Recommendation for a graphics card

[Vader]

HD 4870 I would recommend for that price.
Great card for bang for buck, I've seen them as low as $169.99 USD and that's not even including the rebates.

 

[Marxo]

The card you have right now is still a very good card I have one and I am playing on it right now without and problems. If you are looking to upgrade anyways a 4870 is an awesome card but be sure you have the power supply, enough space cause technically its 2 GPU's in one , and the proper cooling/ventilation because it does heat up.

 

[S7R1K3R]

I checked out everything that everyone has posted.

But refering to whoever commented on m brother, he says its just super laggy to play COD WAW. Like, the game glitches and sometimes wont load. Hes very tech savvy compared to me,

ANyways, i know when Starcraft 2 comes out, i might need a new card. I dont think the 9800 is in my favor, but those one from the links will do (cant believe new games are gonna run on 256 bit...)

 

[MasterJan]

I wud try to get the GTX 260. there are some places where you can get it for a low price.

 

[bigbaddabooma]

I checked out everything that everyone has posted.

But refering to whoever commented on m brother, he says its just super laggy to play COD WAW. Like, the game glitches and sometimes wont load. Hes very tech savvy compared to me,

ANyways, i know when Starcraft 2 comes out, i might need a new card. I dont think the 9800 is in my favor, but those one from the links will do (cant believe new games are gonna run on 256 bit...)

lag in WAW is just the game itself,treyarch for ya...
you wont need a new card for starcraft.
and games dont run in bits.

 

[Vader]

The card you have right now is still a very good card I have one and I am playing on it right now without and problems. If you are looking to upgrade anyways a 4870 is an awesome card but be sure you have the power supply, enough space cause technically its 2 GPU's in one , and the proper cooling/ventilation because it does heat up.

The dual GPU card is a HD 4870 X2 not a HD 4870 which is the single GPU card.

 

[Mars_Bar]

hmm... an 8800GTS is a pretty powerful gpu. I would just stick with that for a while. It is almost not worth upgrading yet.

I wholeheartedly agree. I went from an 8800GTX, to an 8800GTS (the X was having MASSIVE issues, and the one I received after RMAing had the same problem. had to be underclocked about 10% to not crash regularly on multiple rigs.) to a 4870x2, and by far, the GTS has been my favorite card. It's just hard to beat it bang for the buck, and there aren't a whole lot of titles out that are worth playing that it can't handle. If you wait, you'll be looking at a whole new lineup of cards that will push the prices down on the current mid-high end cards to the $125-200 range, making upgrading from the GTS a reasonable solution.