gotta buy vid card,,,TONITE!

[Coronado]

EVGA 768-P3-1362-AR GeForce GTX 460 ..anyone using it??  thoughts?

[Coronado]

or... your opinion on the best $150 and lower card.

[cattb]

The 460 2 year warranty is at 150 without rebate(192 bit and 798 ram), otherwise your looking at ATI 5830, 5850, 6850 or a 460 fermi.The superclocked at newegg I think is 179 after rebate with 1gb ram and 256 bit.(this one is lifetime warranty)

I dont own any of them, goodluck.

charts http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

[Coronado]

sooooo  the AR being lifetime warranty and the TR a two year warranty is a myth?

[Coronado]

Their warranty confuses me,,, 30 day warranty??/  what about the manufact, warranty?

[Coronado]

n/m...found it

[Coronado]

XFX HD-685X-ZDFC Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity  This has possibilities.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150515

[Spite]

I was looking at the 6850's myself recently.  That XFX card looks great and you can't beat their double lifetime warranty.  It is an AMD reference 775MHz clock for the 6850.

MSI has overclocked version and you can read a review and compare reference clocks, the MSI shipping clock of 860MHz, and the extra overclocking headroom of up to 1GHz still available here.  The overclocks put this thing into the 6870 and GeForce 470 range of cards.

Essentially the same price.  But hard to beat the XFX warranty and I'm sure it would overclock quite well should you wish to.

Another good thing about the 6850's, as noted in the Tom's Hardware review of the 6950 and 6970, 2 of these 6850's in Crossfire can match and generally beat any currently shipping top end card for a substantially reduced price.

[Flench]

I'm in the market for a video card too but not sure about the warranty . If you overclock it don't that take away the warranty ?

[Spite]

For some manufacturers, yes.  The MSI card I referenced is already overclocked and without looking into their warranty, as long as you don't go past that you would be fine.

XFX on the other hand has a double lifetime, overclocker friendly, warranty.  One reason I really like XFX.

From their tech support dept:

"Overclocking wont void your warranty, as long as the card isnt physically damaged or modified, and there are no BIOS modifications it will not effect warranty. - Erik"

[SectorNine50]

XFX for the win!

The 6-series ATi (err, I guess it's under the name AMD now) cards are flipping rad.

[cattb]

I have been looking at cards also. I am still stuck between the 6850 and the 460. Both reference cards (stock) will overclock.Both cards are very close together in performance. If anyone does get a 460 or 6850 please post pros or cons of the card here.

Sidenote newegg and amazon have xfx cards with a rebate.

[Krusty]

Skip the 6000 series. Get a 5850 instead. More power.

[usvi]

The MSI GTX 460 I just installed is outstanding so far.It runs at 30c at idle and the highest it ever gets is 58c playing DX11 games at ultra high settings.The fan never tops 50% speed on full load and is so quiet I can't hear it over my case fans(my EGVA 9800gt sounded like a leaf blower).I haven't overclocked more than it is already yet but there is plenty of potential.The MSI afterburner program is MUCH better than EVGA precision.Frame rates are greatly improved compared to my 9800gt.It only has a three year warranty but you will probably upgrade before then anyways. I've had no driver issues or other problems,so all things considered I couldn't be happier with this card.

http://www.directron.com/460gtxcy1gd5oc.html

[Doctahg]

EVGA has a lifetime warramty all all cards no matter what..and you can use Afterburner with them..i do...that actuallly voids your warranty! lol