thinking of oppgrading my graphic cards this summer

[SilverSlice]

for the moment i am running
3 22 inch monitors on 2 X 8800 gtx card if i recall rigth its the version with 512 ram
i am ordering 4 more giga ram so i will have 8 giga ram shortly in my system.
cpu is dualcore 8400 or 8500 can not remember for the moment.
the bottleneck is the graphic cards i currently got.

to get even smoother run on my girls with higher graphic settings. i am thinking of buying

2 X XFX GeForce GTX 285 670M XXX 1GB http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...285xxx/13.html

have anyone here posetive or perhaps more importent, negative experience with this card?

would be enjoyable, playing 5x chars on the same pc with a lot higher graphical settings then what i am running at the moment.




silver

[Enndo]

After alot of research I came to the conclusion the EVGA gtx 285 was the best of the 285 series, but if I was you since you have 3 monitors is run 2 off 1 GTX 285 and the 3rd off one of your old cards, since the GTX 285's are still floating around $350 sometimes $300 on a good day at new egg.



Edit- Right now New Egg has the EVGA GTX 285 SC Edition on sale for $295, but its an "in cart" special so you wont see the discount until you put it in your cart.

[Kang]

I just bought an EVGA GTX 285 SC. I have yet to install it. I'll let you know how it works out once it's in.

I would advise against high-end ATI cards. I bought one and it would not install properly. None of the drivers worked. After doing some research I saw many people had similar problems.

[Enndo]

Nice! Yeah every review I've read says EVGA's 285 is the best, and I've also read many reviews that the ATI cards all though "almost" as good performace wise as the nvidia are just not worth the headache.

[Tombs]

I am severely regretting my ATI HD 4870 1GB purchase. After a month or two of working fine it stopped letting games go into my monitor's native resolution.

[Gurblash]

Since the voodoo cards ATI's drivers have sucked ass. Anyone I know running an ATI card are using 3rd party drivers.

[genocyde]

Been running ATI cards since as long as I can remember, never used a 3rd party software or driver on them and have never had a driver/software issue. Did have 2 9800 fans burn out and trash the card but ATI made good on replacing so I stuck with them. I have two friends that think I'm insane running ATI but over the years their NVidia cards last about 3/4 as long and have 10X the problems. I guess I'm just lucky... or someone is switching our cards at the UPS hub.

[Kang]

Been running ATI cards since as long as I can remember, never used a 3rd party software or driver on them and have never had a driver/software issue. Did have 2 9800 fans burn out and trash the card but ATI made good on replacing so I stuck with them. I have two friends that think I'm insane running ATI but over the years their NVidia cards last about 3/4 as long and have 10X the problems. I guess I'm just lucky... or someone is switching our cards at the UPS hub.

What ATI card are you running now? It might just be the 4800 series that is causing people grief. The card I bought that would not work out of the box is the 4850x2. I have an older ATI card (x1600 or some such) that has worked beautifully for several years now.

[Mikey]

Quality wise I think ATI skimps on their fans and they die out relatively early (2-3 years). Nvidia is also (for the most part) better at writing drivers (imo/experience).

That being said, i'm running a 4890 right now. Got it for 239 w/ $20 MIR and is a good overclocker. The difference really changes from year to year. I try to alternate between companies... whenever one of them lags behind we tend to get price raped by the industry leader.

[SilverSlice]

nvidia after what i understand so far got histical speaking better success at graphic cards atleast
less problems vs wow to