Where's my vid card stand vs upgrading?

[biff]

Seems like forever ago I made my sig but I'm STILL running the comp in my sig. I kinda game in fits and spurts, usually during the winter months when it's too cold to woodwork out in the garage, so I have some games to catch up on this year. I want to get the new COD and look into SC2 as well, possibly others. I still have a GTX 280 and am considering an upgrade, but I'm sort of looking for a reference point. Obviously the new hardware is going to be an upgrade but how much? I don't want to buy a new card just to find out its more of a 'sidegrade'.

If I were to make a move I'd prefer to go with an ATI. I'm not a fanboy but they seem to run AutoCAD MUCH better than the nVidia's without getting into specialized cards. The 6850's and 6870's are certainly within reach but are they a significant increase over what I have now to justify the cost?

[Arinoth]

I can tell you about the 6870. I absolutely love the card, typically i am running it crossfire eyefinity however with my motherboard on rma i am using an e6400 that only has one pci-e slot. This means i'm running eyefinity on one 6870 and it still runs great. Highly recommend the card as an upgrade from the 280 as it'll give you more horsepower as well as DX11.

[GT7R]

My personal opinion - if the 280 still does the job, keep it.
About COD & SC2, I've ran them beautifully on my friend's rig with a 260(at 1920/1200), so if your other programs run fine, and you work on lower resolutions than 2650/1920, upgrading would seem as a bit of a waste.

[YukonTrooper]

COD and SC2? No need to upgrade. Also no need to upgrade for many other games. If you plan on catching up on titles released over the past few years, more reason not to upgrade.

[Delavan]

I want to get the new COD

Well, sorry for you...it's crap. I regret buying it. Lots of servers on both the PC and console versions of the game are CRASHING...Treyarch/Activision/Gameservers.com haven't been honest enough to come out and tell everybody that they're conscious and they'll fix it.

On top of that, there is mappack coming up, and they'll charge the PC gamers $15 for the maps...no more free maps for Call of duty(even for the PC version)!!!!

Your system is MORE THAN ENOUGH to play Blackops...don't upgrade for that!

Proof!!!!!!!!

Contemporary Graphics Cards in Call of Duty: Black Ops

Contemporary Graphics Cards in Call of Duty: Black Ops - X-bit labs

[GT7R]

On the subject of COD, I second Delavan's opinion, I think MW - WaW - MW2 were MUCH better...

[Slik]

Originally Posted by biff

Seems like forever ago I made my sig but I'm STILL running the comp in my sig. I kinda game in fits and spurts, usually during the winter months when it's too cold to woodwork out in the garage, so I have some games to catch up on this year. I want to get the new COD and look into SC2 as well, possibly others. I still have a GTX 280 and am considering an upgrade, but I'm sort of looking for a reference point. Obviously the new hardware is going to be an upgrade but how much? I don't want to buy a new card just to find out its more of a 'sidegrade'.

If I were to make a move I'd prefer to go with an ATI. I'm not a fanboy but they seem to run AutoCAD MUCH better than the nVidia's without getting into specialized cards. The 6850's and 6870's are certainly within reach but are they a significant increase over what I have now to justify the cost?

If I were you I would stay with Nvidia. The 280 GTX is an excellent card and should do you well until the prices of the 500 series drop a bit. The reviews I have read say that the 500 series card kicks the crap out of Radeon high end cards. IMHO.

[biff]

Originally Posted by Delavan

Well, sorry for you...it's crap. I regret buying it.

Well that's disappointing!!

Thanks for the advice. I'll sit tight on the 280 for now. Maybe I'll clock it up a bit.

[kendallcschm]

Originally Posted by biff

Well that's disappointing!!

Thanks for the advice. I'll sit tight on the 280 for now. Maybe I'll clock it up a bit.

stick with what you have now for a bit longer and buy the 6990 when it comes out

[geokilla]

PSM was the other way around for Black Ops. They said it was the best CoD game to date, even better than MW. Of course, everyone is subject to their own opinion.

@OP. You're running a GTX 280... I'm running at 9600GT. No need for you to upgrade lol