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  1. 09-07-11, 10:50 PM #1
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    in the market for a new vid card .. thoughts?

    whats the bang for buck atm?
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    GTX 560? Somebody confirm though pls. I'm gonna get the 580 I reckon. I've had to shut down one of the GPUs in my 295... at least that's stopped the crashing!
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    Tom's Hardware Best Graphics Cards For The Money: July 2011 is a good resource. Work out a budget and choose accordingly.

    GTX 560s are looking like a good budget buy (approx $200), can squeeze out an extra $50-100 worth of performance with a bit of tweaking.
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    It really depends if you want a stopgap, or something that can play Battlefield 3 at 60fps+ when it comes out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rec View Post
    It really depends if you want a stopgap, or something that can play Battlefield 3 at 60fps+ when it comes out.
    That's pretty much what it comes down to Kurt.
    You're prolly on a budget; but imo spend a few extra bucks and make it go the distance
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    Don't listen to all these guys on here if you want the best and you have the cash you NEED one of these

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    At £500 the Voodoo 5 6000 is an expensive purchase
    But the real beast in 3dfx's family is the Voodoo 5 6000, which features four VSA-100 processors working together to provide approximately twice the performance

    thats right 4 processors no other card on the market today has 4...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sonicks_Services View Post
    Don't listen to all these guys on here if you want the best and you have the cash you NEED one of these

    Voodoo5 6000
    At £500 the Voodoo 5 6000 is an expensive purchase
    But the real beast in 3dfx's family is the Voodoo 5 6000, which features four VSA-100 processors working together to provide approximately twice the performance

    thats right 4 processors no other card on the market today has 4...
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    Shameless plug for my FS thread several decent videocards in there.
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    budget isnt an issue .. looking at bf3 being the benchmark game to play and my 5850 died so yeah lets say $1k budget ..
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