Best OC Card for ~$250

[hamstu]

So far, for my new setup, I'm getting:

[*:8325dc7840]Opteron 165 Dual Core
[*:8325dc7840]DFI LANParty UT NF4
[*:8325dc7840]OCZ Platinum 1GB

I'm planning to OC my system -- but I'm very new to this, and I'm not sure which VC would be best, I'm not a hard core gamer, but I do play games on Steam (HL2, CS:S, etc.)

Budget: Around $250 USD ($275 CAD)

I'm canadian by the way, so I can't actually buy from newegg, but feel free to link wherever for examples.

Thanks!

 

[1Tanker]

So far, for my new setup, I'm getting:

[*:35fe61ecc4]Opteron 165 Dual Core
[*:35fe61ecc4]DFI LANParty UT NF4
[*:35fe61ecc4]OCZ Platinum 1GB

I'm planning to OC my system -- but I'm very new to this, and I'm not sure which VC would be best, I'm not a hard core gamer, but I do play games on Steam (HL2, CS:S, etc.)

Budget: Around $250 USD ($275 CAD)


I'm canadian by the way, so I can't actually buy from newegg, but feel free to link wherever for examples.

Thanks!

I would suggest a 7600 GT then like these:


http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1931188&CatId=0

or this

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2207285&CatId=0

i like the eVGA products, as you can step-up within 90 days, if you wish

you had gotten something with more oomph. I find NCIX the best for

Canada, but they don't seem to have any 7600 GT's there. GL

 

[hamstu]

I would suggest a 7600 GT then like these: http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1931188&CatId=0
or this
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2207285&CatId=0

i like the eVGA products, as you can step-up within 90 days, if you wish

you had gotten something with more oomph. I find NCIX the best for

Canada, but they don't seem to have any 7600 GT's there. GL

Thanks a lot, those look great.

Could you uhhh... bump up the budget to CAD$332?
Cuz the 7900GT is worth every penny(whatever...) and has higher performance/$ once its potentials are unleashed.

Hmm, nice. I may be willing to spend the extra $$, it does look nice for OC'ing


On a side note, someone at my work is offering a new (never used) X850XT 256mb pcie (can't remember any other details, but I'll check tommorow) for $160 CAD, Is this a good deal?

Thanks!

 

[hamstu]

I don't have Oblivion

Here are the stats for that x850:

Sapphire Radeon X850 XT is a 256MB DDR3 SDRAM Graphics Card . It uses the ATI RADEON X850 XT chip and connects with a PC using PCI Express technology.

Category Graphics Card Brand Sapphire
Graphics Processor ATI RADEON X850 XT Memory size 256MB
Interface PCI Express Compatibility PC
Core clock speed 540MHz Memory clock speed 400MHz
Memory bus width 256-bit Memory technology DDR3 SDRAM
Maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 Output connections 1 x S-Video output , 2 x DVI-I - 29 pin