Good NVIDIA replacement for a broken 5850

[wahjahka]

hey guys, keep this short, my 5850 broke (not under warranty, my fault)
i was happy with the 5850 but i want to go back to nvidia, so my question is, what would be a good nvidia replacement for my 5850? 4xx series preferred.

thanks!!
if you need any more info just ask.

 

[wolfram23]

What?
5850: 256 -bit GDDR5
gtx 460 1 GB: 256 bit GDDR5

Yeah, dinpankar is talking about the other model, is it 768mb? Anyway, it has worse memory specs, 128bit and less ROPs. 1gb version is the full-on version but costs like $30 more.
Technically tho, the GTX470 is the 5850's competition and the GTX460 is the 5830's, but the 460 is performing really well and sometimes gets close to a 5850 so I think it's a smart move to save that $70 per card from a 5850 ($100 less than a 470) and get the 460. Put the savings towards SLI

 

[jonnyboyC]

the thing i really like about the 460 is that, by itself it would be between the 5830 and hte 5850, but since nvidia's sli tech has a big advantage over over crossfire, and pretty often comes in the realm of the 5850 and 5870 in CF

 

[jyjjy]

Yeah, dinpankar is talking about the other model, is it 768mb? Anyway, it has worse memory specs, 128bit and less ROPs. 1gb version is the full-on version but costs like $30 more.

It actually has a 192 bit bus. Combined with DDR5 that should be fine really for a single card but in SLI the greater memory bandwidth should help more.