New Graphics card recommendation on par with GeForce 9800GT

[retroborg]

Until now I was using an Albatron Geforce 9800GT 512MB card which I bought for ~100euros back in 2009.
http://www.mwave.com.au/productarchive.asp?sku=42050318

What was good about this card is that it had a 256bit memory bus / interface and pretty much every 3D game played nice and fast on high graphics settings @1280x1024 resolution (Aliens VS Predator 3, Rage, Command & Conquer 3 & 4, Duke Nukem Forever, Black Mesa Half Life Mod, HL2, etc...)

How ever it got toasted the other day, so I now I want to buy a new graphics card of at least equivalent performance and similar price range to play the upcoming Doom 3 BFG and some of the upcoming games. (Preferably nvidia as their drivers are better)

I checked the current nvidia cards, but noticed that all the cards of that price even though they have better & faster GPUs and more & better video RAM (DDR5 / 1GB/2GB), their memory bus / interface goes only up to 128bit or 192bit the most, which I imagine will bottleneck these cards.

Also I noticed that none of the current GFX cards feature a TV-Out output to connect my old CRT TV via Scart or RCA and I don't want to have to buy a new LCD/TFT TV.

My PC specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo @2.4GHZ
4GB Ram @800MHZ
Windows 7 32Bit
19" 4:3 TFT Eizo S1931 Monitor @60HZ

So which card should I get to cover my above needs?

Thanks in advance.

[aedipuss]

depends on the slot type. agp, pci-e, or pci-e(2)?

[retroborg]

depends on the slot type. agp, pci-e, or pci-e(2)?

My motherboard Asus P5B-E:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5BE/#specifications

Features 1 x PCIe x16 slot to connect a GFX card on.

[jagabo]

Pretty much anything you buy now will outperform an old Geforce 9800 GT. Not perfect but a nice quick reference:

http://www.howtogeek.com/71315/the-how-to-geek-guide-to-getting-started-with-usenet/

[El Heggunte]

Pretty much anything you buy now will outperform an old Geforce 9800 GT. Not perfect but a nice quick reference:

The How-To Geek Guide to Getting Started with Usenet

Huh?

[jagabo]

LOL, I pasted the wrong URL. It should have been:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

[johns0]

I wouldn't trust that gpu benchmark since the 660ti is rated faster in most game benchmarks than the gtx580 and the 6990 is better than both.

http://pclinks.xtreemhost.com/video.htm

[jagabo]

Like I said, it's not perfect. But it should give him an idea what to expect from a modern card relative to his 9800GT. I don't know of any other benchmarks that are run over such a wide range of cards.

[johns0]

The link i provided shows tons of benchmarks and rating on video cards for the last 10 years.

[jagabo]

Ah, I just looked at the top of the page and saw about a dozen columns and thought it was just those cards. I'll add that page to my list of benchmark URLs. Thanks.

[johns0]

Also the gts 250 is the equivalent card to the 9800 gt,pretty well the same specs.Check newegg for deals on 280gtx and similar cards for a $100,much better than the 9800.

[aedipuss]

i'd believe videocardbenchmark over whatever xtremehost is supposed to be. passmark actually tests things, instead of only copying/pasting other peoples work.

[jagabo]

Yeah, but the do give links to lots of benchmarks run by others so it's still useful starting point.

[johns0]

I don't trust a benchmark that rates a gtx480 and gtx570 over a radeon 6990 by a large margin.

[retroborg]

I will upgrade Windows 7 Ultimate to 64bit at the same time when I buy the new card, so do you think I should get a 2GB Video card instead?

So after searching through various cards, I'm considering of getting one of the following 2:

1. Gainward GTX 560 Ti 1 GB 256bit
GPU Clockspeed: 822 Mhz
Memory Clock: 2004 Mhz
Shader Clock = 1645MHz
Cuda Cores = 384
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 52.5
Memory Bandwidth: 128.3 GB/s
http://www.getitnow.gr/prod/anabathmisi/kartes-grafikon/gainward-gtx-560-ti-gf-gtx-560...prod1030258pp/
http://www.gainward.com/main/vgapro.php?id=455&lang=en
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-560ti/specifications

2. EVGA GeForce GTX 460 FPB, 1024MB GDDR5 192bit
Free Performance Boost 823MHz Core Clock
Memory Clock = 2004 MHz (4008 MHz)
Shader Clock = 1646 MHz
Cuda Cores = 336
http://www.plaisio.gr/Computers/Hardware/SVGA/EVGA-GTX-460-FPB-PCI-Express-DDR5-1GB-VG...60-1GB-FPB.htm

Which I see is basically an overclocked version of the GTX 460 v2 1GB GDDR5
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-460/specifications

(I'm closer to the Gainward 560ti 1GB as the price seems to be good compared to the card's specs & performance)

So what is your opinion?

[johns0]

GTX 560 Ti is the better video card.Only get a 2gb version if you are a heavy gamer using high resolutions.

[lacywest]

Here are some to check out >>>
http://www.amazon.com/Asus-90-C1CM40-L0UAY00Z-GeForce-9800GT-512MB/dp/B001KEXIG8

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GeForce-9800-GT-Dual-Link-DVI-Video-Card-512MB-GDDR3-PCI-...item3a75e65000

I did have two 9800GT ... one was larger than the other and one stayed really cool and I sold the other to a friend who had a hard time keeping it cool and he brought it to me to modify it ... I should have stopped while I was a head ... I did have it running cool with an extra fan mounted on it but I tried something else and it got screwed up

I gave him mine and he has been happy with it.

I use a 9500GT and works just fine with DOOM 3 and plays Crysis 2 ... Max Payne 3 and Rage ... with no problems ... uses 1Gb of video memory and has a decent heatsink on it.

Alan Wade ... not so good ... I definitely need to upgrade to play it smoothly.

I connect mine to a Sony 32" HDTV using the component video connections.