New Graphics Card

[Teris]

I've been looking around for a new graphics card since my ATI 5870 started kindly giving me artifacts. I've got about £200-250 to spend on a card and I just dont know what to go for...

I'm very open to multiple cards and can support CrossfireX and SLI on my board and have a strong enough power supply; I also have no real prefrence between ATI and Nvidia.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Cheers all!

 

[Kage]

If the max you can spend is 250, you can afford the Geforce 570 (4 quid above budget at £254), but the Geforce 560ti is still a good card at a figure of around £180, and seems to only differ by around 10fps from what I can figure:
GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 570 – Performance Comparison Benchmarks @ Hardware Compare

The AMD (ATI) 6950 is well within your budget also, at around £230.

GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 6950 – Performance Comparison Benchmarks @ Hardware Compare

The 560ti seems to be beat it however in quite a few games by the looks of that, at least in real world terms.

If I were you, I would save some cash, and get the 560ti

 

[Teris]

Cheers Kage. I will ponder on your recomendations, might well be the 560ti i go for.

 

[Indigo]

I second the 560 Ti recommendation. The 6950 just doesn't have enough consistent performance for me to recommend it over the Ti 560. Both are fine cards however.