Deals for June 9: GeForce GTX 260 For $140.99

[bochica]

[citation][nom]fausto[/nom]that gtx260 deal expired but there is another one in california...$30 off any card. i'm torn between a gtx 470 and a radeon 5850. both on stock settings. which is the better deal?i could get the 5850 for $280 and the gtx 470 for $309anyone have experience with both?[/citation]

The 4 series does have the performance crown, but it comes down to power consumption and heat generation. I have heard that the 470s aren't that bad with temps, and in a properly cooled room it will stay in the 70s under load. However, if you are undecided in which card to buy, go with the 5850 as I would wait until a 4 series die shrink before buying one. Hopefully that will bring the temps down a good bit, and it will be cheaper to buy an easy bake oven.

 

[fausto]

[citation][nom]bochica[/nom]The 4 series does have the performance crown, but it comes down to power consumption and heat generation. I have heard that the 470s aren't that bad with temps, and in a properly cooled room it will stay in the 70s under load. However, if you are undecided in which card to buy, go with the 5850 as I would wait until a 4 series die shrink before buying one. Hopefully that will bring the temps down a good bit, and it will be cheaper to buy an easy bake oven.[/citation]


that was my thinking soon....but now i'm think gtx470 probably has good overclocking room since it's gtx480 with disabled components. uses less power than gtx 480 and is considerably cheaper right now.

the seller is out of stock on most 5850's too but they said they come in often.

 

[fausto]

i'm going dx11...it's just figuring out which one...it's all hypothetical because i only have press articles to go with. will probably come down to card length. measuring space in my case tonight. i added 2 more hd's and space is tight behind the card i have now which is the 8800gts g92

 

[bochica]

[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]they might be able to do it but not with all the eye candy on like I like it. 8xAA 16x AF full throttle. Let's see a $150 card get 60 - 80 fps with all that on. Battlefield bc2 I can see a big difference from dx10 to 11 btw.[/citation]
Yeah a $150 GPU probably won't do that. Then again if you don't have enough money for a dual GPU config, you also don't have enough money for a monitor to use it on.

As I stated before, you will not see a jump in DX 11 unless it is supported. BC2 is one of the 6 currently released games that support it, and there have only been a reported 7 more games that won't be out until the end of this year. Again, not a lot of games out there support DX11, and by the time a huge catalog of them do, ATI/Nvidia may even have revisions of their cards out.

 

[rooket]

gtx 260 > *
if I buy this I could finally SLI. Too bad Valve doesn't use SLI. So I could very well pass. I don't play any games that aren't source engine usually. I get 200fps in HL2DM so I guess I'm doing alright.
This is the card to get if you are smart and want to save money and also want to be able to game well.

 

[dragunover]

I got my GTX 260 Core 216 for free.
But, it was actually 299 dollars, with free shipping/no tax