Video Card advice

[Rayner]

Hi, I hope I can get some good advice here.

I am planning on upgrading my video card to a Ati 7850. I was planning on waiting to buy it until after New Years, but I needed to sell my Ati Radeon 5770 on ebay sooner rather than later so I could get a good price on it, which was $51 by the way!    I WAS hoping for $60, but can't win them all I guess.

Anyone here have any experience with the 7850? It seems like a great card with an excellent rating.    I am hoping there are a handful of gamers here that have experience with this.

Thanks,

[zynx33]

I have a 7850, I love it. I play games on high, and even some on ultra. Great card for the money.

[Rayner]

Decided to buy the 7870 since the GPU runs over 1GHZ as opposed to the standard 860mhz of the 7850.  It was only about 17 dollars more.  I am hoping it was worth it.

Thanks for replying to me Zynx.  I appreciate your advice! 

[ZenPhire]

those are great cards, though I think the 79x are better value. I want an nvidia this time around but those ATI cards are so damn good at this point. Better compute. I wish they had a solid S3D solution. Anyone know the current state of linux drivers for each?

[zynx33]

those are great cards, though I think the 79x are better value. I want an nvidia this time around but those ATI cards are so damn good at this point. Better compute. I wish they had a solid S3D solution. Anyone know the current state of linux drivers for each?

Amd cards are getting a 50% boost with the kernel in linux, so I heard from the AMD facebook page.

[Rayner]

My new video card is great.  By selling older components, I pretty much bought this card for $50.   

[ZenPhire]

Right on man! =) I'm gonna go for the 760 or 7950 I think. Still deliberating. So many choices, cuz also deciding on a C6100 (96vcores, 96GB ram). Plus whole new build. I only upgrade once every 5 years, so when I do I deliberate like crazy.

[Rayner]

Whoa...lol   

[zynx33]

I'm getting a i5-3570k in a couple months, along with a asrock z77 mobo so I can overclock and crossfire if I want, though I will probably get a 780 before I crossfire my 7850

[ZenPhire]

Smart choice on the CPU zynx.

[zynx33]

Smart choice on the CPU zynx.

Actually going for a 3770k now, managed to cut back on the case cost and squeezed it in there.