Best Graphics Cards For The Money: January 2012 (Archive)

[lunyone]

yeah.. i know the prices on the r9-290s have got silly low. two months ago i was going to get a gtx780, but now it's looking like a lock i'll go with an r9-290. probably a tri-x... i'll have to check the room in my case before i do it.

Just make sure you get the NON-Reference coolers on the 290/290x models. The reference coolers are just crap, IMHO. Even Asus Direct CUII and Sapphire GPU's with their cooling implementations are good too.

 

[OWEN10578]

oh i agree... the 750ti is an amazing peice of engineering. but it's performance envelope isn't that far away from a 260x to get too concerned about it. either way i'm glad you like your new card. it certainly would kick my card around

I guess you're right. Yea, the thing's been awesome. hahaha, what's your card?

hd 7770, still a stupid great bargain... got it last summer (for $78) as a placeholder, still got it though it's getting replaced shortly with a r9-290 or gtx 780

Ooo, a 7770 is a bargain alright. But to an R9 290 or GTX 780? That's a huge upgrade man, any of those two cards would decimate my GTX 750 Ti.

 

[OWEN10578]

yeah.. i know the prices on the r9-290s have got silly low. two months ago i was going to get a gtx780, but now it's looking like a lock i'll go with an r9-290. probably a tri-x... i'll have to check the room in my case before i do it.

Just make sure you get the NON-Reference coolers on the 290/290x models. The reference coolers are just crap, IMHO. Even Asus Direct CUII and Sapphire GPU's with their cooling implementations are good too.

Asus's DirectCUII coolers on the R9 290 and R9 290X are not very good, so are the Gigabyte ones. The Sapphires and MSIs are the one I would recommend. 😀

 

[cub_fanatic]

Best card to max out Watch Dogs in any resolution: The 18,688 Nvidia Tesla GPUs in the Cray Titan supercomputer. That is the bare minimum. But, even then there is still a little stutter when you drive. And this is in single monitor 1080p.

 

[caqde]

Can we can the Integrated graphics for AMD's Richland/Kaveri and Intel's Haswell on this list. It would be nice to see where they are at compared to dGPU's and the like.