What's the cool video card, these days?

[Slamz]

I think with the update to WW2O, it's time to update my video card. I have an nVidia 9800. I just upgraded to quad core and all that but didn't upgrade my video card at the time. I can still play fine but I had to twiddle some of the settings down.

So what's the hot thing now? GTX470? Or is that for crazy people and I should go one down?

[Fretty]

Is the graphical update really that demanding? I haven't seen what it looks like after the update.

[Slamz]

I was getting a slow-down when looking at a forest during heavy fighting. I turned some stuff down and the problem went away. I turned off the radial stuff (which I never really like anyway) and I forget what else. Nothing dramatic.

I sucked it up and got a GTX480 on the way home because I am a crazy person. (It came with a cool overclocking application that froze up my computer in the first 2 seconds...I am no longer overclocking it.) Now everything is full blast and it's smooth as can be.

The overclocking application also displays GPU % usage, temperature and fan speed, which is handy.

The card is a monster, by the way. I don't think my previous case would have fit it. It barely fit the 9800 and this card must be at least 2 inches longer.


It's frankly excessive for this game but meh. I bought the 9800 when it was new, which must have been about 2 years ago, so I figured it was time.

[Kakarat]

I suppose the lastest beast is the GTX480 .

If you want to go beefy and not upgrade for a few years(5). the reviews seem pretty awesome on this card.