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 whats a good graphics card? 
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Post whats a good graphics card?
I haven't been playing much because my graphics card went out -_-

what kind should i get? just throw anything out on the table and ill do the research to see if its compatible with my PC..

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Just buy the most expensive one you can and look for a good warranty. :P

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570-590 GTX asst my personal favorites. I've heard good things about the 6950 and the 6970 sapphires from radeon as well.

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Personally I am a believer in the 560ti when it comes between money and power.

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I did some research, and a lot of people prefer XFX or Sapphire cards because those companies have really good customer support, along with EVGA, who is pretty good as well. These are companies, not actual cards, but as long as you register your card purchase you'll have pretty good service should anything go wrong.

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i got evga 570 still need to get windows 7 installed on my computer doing that this weekend hopefully

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It really depends on your budget and resolutions/monitor setup, but I absolutely love the HD 6970 and HD 6950 - both very powerful, single-core cards with (decently) lower power consumption than a 570 or a 580.

I was able to flash a Sapphire HD 6950 with an HD 6970 BIOS and unlocked the extra shader cores to basically make it a 6970. It was the DiRT 3 toxic edition but I haven't tried any other 6950s.

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I highly recommend the 6950, Xfire they're insane.

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I'm running the GTX 560 Ti and it blows thru BF3 default settings, whatever those are.

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Post Re: whats a good graphics card?
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Depends on what you mean by good and expect out of it. Someones good would start at 1000 on that chart, others might start at 1500-2000.

1000 would play CSS very well with a nice setup
1500 would play L4D2 ok

If you are looking to play BF3 and all the other pretty games go for something 2500 and up.

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i have a radeon hd 5450 and have no issues.

but i really only play cs:s


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Thanks guys for all your input, I appreciate it. i should have my card in a week or 2, a month the most :/


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I have a GTX 560 and have no problems with BF3!

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i have a gts 450 and i run bf3 fine, not at the highest settings though

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BF3 ran just fine on medium settings at 2650x1600 on a stock-clocked HD 6850. Probably can do high/ultra at 1920!

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