend, that's similar to GTX260 performance or better, but less than £130

Many Thanks
Luke

Nvidia is not greater than ATI, they're a company of rebrands and technological backwardness, please see fermi: power problems, MASSIVE CHIP, efficiency problems. They're just throwing more crap at it until it works.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/191864 go hog wild.

[Stephen!]

Agreed at above.

& The 5770 is a pretty epic card for the price. Didn't think of that one before.

[Luke]

Nvidia is not greater than ATI, they're a company of rebrands and technological backwardness, please see fermi: power problems, MASSIVE CHIP, efficiency problems. They're just throwing more crap at it until it works.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/191864 go hog wild.

With that, it has DVI, HDMI and displayport

Is there an adaptor to turn the display port to VGA/DVI?

Cheers
Luke

[Recursion]

You can get them, even Apple do them for their MacBooks.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/153262 (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/161349)

[boselect]

ATI 5770 is the greatest card for the money at the moment, its only like £120 too.

also on the FERMI/nvidia3xx series ive heard its more for programming than gaming (like their tesla GPUs)

[Flisker]

ATI 5770 is the greatest card for the money at the moment, its only like £120 too.

also on the FERMI/nvidia3xx series ive heard its more for programming than gaming (like their tesla GPUs)
I doubt the GeForce 3xx series will be for programming.

[boselect]

I doubt the GeForce 3xx series will be for programming.

well from what ive heard its based around the TESLA internals, which is primarily used for aid in compiling/programming

[Recursion]

I doubt the GeForce 3xx series will be for programming.

Agree'd


well from what ive heard its based around the TESLA internals, which is primarily used for aid in compiling/programming

I very much doubt they will begin confusing consumer graphics cards with compiling/3D rendering cards in terms of names. The 300 series will be consumer cards IMO.