Gaming Video Card Help

[rapol]

Looking to get a new video card.

My current one is a 8600 GT and I bought it in late Oct 2007 to play Team Fortress 2 with.

I currently still play TF2 all the time, but have noticed how slow games like Fallout 3 and Bioshock run on it(plus I am getting ready to gt Bioshock 2).

I've taken a screen shot of my current hardware so you can see what I have and what would would well with what I have.(http://imgur.com/Nm1Pk.jpg)

I would just like the price to be around $200 to $250.

I don't need anything super fantastic, just something that like my current one might not need a serious upgrade for a year and a half or so.

 

[67birdman]

It might be because of your processor, AMDs are not good for gaming, generally.

 

[Deleted member 35947]

The ATI 4870 or 4850 is pretty decent for the price it is. If you're after a DX11 card you should be looking at the ATI 5XXX series, though some of them are more expensive. The cheaper ones wouldn't be as good with directx10 as the 4870.

 

[playallday]

Get any of the 48xx cards, whichever is cheaper (most of the time it's the 4850).