Thanks for all the input guys, I think I'm going to go with a second hand 5850. The reasons are:
First, I don't game much so power consumption is really not an issue, most of the time I'm working with VM's and makefile which hardly use the GPU.
Second, I have no interest in going for the next best thing, or getting a new card. I generally use a graphics card for a year, before selling it and buying the current second gen card from owners who are looking to upgrade to the next upcoming First gen card.(users of 5XXX looking to upgrade to 7XXX for example). I don't see the point of owning cutting edge tech. You might call me naive but in my case it makes perfect sense, 5850 can max out any game @ 1440x900 and I'm not exactly a "gamer" either. I do prefer cards with some warranty though.
Third, with the money saved, I can buy BF3 and Skyrim. I can't wait to own that cloth map of Skyrim.
Fourth, I've heard that the 5850 is quite the over-clocker, so if by chance I need more performance, I can always over clock the card. Plus it supports DX11, so I'm covered there as well.
What would be a reasonable price for a second hand 5850 with atleast a year warranty left? Also I'll be okay with a 460GTX 1GB version.
Thanks again for all the valuable inputs.
Regards,
Rogues
First, I don't game much so power consumption is really not an issue, most of the time I'm working with VM's and makefile which hardly use the GPU.
Second, I have no interest in going for the next best thing, or getting a new card. I generally use a graphics card for a year, before selling it and buying the current second gen card from owners who are looking to upgrade to the next upcoming First gen card.(users of 5XXX looking to upgrade to 7XXX for example). I don't see the point of owning cutting edge tech. You might call me naive but in my case it makes perfect sense, 5850 can max out any game @ 1440x900 and I'm not exactly a "gamer" either. I do prefer cards with some warranty though.
Third, with the money saved, I can buy BF3 and Skyrim. I can't wait to own that cloth map of Skyrim.
Fourth, I've heard that the 5850 is quite the over-clocker, so if by chance I need more performance, I can always over clock the card. Plus it supports DX11, so I'm covered there as well.
What would be a reasonable price for a second hand 5850 with atleast a year warranty left? Also I'll be okay with a 460GTX 1GB version.
Thanks again for all the valuable inputs.
Regards,
Rogues
. I am looking for same hopefully someone wool trade my hd6770 with this card ;p