Looking for a Good Video Card

[wfj]

Hmmm. What about the 448 that's on Tony's recommended hardware?
http://www.amazon.com/MSI-N560GTX-Ti-44 ... cx86com-20

There seem to be a number of people using that card with success. The example above looks like an isolated incident. I'm not sure I'd sweat it too much.

Okay. I just looked at your Golden Build #2, and saw the 570, which I found to be only about $35 more than the 560Ti. Would it be worth the extra money and offer possibly more stability?

I haven't had any issues with it and you'll likely find more people with the 570 since the 448 core 560ti was a limited production run.

 

[MechSoup]

If you are wanting to spend ~$275 for the 560 Ti 448, for a couple more dollars you can get a Superclocked 570.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130620

 

[danielu13]

If you are wanting to spend ~$275 for the 560 Ti 448, for a couple more dollars you can get a Superclocked 570.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130620

That's what I was thinking. Is there much difference between that one and the one that I linked to (the recommended hardware one)?

 

[MechSoup]

If you are wanting to spend ~$275 for the 560 Ti 448, for a couple more dollars you can get a Superclocked 570.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130620

That's what I was thinking. Is there much difference between that one and the one that I linked to (the recommended hardware one)?

Here are some benchmarks for the two:
560 Ti 448
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gef ... ,3082.html
570 SC
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/ha ... eview.html

For another $5 after rebate, I would go with the 570 SC.

 

[adanac]

I'm following this thread out of interest - am currently running a GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 with on-board graphics but want to enable two monitors, and some of my photo editing software misses having a secondary GPU - it doesn't take advantage of the on-chip GPU.

I'm also not keen on the occasional artifacts that show up with the on-board graphics setup.

I've got two Dell U2412M monitors which have DVI and DisplayPort but no HDMI.

I was going to upgrade the kids Windows gaming machine with a better card and move theirs to mine, but it's a 2 DVI only connection on the back of a GTX 460. This would still be my preference if it is possible... but I think I spotted somewhere that two DVI aren't supported on Lion. True or not?

 

[danielu13]

I'm following this thread out of interest - am currently running a GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 with on-board graphics but want to enable two monitors, and some of my photo editing software misses having a secondary GPU - it doesn't take advantage of the on-chip GPU.

I'm also not keen on the occasional artifacts that show up with the on-board graphics setup.

I've got two Dell U2412M monitors which have DVI and DisplayPort but no HDMI.

I was going to upgrade the kids Windows gaming machine with a better card and move theirs to mine, but it's a 2 DVI only connection on the back of a GTX 460. This would still be my preference if it is possible... but I think I spotted somewhere that two DVI aren't supported on Lion. True or not?

That's the same board I'm running with a 2600K. I had some artifacts for awhile, but it went away after updating to 10.7.3. I thought I remember somewhere that the 400 series cards were supported, but I'm not completely sure. Since you already have the card, you could always just try it.

 

[adanac]

I certainly can give it a try, but this blog entry suggests that maybe I'll still need to implement some other solution. Apparently Mountain Lion will enable two DVI ports for a dual display set-up. Or maybe there's another solution.

I don't have a DisplayPort cable (yet); I do know that a HDMI cable with what I assume is a passive HDMI to DisplayPort adapter on the end does not work.

As the board supports DisplayPort, as does the monitor, am I right in assuming that a straight through DisplayPort cable should at least bring up the second monitor off the on-board graphics port(s)?

If the GTX 460 could drive one monitor via DVI, and on-board graphics another via DisplayPort, and my photo editing tools used the GPU on the 460, I bet that'd be an acceptable enough solution for now until I can move both monitors to the 460.

If no one has tested this particular type of configuration I'll pick up a cable and check it out and report back.

 

[Gordo74]

If the GTX 460 could drive one monitor via DVI, and on-board graphics another via DisplayPort, and my photo editing tools used the GPU on the 460, I bet that'd be an acceptable enough solution for now until I can move both monitors to the 460.

If no one has tested this particular type of configuration I'll pick up a cable and check it out and report back.

That configuration will work.

 

[adanac]

Gordo, thanks, that'll be perfect.

I won't even tell my kids their gaming machine got an upgrade...

 

[danielu13]

If you are wanting to spend ~$275 for the 560 Ti 448, for a couple more dollars you can get a Superclocked 570.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130620

That's what I was thinking. Is there much difference between that one and the one that I linked to (the recommended hardware one)?

Here are some benchmarks for the two:
560 Ti 448
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gef ... ,3082.html
570 SC
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/ha ... eview.html

For another $5 after rebate, I would go with the 570 SC.

I was thinking about the difference between the 570 SC and Tony's 570 (Amazon) sorry for the confusion.