Best GFX for $250.00

[mikeysg]

Well right now, I am not picky. I will take any company. I just want it to perform well without major driver issues or overheating. That's it. I don't care if it's not Nvidia anymore.

The thing is, our opinion of any brand is often colored by our experience with them. I have 2x HD7970 3GB in CFX, as well as a HD6950 @HD6970 spec, and I have had no major issue with AMD driver (minor ones every now and then, yes). Same goes with the nV cards I have, like the aforementioned GTX560 Ti + GTX460 768MB (PhysX) which ran just about every game I threw at it....except for one, BulletStorm which simply refused to start since it kept insisting my PhysX driver was outdated, and I had the latest instally at the time. I did not crap about it as I could run the game on my oter rigs.

Now, I think you should be prepared to encounter an issue or two every now and then, it is just part and parcel of dealing with these vid cards, be it nV or AMD. Just like the HD7850, some have had issues with games, other said it ran perfectly with the same games. What works for most, may not work for some.....c'est la vie.

[kujoe2002]

Well I have narrowed it down to 4. I have made the exception to bump up my price. Out of the 4 listed below, which one would you get? Mind you that I only have a 750W PSU.

MSI N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II/OC GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

XFX Double Df HD-695X-CDFC Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express

GIGABYTE GV-R785OC-2GD Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDC

MSI R6950 Twin Frozr II OC Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16

Now I will be getting a new mobo:
Biostar TZ68K+ Intel Z68 ATX DDR3 1333

with new CPU, etc. I think there is one video card with 2.1 x16. Will that be a problem?