The Help Pike Get a New Graphics Card Thread

[Slothy]

As someone who grabbed a 560 Ti back in October I would second that recommendation. It may not be top of the line, but it is a beast.

Before I got it when my 8800 GTS 512mb was still running strong I tried playing a newly released L4D2 level which had tons of running water at the start and saw my frame rate slow to a crawl. I then learned that, for some reason, the game had all of it's settings maxed including things like 16x AA and AF which is kind of absurd and it made no sense for it to change the settings on its own, but I digress. Once I popped in the new card I decided to try that level, and pretty much every other game I had at the absolute maximum. It laughed at my attempts to break it and kept chugging along happily. In older stuff like CS: Source or L4D2, it was happy to run with every setting maxed and still put out frame rates in the 150+ range without really breaking a sweat. Newer games were well above 30 with settings pretty much maxed.

I don't know about you, but there's not much I find more satisfying sometimes than testing a new card with stuff that made an old card tit its pants and having no issues.