Justifying A GeForce GTX 275

[john19055]

The GTX 275 is a great card ,but with the prices of the ATI HD 4890 under $200 and some low as $170 ,IMO the HD 4890 is just a better deal.

[gstanford]

Perhaps your current card and monitor/tv are not handshaking correctly. You could try running through a HDMI switch box to see if that helps. its worth a try.

http://www.curtpalme.com/HDMI_Switch.shtm

http://www.curtpalme.com/MUX-HD.shtm

[Blacklash]

Honestly, guys I've tested games with SLi off and a GTX 260 Core 216 @ about 660|2300 pushes everything well @ 1920x unless you are running very high levels of AA. Yes, there are exceptions like if you try to run Crysis all VH. You could do it fine with a mix of VH and High though.

I'd say buy what you like. You aren't going to feel the FPS difference between a stock 275 and an overclocked HD 4890.

If you get the 275 if leaves the door open for SLi and PhysX. Again, I've had way better luck with nVidia multi-GPU. With Crossfire; profiles were late, sometimes they'd break old game profiles with new drivers, and I had more odd graphics glitches with it. Also I like that nVidia lets you assign your rendering mode; AFR1, AFR2, or SFR.

The above isn't the "objective truth", I'm just relating my experiences and opinion.

[BelligerentBill]

Hey does anyone here have one of those AMD/ATI 4890 cards and play the game Titan Quest or Titan Quest Immortal Throne? I would like to see a screenshot of the game in action in an area with alot of shadows with the game quality settings maxed out with a resolution of 1680x1050 or 1440x900. In the ATI Control Panel no AA but AF at 16x.

I'm curious to see if ATI has implemented better shadowing techniques since I last owned an ATI card because I will have a friend of mine buy a 4890 if they have. I'm going to be building him a PC and would certainly like to save him a few bucks on the video card and opt for a faster processor and better motherboard.

Thanks in advance if anyone has the means to produce a screenshot of this.

Note: the shadowing issues I had were not game specific, but in this game it really detracted from my enjoyment of the game which is why I would like it as a reference point.

I probably could and might still request this on an ATI centric forum but I thought I could kill two birds with one stone here :cool:

[BelligerentBill]

I wonder if our ATI fanboi's are still around.... they should run and hide

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1027/1/

LOLZ

[Mr Bigman]

Im gonna buff em.

I heard this card was the best for the money atm.

I was going to get em to save some dollor bill but oh well.