What graphics card have you got?

[Fraz]

I've got a HD 4870, recently upgraded from a GeForce 8600GTS (it was only one years old, yet it wouldn't play any recent games properly :/ ) Anyways I went ahead a bought the 4870 so I wouldn't have to worry about upgrades for a year or two. The only thing that makes me regret going with ATI instead of Nvidia because of physX ... But hopefully someone will release custom drivers for ATI cards soon enough.

The 8600 GTS was a sick joke unfortunately, so I'm not surprised it didn't do to well.

[jimmyt1988]

I have a GTX295 Its absolutely brilliant. Everything is flawless on it. I love it so damn much.

THE X2 has problems, GTX295 is just pure bliss.

Why have you bunched the 9800GX2 with the GTX295?

[kalniel]

Why have you bunched the 9800GX2 with the GTX295?

Because it's nVidia's only other dual PCB card.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I have a GTX295 Its absolutely brilliant. Everything is flawless on it. I love it so damn much.

THE X2 has problems, GTX295 is just pure bliss.

Why have you bunched the 9800GX2 with the GTX295?

Because they are both dual GPU cards. There was only a maximum of 10 outcomes to the poll allowed. If I could have had more than 10 outcomes then I would have had more individual options.

[Gfinch]

ATI Radeon™ HD 4670, PCI-E 2.0(x16), 1746MHz GDDR3, GPU 750MHz, 320 Cores.

To be precise.

[MadduckUK]

is 1746 rounded up or down?

[Gfinch]

is 1746 rounded up or down?

Rounded up I presume.

[DanceswithUnix]

The 8600 GTS was a sick joke unfortunately, so I'm not surprised it didn't do to well.

8600GT was way faster than the 7600GT it replaced, about the 7900GS in speed. The GTS was often overpriced and always overshadowed by how excellent the 8800GT was, but that doesn't make 8600 a sick joke.

Paid 45 quid for my 8600GT well over a year ago when my 7900GT went bang. My wife still uses it, nice little card for the money. She is only just starting to find it a limitation, might try an ATI card for her next time.

[St1ckman]

8600GT was way faster than the 7600GT it replaced, about the 7900GS in speed. The GTS was often overpriced and always overshadowed by how excellent the 8800GT was, but that doesn't make 8600 a sick joke.

Paid 45 quid for my 8600GT well over a year ago when my 7900GT went bang. My wife still uses it, nice little card for the money. She is only just starting to find it a limitation, might try an ATI card for her next time.

Noooooo! Cause then she'll have to use a card without physx support and she'll moan about it lagging on Mirror's Edge....... Maybe..

[Pob255]

8600GT was way faster than the 7600GT it replaced, about the 7900GS in speed. The GTS was often overpriced and always overshadowed by how excellent the 8800GT was, but that doesn't make 8600 a sick joke.

Paid 45 quid for my 8600GT well over a year ago when my 7900GT went bang. My wife still uses it, nice little card for the money. She is only just starting to find it a limitation, might try an ATI card for her next time.

Yes for £45 it's a good card, for £125 which they were when they came out, they were a joke, esp as the 7900gs was £90 at the time.

But you're right about the 8800gt (and at the same time the 3850 & 3870) they totally skewed the market, giveing high end performance for mid range prices, which is still continueing atm although nvidia seem to be doing there damndest to try to fix that with the gtx2XX series

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Yes for £45 it's a good card, for £125 which they were when they came out, they were a joke, esp as the 7900gs was £90 at the time.

But you're right about the 8800gt (and at the same time the 3850 & 3870) they totally skewed the market, giveing high end performance for mid range prices, which is still continueing atm although nvidia seem to be doing there damndest to try to fix that with the gtx2XX series

Thank goodness for ATI then!!

I still have fond memories of my old 9500 Pro. I bought it in early 2004 secondhand and replaced it two years later. I played many of the newest FPS games at the time without any major problem. Now one of my work colleagues has it in his old PC as an "upgrade" so he can play a strategy game. Not bad for a card which is well over 5 years old!!

[DanceswithUnix]

Noooooo! Cause then she'll have to use a card without physx support and she'll moan about it lagging on Mirror's Edge....... Maybe..

Could she not use the ATI card for graphics, and plug the old 8600GT into the currently unused SLI slot on the motherboard for use as a PPU?

[thedynasty]

HD4870 FTW,
Had some minor problems with getting the settings right for 3DSMAX was crashing constantly but after some minor tweaking it works flawlessly.

[McPhee]

8600GT was way faster than the 7600GT it replaced, about the 7900GS in speed. The GTS was often overpriced and always overshadowed by how excellent the 8800GT was, but that doesn't make 8600 a sick joke.

Paid 45 quid for my 8600GT well over a year ago when my 7900GT went bang. My wife still uses it, nice little card for the money. She is only just starting to find it a limitation, might try an ATI card for her next time.

When it first came out it was a silly price, a good £130 or so. In comparison you could buy the faster x1950 Pro for under £90 (as low as £75 if you were lucky). There was a whole range of previous generation GPUs that were faster than it all being sold off for considerably less (i picked up an x1950 XTX for £120!).

It's not bad now, and hasn't been for some time thanks to it hitting a sensible price. It was most definitely part of the DX10 "joke" when it first launched though.

[aidanjt]

My 4870 is silly fast, but I'm still using my 8800GTS because AMD's drivers are irritatingly unstable on both Windows and Linux. nV's drivers still crash occasionally, but mostly during gaming, and I can live with that, I can't, however, put up with crashes, hangs and BSoD/panic()'s during basic desktop usage.

[DanceswithUnix]

When it first came out it was a silly price, a good £130 or so. In comparison you could buy the faster x1950 Pro for under £90 (as low as £75 if you were lucky). There was a whole range of previous generation GPUs that were faster than it all being sold off for considerably less (i picked up an x1950 XTX for £120!).

It's not bad now, and hasn't been for some time thanks to it hitting a sensible price. It was most definitely part of the DX10 "joke" when it first launched though.

So they messed up the introduction price. My point is that the 5xxx range was truly dreadful for all time, the 7900 cards had a tendancy to cook themselves, yet people spit the same bile at the 8600 when, really, it wasn't that bad. Nvidia thought DX10 was worth money, we didn't agree. 6 months after launch, I had an 8600GT card for under 50 quid delivered. Nice!

In fact, I found the 8600 easier to live with than the 8800 (G92) card I have now. Fewer driver problems (never did work that one out, same architecture for christ sake!), less heat, quieter fan.