New VGA...nv8500

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by HFC_Dolphin

Hi guys!

Unfortunately my old 6800ultra crashed and I need to get a new VGA.
Since I intent to seriously upgrade my system only after SoW is out (I do not play any other game besides some chess, mahjong...lol), I was thinking of this card: MSI NX8500GT-TD256EH/D2 256MB PCI-E RETAIL

Is anyone using it?
Anyone knows if it's a decent card for 1946?
Any known issues with it?

Thank you!

Hm, it's difficult to find a nice card, and in the midrange that seems to be getting worse, lots of nice cards, at nice prices, and no very clear ranking system.

I tend to use a couple of sites when I'm comparing cards. I hope it's okay to post links:

A review site which has a rate nifty compare two cards page (this is the front page, you have to click card database, then pick a comparison, then you can use the dropdown selection to pick cards to compare). They have data on a lot of cards:

http://www.gpureview.com/

The monthly gpu chart at the end of Tom's Hardware's best graphics card feature. You need to go to the front page and renew your bookmarks for this every month:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...rd,2033-7.html

I'm sure someone will have posted these here before somewhere, but I don't know where, and it seems the original poster might not.