5770 or 460 or 6850

[Ishu Gupta]

^
Correct. I mixed up HD6850 and HD6870.

 

[topgear]

HD6850 would be the best bet and if Oced it will give performance of HD6870 stock.

BTW, get either MSI or gigabyte HD6850 - they have custom cooler and has lower temp when OCed compared to stock cooled HD6850.

 

[vishalg]

is asus eah 6850 a good choice?

 

[vickybat]

^^ yes, Asus has a good reputation and its cards are very good from a build quality perspective. Go for the custom cooler cards like their formula series.

 

[rgsilent]

460 would give you CUDA, PhysX and such additional features which will aid some games more. And there isn't much difference between 460 and 6850 so I'd recommend 460.

 

[vishalg]

@vickybat
there is only 1 model from asus atm
Hell there aint any choice for 68xx series

Going by the reviews, asus eah seems to be a gud choice but is priced higher than msi and sapphire!

 

[vickybat]

@vishalg

Asus eah6850 directcu is a good model and has a nice custom cooler with heat pipes.
Asus claims it to be running 20c cooler than the refference design, and indeed it runs very cool and increases headroom for overclocking.

Check this

If its priced very high compared to msi and sapphire(i.e 6870 territory) then go for the other two options.

 

[ghost_z]

imo take the gtx 460 hawk from msi if ur budget allows it comes close to the performance level of a stock gtx 470 and its highly overclockable.....
currently using it and am quite happy gives 40-50 avg fps in crysis with 16x aa
and all settings maxed out and its definety will beat any hd 6850 in the market...
it cost me around 13.5k in bangalore
and ur psu its crap just et a good psu from corsair(gs,vx,tx,hx series) either of these will suffice...

 

[mitraark]

Why is everyone advising to avoid XFX ? Unfortunately most people stock XFX Cards only here in Kolkata , to be honest when i was a n00b , i though XFX meant Graohics Card

When ever i ask for brands like Sapphire , Zotac Palit , the dealer just says , we don;t stock those cheap brands

What is the exact poblem in XFX ?

 

[topgear]

^^ RMA and build quality :

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/hardware-...ating-xfx-graphic-card-warranty-resolved.html

 

[Zangetsu]

When ever i ask for brands like Sapphire , Zotac Palit , the dealer just says , we don;t stock those cheap brands

cheap???....sapphire is not cheap...when i quoted for sapphire it was costlier than Palit......& XFX is good brand...provided u dnt buy it frm Rashi.....
just read the above thread posted by topgear....

What is the exact poblem in XFX ?

No Problem....in latest cards....earlier it was like XFX8600GT was a stove machine......but its not mostly bought...may be due to general consesus in people....abt XFX being bad.....