Advice on Video Card (mainly for 2.0)

[Kluya15]

being honest if your 250 is still running the game well right now i would offer one piece of advice. stay with it for just a bit and wait for a short time before upgrading. with the 600 series cards out the price on the 500 series cards will start dropping the closer we get to the holidays. i have the 580 cod factory overclocked edition and this card is a complete beast.

i guess it's more of why spend the amount now for a card when you could get a much better card for the same amount of cash in just a few months? if it's running fine now just hold off on the upgrade because the game will be going down soon for beta anyways and may as well get a better card for the same amount you will be spending now while it's down and be ready to put it to use once it comes back up.

That's very true, I suppose Black Friday is only a couple of months away, I could probably score really big if I wait till then.

[darkstarpoet1]

That's very true, I suppose Black Friday is only a couple of months away, I could probably score really big if I wait till then.

that was my line of thinking. right now on your budget you could get a card now, but by then you could probably at least get one series higher of a card for the same amount. if nothing else you could get the name brand of the series of card you are looking at now for that price with a much better warranty.

for example for the nvidia series cards i would never own anything other than evga even though it's a little more expensive. after the 260 i originally had in my computer fried from doing folding and the manufacturer refused to honor the warranty i looked into it more. i went with evga and got it's optional return warranty. i went through 2 more cards in the few years that followed and whenever i burnt out one card i called them and they had the replacement shipped to me and i packed up the old card and sent it back in the same box. after that service i will never own another manufacturer on my cards.