Question about Video Cards and PCSX2

[Bositman]

Yeah obviously something that costs 50% more is better The point was the best choice at his price range. I believe a 5670 would be a fine choice as well.

[iakoboss7]

Yeah obviously something that costs 50% more is better The point was the best choice at his price range. I believe a 5670 would be a fine choice as well.

i agree there too. he gets the latest technology available at a low price that means he will be secured for everything in future, even if that is pc gaming or pc aplications or even pcsx2 (who knows what our developers someday create O.O )

[wagnas]

My Asus GT240 runs all games that support hardware mode pretty well. GT220 is a bit slower, but I am sure it will be enough.

[Bositman]

The GT240 has double the steam/cuda processors (96) compared to GT220 so that's not a bit slower. Plus just because it runs the games you own, doesn't mean it runs all games well, it's very possible the games you have don't stress the GPU a lot.

[boogerthe2nd]

It's kind of like the case of an 8800GT vs an 8600GT. You just can't compare the performance of the former with the later, even if the numbering sequence only differs by 2.

[Alfer]

Price stepping makes it so hard to buy a video card on a budget! haha.

You say "I'm going to spend $X" on a card. You do your research, and find that you can get Y% more performance for $X+20. Then you find out you can wait a paycheck and add another $20 and get Z% more performance, and at this point you realize you can have nearly double the video card for ~$40 more...

[diegochiha]

the gt240 is enough if you dont want to play super-high quality-using higher resolutions,and i mean really higher,beacuse as i can see this card can handle good resolutions pretty well.And for the most gpu dependant game this should be enough in native i think

[Shadow Lady]

GT240 is not a good choice, it's more expensive and weaker than a 9600gt and about as expensive as the 9800gt (which is also faster than the 9600gt also so making the GT 240 just weaker...er), only thing the GT240 has going for it is the DX 10.1 support but that isn't really that great for most stuff... and even if it was the GDDR5 one (the GDDR3 are more common I suppose) it would still be weaker, really not a good choice.

In the end it's up to how much asboxxx wants to spend anyway but going for the 9800gt isn't bad :P

[diegochiha]

sorry i miss one small detail,here in my country the 9800 costs 100 more dollars than the gt240,so here the gt240 is a great choice

[asboxxx]

thanks for all the replies guys
but i decided to go for a 9800GT(1GB) for the price of 100$.
The alternative was a GT260 which (tell me if I'm wrong) has more or less the same "quality" of a gt9800 but..it costs 180$.