Video card

[hgtonyvi]

What are good HD graphic cards recommended for aces high with hi res pack or the max res even if the new update comes out.

[68valu]

What are good HD graphic cards recommended for aces high with hi res pack or the max res even if the new update comes out.

what can your system handle?

[BaldEagl]

If you're building it (from the other thread) look in the $200 range and you should find something that fits your build and budget.  If you're adding it to a pre-built you might also need a new power supply or you might be upgrading for nothing if there's a bottleneck elsewhere in the system.

[hgtonyvi]

Give me a list of some good ones. So far the system has core i5 CPU with a 1TB hard drive with 16gb of ram all I need is a good HD graphic card. It has PCI, PCI 2.0 and PCI 3.0 x16 slots.

[BaldEagl]

Give me a list of some good ones. So far the system has core i5 CPU with a 1TB hard drive with 16gb of ram all I need is a good HD graphic card. It has PCI, PCI 2.0 and PCI 3.0 x16 slots.

Go to newegg.com.  Look at the graphics cards and sort by top rated.  Look at those in that price range and see what you find then got to tomshardware.com and compare the ones you find on their performance charts.  Tom's also posts a monthly list of best cards for the money by price range.

I personally prefer Nvidia cards but others swear by ATI.  EVGA generally has the best warranties in the business on Nvidia cards and are very customer friendly.

[Brooke]

I'd probably get an nVidia GTX 750 Ti if I were buying a new card now.

[Rich46yo]

I buy only from B&H video. If theres a problem they take it back without a restocking fee. ANY problem, even if you dont like the color of the thing. If the price of the card drops within 30 days of them selling it to you they refund the difference to you.

Try getting that from New Egg. Probably the worst company I ever dealt with. Their prices arent all that good either.

[hgtonyvi]

I need recommendations of what video cards to look at. Brooke already gived me one option.

[olds442]

I need recommendations of what video cards to look at. Brooke already gived me one option.

Find a second hand 660ti, thats what I use and this system will play ANY game maxed out today in 1080p. Find a used one and its really cheap.

Also as a note don't get the video cards with the fancy coolers and different PCB layouts than reference. Most of them besides a select few are really just terrible. I prefer EVGA or ASUS for nvidia, EVGA is the only company to make reference nivida cards nowadays. For AMD you almost always need a third party manufacture due to AMDs terrible cooling that sounds like a jet airplane.

[Brooke]

I've had good luck with Gigabyte NVidia cards.  I'd be willing to try MSi as well.  I've tried BFG, XFX, and EVGA in the past, but not recently.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I'd probably get an nVidia GTX 750 Ti if I were buying a new card now.

Yep it's a good card for low budget builds because it can run with a very anemic power supply. But if one wants to build a mid or higher end gaming box he'll need a 760 or a 770. Bitcoin mining has pushed the Radeon 290 series price up so much that Nvidia is a bargain currently.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Find a second hand 660ti, thats what I use and this system will play ANY game maxed out today in 1080p. Find a used one and its really cheap.

Also as a note don't get the video cards with the fancy coolers and different PCB layouts than reference. Most of them besides a select few are really just terrible. I prefer EVGA or ASUS for nvidia, EVGA is the only company to make reference nivida cards nowadays. For AMD you almost always need a third party manufacture due to AMDs terrible cooling that sounds like a jet airplane.

The fancy coolers improve your cards cooling so you don't have a hoover running under your desk 24/7 while playing.

[olds442]

The fancy coolers improve your cards cooling so you don't have a hoover running under your desk 24/7 while playing.

They also can cause rattling fans (in the case of my friends 7870 from sapphire which had rattling fans and stopped working one day and had to be RMAed but was damaged in shipping and thats his fault now i guess)
And they also can be made with terrible parts (in the case of someone I knew on a minecraft server in which his MSI twin frozzer 760 which had a capacitor blow up, so much for "military class caps")
And my galaxy 560ti that would get up to 100*C (or atleast thats what the temperature program maxed out at) and had fans running 4000 RPM constantly but galaxy said it was my fault because it was running on "bad power supply" (seasonic 850w is bad now i guess). Finally when that card gave out I pulled it apart and did a delid on it. Turns out the TIM between the actual GPU die itself and the IHS was not even installed. (not talking about heatsink TIM and GPU IHS here)
Example of what a delid is(on a i5 4670k):



So far my old "Junk" reference 660ti from EVGA has been working fine for a year solid now. (which btw the fan never goes over 2000 RPM in any game and temps never over 70*C)

The only company I have not heard bad about is ASUS and EVGA so im with them.

[Brooke]

The only company I have not heard bad about is ASUS and EVGA so im with them.

I'll have to give you a couple then, just out of fairness to every other brand on the market. 

I had to return two EVGA cards because they both had capacitors broken off the cards when I received them.  The first one I returned to Newegg and requested a replacement, and they sent it.  Same problem (and not the same card sent back to me).  Next one I sent back and requested a replacement, they just refunded my money so that I could pick something else.  I got an XFX version of the same card, and it worked fine.  These were not "open box" deals but simply damaged during shipping because of the worst product package I've ever seen.  I strongly suspect EVGA cards don't have packaging like that anymore.

[eagl]

Go big or go home...  Get an Nvidia 780 Ti